Iris is the sphincter having flowery pattern around pupil in eye. The high randomness of the pattern makes iris unique for each individual, and hence a candidate for machine recognition of identity of an individual. The first part of the thesis investigates the bottlenecks of the existing localization approaches and proposes a morphological method of devising an adaptive binarization threshold for pupil detection, and also contributes in modifying conventional integrodifferential operator based iris detection using canny detected edge map. The review of related works on matching leads to the...