IREX VI: Mixed-effects Longitudinal Models for Iris Aging: Response to Bowyer and Ortiz

Bowyer and Ortiz, in their paper “A Critical Examination of the IREX VI Results”, make seven criticisms of our application of linear mixed-effects models to longitudinally collected iris recognition Hamming Distances. We reject these as either irrelevant, misinterpretations or qualitatively correct but quantitatively irrelevant.