FRED-Net: Fully residual encoder-decoder network for accurate iris segmentation.

•Proposed FRED-Net is an end-to-end semantic segmentation network for iris and road scene.•FRED-Net is a standalone network where eyelid, eyelash, and glint detections are not required.•FRED-Net is the result of step-by-step development, whose step is a complete variant network.•FRED-Net uses the residual connectivity for both encoder and decoder.•Our trained FRED-Net models, along with the algorithms, are made publicly available.