Name Key Information Year Source Reference Owner
Monozygotic / Non-monozygotic (MZ/NMZ) Iris Dataset It contains 1,615 iris images organized as 11,907 monozygotic pairs (images of different irises of same individual) and 11,907 non-monozygotic pairs (images of irises of unrelated persons). 2025 Access Link Cite University of Notre Dame
ND-NBSI-2025 Dataset The ND-NBSI-2025 Dataset consists of 1,000 iris images synthesized by a model trained to mimic near-infrared iris images captured from infants. 2025 Access Link Cite University of Notre Dame
Synthetic Forensic Iris (UND-SFI-2024) Dataset The data is categorized into 18 disjoint ranges of PMI (Post-Mortem Interval). In each range, there are 10,000 images representing 1,000 non-existent identities. 2024 Access Link Cite Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Iris Super Resolution Dataset It contains 4,320 color iris images from 704 subjects (392 females and 312 males), with three images per eye per subject. 2023 Access Link Cite Computer Vision and Biometric Laboratory (CVBL), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan
LivDet-Iris-2023-Part1 It contains images of live (authentic) irises and images of irises synthetically-generated by deep learning-based generative adversarial networks. 2023 Access Link Cite University of Notre Dame
SBVPI Full dataset includes 16,717 RGB images. 2023 Access Link Cite University of Ljubljana
I-SOCIAL-DB This dataset is composed of 3,286 ocular regions, extracted from 1643 high resolution face images of 400 individuals. 2021 Access Link Cite Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Cross-Spectral Iris Images Database This database consists of total 12,540 iris images (209 ´ 2 ´ 2 ´ 15) which are acquired with 15 instances from 209 different subjects. 2017 Access Link Cite The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
ND-Iris-0405 Dataset It contains 64,980 iris images from 356 subjects (712 unique irises). 2016 Access Link Cite University of Notre Dame
LivDet-Iris 2013 (Warsaw Subset) It comprises 852 images of authentic eyes and 815 images of paper printouts used for presentation attacks. 2013 Access Link Cite Warsaw University of Technology
UBIPr The UBIPr dataset is a version of the UBIRIS.v2 set, with images cropped in a way that they cover wider parts of the ocular region than the original UBIRIS.v2 data. 2012 Access Link Cite University of Beira Interior
CASIA-IrisV3 The CASIA-Iris V3 dataset comprises 22,034 iris images with a resolution of 640*480 pixels. 2011 Access Link Cite CASIA
CASIA-IrisV4 It includes 54,601 images from 2,800 subjects distributed across six subsets: Interval, Lamp, Twins, Distance, Thousand, and Syn. 2011 Access Link Cite CASIA
IIT Delhi Iris Database (Version 1.0) It contains images captured in a controlled indoor environment and has been widely used for developing and testing iris recognition algorithms. 2010 Access Link Cite IIT Delhi
UBIRIS v2 It offers over 11,000 images captured at a distance (between four and eight meters) and on-the-move. 2010 Access Link Cite University of Beira
MMU-v1 It consists of 450 images obtained from 45 subjects. 2010 Access Link None Multimedia University (MMU)
ND-Iris-0405 It contains 64,980 iris images obtained from 356 subjects (712 unique irises) between January 2004 and May 2005. 2009 Access Link Cite The University of Notre Dame du Lac
UBIRIS v1 This dataset provides 1,877 images acquired under less constrained imaging conditions. 2005 Access Link Cite University of Beira
CASIA-IrisV2 It contains 2,400 images from 120 individuals, captured at a VGA resolution (640×480). 2004 Access Link Cite CASIA
CASIA-IrisV1 It contains 756 images from 108 subjects, captured at a resolution of 320×280. 2003 Access Link Cite CASIA