A widely popular idea in psychology and evolutionary science suggests that the distinctive look of the human eye—particularly the white area surrounding the iris—evolved to help us communicate ...

The iris, for all its intricacies, gets the attention of us eye doctors only when it causes problems for our patients.As a ...

This paper presented an iris recognition system in order to verify both the uniqueness of the human iris and also its performance as a biometric identification. A biometric system provides automatic ...

Textured contact lenses cause severe problems for iris biometric systems because they can be used to alter the appearance of iris texture in order to deliberately increase the false positive and, ...

Suffice to say, you may think you know iris, but there may be more than meets the eye. Matthew Stevens is the director and horticulture agent for N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Pitt County Center.