I found this pretty good list of Iris Recognition open-source codes. I am really appreciate work of the first author, thanhkien84. I asked myself, how to improve it? I have decided to add my value.
I have checked all links and found replacements for stale links to projects OSIRIS, UND.
In the year 2003 there was only one iris recognition open source code from Libor Masek. His source code, written in Matlab, has been the baseline for generations of iris recognition coders. Recently there are a number of new open source codes come up. They are more mature and meet state-of-the-art accuracy. I summarise them in a list here for your reference.
Iris recognition projects | <td rowspan="2">
<b>Year/ Language</b>
</td>
<td rowspan="2">
<b>Approach</b>
</td>
<td colspan="3">
<b>Performance (EER)</b>
</td>
| ICE 2005 | <td>
<b>MBGC portal</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>CASIA</b>
</td>
| Libor Masek [project] | <td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2003,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Matlab</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Hough Circle + 1D Log-Gabor</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">OSIRIS 4.1 [</span><a href="http://svnext.it-sudparis.eu/svnview2-eph/ref_syst/Iris_Osiris_v4.1/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">project dead link</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2013,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">C++</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Least square, Circle + 2D Gabor</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">1.09%</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">5455945</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">/</span><a href="https://github.com/5455945/Iris_Osiris"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Iris_Osiris</span></a></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">(OSIRIS 4.1 fork) </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support OpenCV3.0+,OpenCV2.4.13</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2017, C++</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Same as OSIRIS 4.1</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="https://github.com/vonclites/syris"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Python interface to OSIRIS Iris Segmentation and Recognition software </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">(OSIRIS 4.1 fork)</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2017, Python</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Same as OSIRIS 4.1</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">VASIR 2.2 [</span><a href="http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/vasir.cfm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2013,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">C++</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Circle + 2D Gabor</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">3.5%</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">13.9% best quality frame</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">30.6% all frames</span></td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">NonidealIRIS [project]</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2006,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Matlab</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ellipse + 2D, Gabor</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">USIT</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">[</span><a href="http://www.wavelab.at/sources/USIT/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2016,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">C++</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Circle/Ellipse+</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">1D Log Gabor/</span>
</p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2D Gabor/</span>
</p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">DCT/ SIFT/</span>
</p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">SURF/LBP</span></td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">0.82%</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">UND</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">[</span><a href="https://ideacenter.nd.edu/commercialization-engine/for-industry/available-technologies/software-available-for-license/iris-recognition-based-on-human-intrepretable-features/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2016,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Matlab</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Circle,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Crypts features</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">3.58%</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">1.39%</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="6">
<h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Iris segmentation only</span>
</h2>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">IrisSeg [</span><a href="https://github.com/cdac-cvml/IrisSeg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2017,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Matlab</span></td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ICB 2016</span>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">IrisSeg: A Fast and Robust Iris Segmentation Framework for Non-Ideal Iris Images</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">IAADseg</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">[</span><a href="http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/tvmiris.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2015,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Matlab</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Total-variation</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ICCV 2015</span>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">An Accurate Iris Segmentation Framework under Relaxed Imaging Constraints using Total Variation Model</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">IrisSeg</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">[</span><a href="https://github.com/sbanerj1/IrisSeg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">2015,</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Python</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Geodesic Active Contours and GrabCut</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">PSIVT 2015</span>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Iris Segmentation using Geodesic Active Contours and GrabCut</span>
</td></tr> </tbody> </table>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Iris datasets to consider:</span>
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<b>Dataset</b>
</td>
<td>
<b> Subset</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Number of</b></p>
<p>
<b>subjects</b></td>
<td>
<b>Number of</b></p>
<p>
<b>images</b></td>
<td>
<b>Spectrum</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Note</b>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="6">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">CASIA</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">CASIA-Iris-Thousand</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">10,000</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">20,000</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">NIR</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">CASIA-Iris-Interval</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Time lapse</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">CASIA-Iris-Lamp</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">CASIA-Iris-Twins</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">100</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Twin</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">CASIA-Iris-Distance</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">At a distance</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">CASIA-Iris-Syn</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">1000</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">10,000</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Synthesis</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="6">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ND</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ND-IRIS-0405</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">356</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">64,980</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">NIR</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ND-GFI</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Gender</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">NDCLD15</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">750 males</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">750 females</span></td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">3000</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">NIR</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Contact Lens</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ND-CrossSensor-Iris-2013</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">676</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">29,986 from LG4000 and 116,564 from LG2200</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">NIR</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Cross Sensor</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ND-TimeLapseIris-2012</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">23</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">6797</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Time lapse 2004 to 2008</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">ND-Iris-Template-Aging-2008-2010</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">11,776</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Time lapse 2008 to 2010</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">MBGC</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">NIR & NIR videos</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">One the move</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">UBIRIS</span>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">261</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">11,102</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Visible</span>
</td>
<td>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the move</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">At a distance</span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
<p>
</p>
<p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">My sources:</span>
</p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">
<a href="https://kiennguyenstuff.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/iris-recognition-open-source-codes/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Iris Recognition open-source codes</span></a>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">
<a href="https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-best-open-source-iris-recognition-libraries-available"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are some of the best open source iris recognition libraries available?</span></a>
</li>
</ol>
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