... Article ID 980159, 13 pagesdoi:10.1155/2009/980159 Research Article A New User Dependent Iris Recognition System Based on an Area Preserving Pointwise Level Set Segmentation ApproachNakissa ... September-August 2006.[7] L. Ma, T. Tan, Y. Wang, and D. Zhang, “Personal identification based on iris texture analysis,” IEEE Transactions on PatternAnalysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, ... Snakes advantages overthe traditional object recognition algorithms, it has someimportant drawbacks, due to its Lagrangian -based formulas.In Snake model, contour initialization is a crucial...