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Therefore, the sclera vessels have been used as an important feature to improve the performance of identification recognition systems, for example, mobile payment and phone encryption system. But recent studies show that unsatisfactory sclera segmentation and tedious matching process are the two critical issues to degrade the performance of sclera identification system. In this paper, we propose a robust sclera recognition system with high accuracy and efficiency. First, a novel sclera segmentation method that provides adaptive threshold is proposed. Second, we have designed an improved vessels enhancement method based on the local grey distribution and local texture information, and least square linearization and moment invariants are utilized to extract features. Finally, an efficient matching strategy is put forward based on the detected significant vessels. 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