The invention relates to a iris location method based on border point search and SUSAN edge detection, wherein the method using projection method first, to do and horizontal gray projection for binary iris image filled by spot, obtain rough center of pupil; through vertical scanning gray curve, to find a point which gray value is greater than a threshold value as internal border point of iris; circle fitting a series of the internal border points, thus obtaining location information of inner edge of the iris; Through SUSAN edge detection method, to cause the situation of obvious external border of the iris characteristic solved well, through direction detection, obtaining radius of external border of the iris, and location information of external border of the iris accurately; locating external border of the iris through the SUSAN edge detection method outside edge of the iris position is a feature of the invention, comparing with general two-step iris location method, positioning accuracy rate of the invention is enhanced by 5 percentage, and the speed of the same is enhanced by 40 percent.