The document discusses iris recognition as a biometric authentication technique. It begins with an introduction to iris recognition and the eye. It then covers how iris recognition works, including image acquisition, processing, feature extraction, and matching. Applications of iris recognition include ATMs, airports, prisons, and online services. Iris recognition provides advantages such as highly complex and individual iris patterns that remain stable over a lifetime. It is also very resistant to false matches and imitation. The document concludes that iris recognition is an excellent and robust identification system.