Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for identifying a living eye, in which IR LED lighting and lighting for varying the ambient illumination are installed on the front surface or one side of an iris recognition camera so as to determine whether an iris of an eye is an iris of a living eye when capturing an iris image by the iris recognition camera, using one or more criteria of whether the ratio of the sizes of the iris and pupil changes by the variation of the ambient illumination, whether the number or location of the IR LEDs focused on the iris and/or the pupil changes, whether the region of the iris image changes by eye blinking, and whether the direction of the gaze changes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for identifying a living eye, in which IR LED lighting and lighting for varying the ambient illumination are installed on the front surface or one side of an iris recognition camera so as to determine whether an iris of an eye is an iris of a living eye when capturing an iris image by the iris recognition camera, using one or more criteria of whether the ratio of the sizes of the iris and pupil changes by the variation of the ambient illumination, whether the number or location of the IR LEDs focused on the iris and/or the pupil changes, whether the region of the iris image changes by eye blinking, and whether the direction of the gaze changes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for iris recognition using multiple iris templates registered for each individual. The method include acquiring at least one or two eye images of a person to be registered; generating an iris template group for registration from the at least one or two eye images, and storing and registering the iris template group in a database; photographing an eye of the person using a camera placed on a front side of an iris recognition apparatus multiple times to acquire multiple images for authentication; generating an iris template group for authentication comprising multiple iris templates from the multiple eye images; comparing the iris template group for authentication with the registered iris template group for each registered person stored in the database; and performing authentication or identification using the comparison result.