Personal Identification Using Footstep Detection in In-Door Environment

Yasuhiro SHOJI
Akitoshi ITAI
Hiroshi YASUKAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E88-A    No.8    pp.2072-2077
Publication Date: 2005/08/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.8.2072
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Papers Selected from the 19th Symposium on Signal Processing)
Category: Digital Signal Processing
Keyword: 
footstep,  feature extraction,  noise removal,  clustering,  recognition rate,  

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Summary: 
Footsteps, with different shoes of heels, sneakers, leathers or even bare footed, will appear in different grounds of concrete, wood, etc. If a footstep is discriminable, the application to various fields can be considered. In this paper, the feature extraction of a footstep is investigated. We focus on the recognizing a certain kind of footstep waveforms under the restricted condition. We propose a new methodology using the feature parameter such as the peak frequency set by the mel-cepstrum analysis, the walking intervals and the similarity of spectrum envelope. It is shown for personal identification that the performance of the proposed method is effective.

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