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Gait Recognition, Silhouette-Based

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Synonyms

Appearance-based gait analysis; Silhouette Analysis-Based Gait Recognition for Human Identification

Definition

Silhouette-based gait recognition is the analysis of walking human figures for the purpose of biometric recognition. Gait biometrics offers the advantage of covertness; acquisition is possible without the awareness or cooperation of the subject. The analysis may apply to a single static image or to a temporal sequence of images, i.e., video.

Introduction

The phenomenon of gait is the “coordinated, cyclic combination of movements that result in human locomotion” [1]. Gait is necessary for human mobility and is therefore ubiquitous and easy to observe.

The common experience of recognizing a friend from a distance by the way they walk has inspired the use of gait as a biometric feature. In fact, Cutting and Kozlowski [2], using moving light displays to isolate the motion stimulus, demonstrated that humans can indeed identify familiar people from gait. In their...

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  1. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jeffrey E. Boyd

  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    James J. Little

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security, Research & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil K. Jain

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Boyd, J.E., Little, J.J. (2015). Gait Recognition, Silhouette-Based. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_36

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