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- Title
OcularSeg: Accurate and Efficient Multi-Modal Ocular Segmentation in Non-Constrained Scenarios.
- Authors
Zhang, Yixin; Wang, Caiyong; Li, Haiqing; Sun, Xianyun; Tian, Qichuan; Zhao, Guangzhe
- Abstract
Multi-modal ocular biometrics has recently garnered significant attention due to its potential in enhancing the security and reliability of biometric identification systems in non-constrained scenarios. However, accurately and efficiently segmenting multi-modal ocular traits (periocular, sclera, iris, and pupil) remains challenging due to noise interference or environmental changes, such as specular reflection, gaze deviation, blur, occlusions from eyelid/eyelash/glasses, and illumination/spectrum/sensor variations. To address these challenges, we propose OcularSeg, a densely connected encoder–decoder model incorporating eye shape prior. The model utilizes Efficientnetv2 as a lightweight backbone in the encoder for extracting multi-level visual features while minimizing network parameters. Moreover, we introduce the Expectation–Maximization attention (EMA) unit to progressively refine the model's attention and roughly aggregate features from each ocular modality. In the decoder, we design a bottom-up dense subtraction module (DSM) to amplify information disparity between encoder layers, facilitating the acquisition of high-level semantic detailed features at varying scales, thereby enhancing the precision of detailed ocular region prediction. Additionally, boundary- and semantic-guided eye shape priors are integrated as auxiliary supervision during training to optimize the position, shape, and internal topological structure of segmentation results. Due to the scarcity of datasets with multi-modal ocular segmentation annotations, we manually annotated three challenging eye datasets captured in near-infrared and visible light scenarios. Experimental results on newly annotated and existing datasets demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance in intra- and cross-dataset scenarios while maintaining efficient execution.
- Subjects
BIOMETRIC identification; HUMAN fingerprints; NEAR infrared radiation; SCLERA; IRIS (Eye); VISIBLE spectra; EYELASHES
- Publication
Electronics (2079-9292), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 10, p1967
- ISSN
2079-9292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/electronics13101967