Gait Recognition Using View Distance Vectors

This paper presents a new approach for human identification at a distance using gait recognition. Binarized silhouette of a motion object is represented by 1-D signals which are the basic image features called the distance vectors. The distance vectors are differences between the bounding box and silhouette, and extracted using four view directions to silhouette. Based on normalized correlation on the distance vectors, gait cycle estimation is first performed to extract the gait cycle. Second, eigenspace transformation based on PCA is applied to time-varying distance vectors and then Mahalanobis and normalized Euclidean distances based supervised pattern classification is finally performed in the lower-dimensional eigenspace for human identification. Experimental results on two main database demonstrate that the right person in top two matches 100% of the times for the cases where training and testing sets corresponds to the walking styles for data set of 25 people, and other data set of 22 people.