Iris recognizing preprocessing method based on grey level information

The invention provides a pretreatment method of iris images based on gray information. A rough circle center (xo, yo) of a pupil is located through binary, mathematical morphology, gray projection and other operations, the point, which has a gray value larger than T and the shortest distance to the (xo, yo), is searched at a plurality of lines close to the (xo, yo) from the center to the two sides as a pupil boundary point; the accurate circle center and the radius of the pupil can be located through curve fitting; the gray level first difference of the lines where the searched pixel points lie is calculated and the point with the largest value of the sum of the level first difference is searched in the range of places where iris external boundary point possibly appears and taken as the iris external boundary point; the accurate circle center and radius of the iris external boundary is obtained after curve fitting. The quality of iris image is judged through calculating point sharpness and number of effective pixel points according to the normalized image. The pretreatment method of iris images of the invention not only can decrease the time needed by repeated iteration during location, but also can judge the quality of iris image accurately and quickly according to the extracted iris image.