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Gait Recognition

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Synonyms

Automatic gait recognition; Gait analysis; Gait biometrics

Related Concepts

Face Identification; Optical Flow; Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Definition

The way a person walks (or runs) combined with their posture is known as gait. Recognizing individuals by their particular gait using automated vision-based algorithms is known as gait recognition.

Background

Gait has few important advantages over other forms of biometric identification. It can be acquired at a distance when other biometrics are obscured or the resolution is insufficient. It does not require subject cooperation and can be acquired in a noninvasive manner. It is easy to observe and hard to disguise as walking is necessary for human mobility. Gait can be acquired from a single still image or from a temporal sequence of images (e.g., a video).

Shakespeare made several references to the individuality of gait, e.g., in The Tempest [Act 4 Scene 1], Cares observes “High’st Queen of state, Great Juno comes; I...

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  1. School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, UK

    Darko S. Matovski, Mark S. Nixon & John N. Carter

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  1. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsushi Ikeuchi

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Matovski, D.S., Nixon, M.S., Carter, J.N. (2014). Gait Recognition. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_375

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