Periocular biometrics: An emerging technology for unconstrained scenarios

The periocular region has recently emerged as a promising trait for unconstrained biometric recognition, specially on cases where neither the iris and a full facial picture can be obtained. Previous studies concluded that the regions in the vicinity of the human eye - the periocular region- have surprisingly high discriminating ability between individuals, are relatively permanent and easily acquired at large distances. Hence, growing attention has been paid to periocular recognition methods, on the performance levels they are able to achieve, and on the correlation of the responses given by other. This work overviews the most relevant research works in the scope of periocular recognition: summarizes the developed methods, and enumerates the current issues, providing a comparative overview. For contextualization, a brief overview of the biometric field is also given.