1 A method for biometric matching with iris data, comprising: acquiring, by a sensor, an image of an iris; selecting a portion of the acquired image of the iris, the portion selected to avoid specularities on the image and for matching against stored iris data corresponding to the selected portion; performing one or more transformations to the selected portion to generate a plurality of transformed images, the one or more transformations comprising at least one of: translation, rotation, resizing and removal of deformation; and determining if any of the generated images substantially matches the stored iris data.