This paper presents a fuzzy-basedmethod to locate the position and the size of irises ina head-shoulder image with plain background. Thismethod is composed of two stages: the face region es-timation stage and the eye feature extraction stage.In the first stage, a region growing method is adoptedto estimate the face region. In the second stage, thecoarse eye area is firstly extracted based on the loca-tion of the nasion, and the deformable template al-gorithm is then applied to eye area to determine theposition and the size of irises. Experimental resultsshow the efficiency and robustness of this method.