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Anatomy of Eyes
K RISTINA I RSCH , DAVID L. G UYTON
The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, The Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore,
MD, USA
Definition
The human eye is one of the most remarkable sensory
systems. Leonardo da Vinci was acutely aware of its
prime significance: The eye, which is termed the window of the soul, is the chief organ whereby the senso
comune can have the most complete and magnificent
view of the infinite works of nature [1]. Human beings
gather most of the information about the external
environment through their eyes and thus rely on sight
more than on any other sense, with the eye being the
most sensitive organ we have. Besides its consideration
as a window to the soul, the eye can indeed serve as
a window to the identity of an individual. It offers
unique features for the application of identification
technology. Both the highly detailed texture of the
iris and the fundus blood vessel pattern are unique to
every person, providing suitable traits for biometric
recognition.
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Anatomy of Eyes
Iris
The iris may be considered as being composed of
four different layers [3], starting from anterior to
posterior: (1) Anterior border layer which mainly consists of fibroblasts and pigmented melanocytes, interrupted by large, pit-like holes, the so-called crypts of
Fuchs; (2) Stroma containing loosely arranged collagen
fibers that are condensed around blood vessels and
nerve fibers. Besides fibroblasts and melanocytes, as
present in the previous layer, clump cells and mast
cells are found in the iris stroma. It is the pigment in
Anatomy of Eyes
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Retina
As seen in an ordinary histologic cross-section, the
retina is composed of distinct layers. The retinal layers
from the vitreous to choroid [2, 3] are: (1) Internal
limiting membrane, formed by both retinal and vitreal
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Anatomy of Face
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Anatomy of Face
A NNE M. B URROWS 1, J EFFREY F. C OHN 2
1
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Synonyms
Anatomic; Structural and functional anatomy
References
Definition
Introduction
Face recognition is a leading approach to person recognition. In well controlled settings, accuracy is comparable to that of historically reliable biometrics including
fingerprint and iris recognition [1]. In less-controlled
settings, accuracy is attenuated with variation in pose,
illumination, and facial expression among other factors.
A principal research challenge is to increase robustness
to these sources of variation, and to improve performance in unstructured settings in which image acquisition may occur without active subject involvement.
Current approaches to face recognition are primarily
data driven. Use of domain knowledge tends to be limited to the search for relatively stable facial features, such as
the inner canthi and the philtrum for image alignment,
or the lips, eyes, brows, and face contour for feature
extraction. More explicit reference to domain knowledge