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Choosing the appropriate loss function to enhance discrimination power is one of the most significant factors in deep learning networks. This paper proposes a novel iris identification framework that integrates the light-weight MobileNet architecture with customized ArcFace and Triplet loss functions. By combining two loss functions, it is possible to improve the compactness within a class and the discrepancies between classes. To reduce the amount of preprocessing, the normalization step is omitted and segmented iris images are used directly. In contrast to the original SoftMax loss, the EER for the combined loss from ArcFace and Triplet is decreased from 1.11% to 0.45%, and the TPR is increased from 99.77% to 100%. In CASIA-Iris-Thousand, EER decreased from 4.8% to 1.87%, while TPR improved from 97.42% to 99.66%. Experiments have demonstrated that the proposed approach with customized loss using ArcFace and Triplet can significantly improve state-of-the-art and achieve outstanding results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a15040118","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,29]],"date-time":"2022-03-29T21:40:14Z","timestamp":1648590014000},"page":"118","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Boosting Iris Recognition by Margin-Based Loss Functions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8296-5505","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Reihan","family":"Alinia Lat","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51368, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8258-0437","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sebelan","family":"Danishvar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hamed","family":"Heravi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7939-9098","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Morad","family":"Danishvar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Adjabi, I., Ouahabi, A., Benzaoui, A., and Taleb-Ahmed, A. 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