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Sankore

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Ethnicity and Biometric Uniqueness: Iris Pattern Individuality in a West African Database

2023IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity ScienceJournal

10.1109/tbiom.2023.3327287 Full text0 citations

Authors

4 authors across 3 institutions in 2 countries.

John DaugmanFirst author
Cathryn Downing
Oluwatobi Noah Akande
- Baze University (NG)
Oluwakemi Christiana AbikoyeSenior author
- University of Ilorin (NG)

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Biometric Identification and Securitylevel 3 · 1.00
Forensic and Genetic Researchlevel 3 · 0.97
Face recognition and analysislevel 3 · 0.92

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2023 · IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science · 0 citations
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Ethnicity and Biometric Uniqueness: Iris Pattern Individuality in a West African Database · Sankore