AFHIRIS: African Human Iris Dataset (Version 1)

This dataset present a unique collection of iris imaes of African descent. It is the first publicly available human iris datasets of African descents. Three categories of images were collected from 1028 volunteers that participated in the data collection task. The first category is made up of four iris images that were captured when the volunteers used spectacles while the second category includes four sets of iris images captured when the volunteers are without spectacles. The third category is iris images obtained from volunteers that used lenses.