This paper proposes novel compressed sensing (CS) of colored iris images using three RGB iterations of basis pursuit (BP) with sparsity averaging (SA), called RGB-BPSA. In RGB-BPSA, a sparsity basis is performed using the average of multiple coherent dictionaries to improve the BP reconstruction. In the experiment, first, the decomposition level of wavelet is studied to analyze the best reconstruction result. Second, the effect of compression rate (CR) is considered. Third, the effect of resolution is investigated. Last, the sparse basis of SA is compared to existing basis, i.e., curvelet, Daubechies-1 or haar, and Daubechies-8. The superior RGB-BPSA over existing CS is shown by better visual quality with higher signal to noise ratio (SNR) and structural similarity (SSIM) index in the same CR. In addition, reconstruction time also investigated where RGB-BPSA outperforms curvelet and two times longer than haar and Daubechies-8.
INDEX TERMSCompressed sampling, basis pursuit (BP), sparsity averaging, iris images.