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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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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