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John Daugman correctly summarized the state of forensic iris recognition circa 2006 for the book Forensic Human Identification: an Introduction [1]: Iris
George W. Quinn, James Matey, Patrick J. Grother, Edward Watters
In most current applications of iris recognition, matching is done by computer algorithms. The dominant algorithms are based on the work of John Daugman and are
This paper describes a dataset, IrisDaily-NIST, that is under construction by NIST. At the present, this dataset has (nearly) daily iris images of a single