Image and Formula Based Gait Recognition Methods

D. Sharmila, E. Kirubakaran
2010 International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering  
The term gait recognition is typically used to signify the identification of people in image sequences by the way they walk. Human gait is a valuable biometric cue that can be used for human identification besides other biometrics such as faces & fingerprints. Gait is determined by the physical characteristics of each individual, and so is believed to be as unique to the person as a fingerprint is. Gait is relatively new and emergent behavioral biometric, that pertains to the use of an
more » ... ls walking style to determine or validate identity. Human identification using gait is a challenging computer vision task. Gait is also one of the few biometrics that can be measured at a distance, which makes it useful in surveillance applications as well. In this paper, our objective is to develop robust methods for extracting discriminate gait features automatically and passively from low-resolution video. For this, we explore two gait recognition techniques. They are Image based gait recognition and Formula based gait recognition. Both methods characterize and recognize gait by computing correspondence-free motion features from the video sequence.
doi:10.7763/ijcee.2010.v2.165 fatcat:hliiu5tr35h4rdb6siofhascnq