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Person identification is a problem that has received substantial attention, particularly in security domains. Gait recognition is one of the most convenient approaches enabling person identification at a distance without the need of…

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Gait recognition is a promising biometric technology for identification due to its non-invasiveness and long-distance. However, external variations such as clothing changes and viewpoint differences pose significant challenges to gait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yan Sun , Xueling Feng , Liyan Ma , Long Hu , Mark Nixon

Gait recognition, a fundamental biometric technology, leverages unique walking patterns for individual identification, typically using 2D representations such as silhouettes or skeletons. However, these methods often struggle with viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhao-Yang Wang , Jieneng Chen , Jiang Liu , Yuxiang Guo , Rama Chellappa

Gait recognition has emerged as a compelling biometric modality for surveillance and security applications, offering inherent advantages such as non-intrusiveness, resistance to disguise, and long-range identification capability. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yabo Luo , Xiaoyun Wang , Cunrong Li

Human identification is a key requirement for many applications in everyday life, such as personalized services, automatic surveillance, continuous authentication, and contact tracing during pandemics, etc. This work studies the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Dongjiang Cao , Ruofeng Liu , Hao Li , Shuai Wang , Wenchao Jiang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Motion ability is one of the most important human properties, including gait as a basis of human transitional movement. Gait, as a biometric for recognizing human identities, can be non-intrusively captured signals using wearable or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Vahid Alizadeh

Gait recognition is a significant biometric technique for person identification, particularly in scenarios where other physiological biometrics are impractical or ineffective. In this paper, we address the challenges associated with gait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Proma Hossain Progga , Md. Jobayer Rahman , Swapnil Biswas , Md. Shakil Ahmed , Arif Reza Anwary , Swakkhar Shatabda

Gait recognition plays a vital role in human identification since gait is a unique biometric feature that can be perceived at a distance. Although existing gait recognition methods can learn gait features from gait sequences in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yiqun Liu , Yi Zeng , Jian Pu , Hongming Shan , Peiyang He , Junping Zhang

The analysis of patterns of walking is an important area of research that has numerous applications in security, healthcare, sports and human-computer interaction. Lately, walking patterns have been regarded as a unique fingerprinting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Andy Catruna , Adrian Cosma , Emilian Radoi

Human gait is considered a unique biometric identifier which can be acquired in a covert manner at a distance. However, models trained on existing public domain gait datasets which are captured in controlled scenarios lead to drastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Shaoxiong Zhang , Yunhong Wang , Tianrui Chai , Annan Li , Anil K. Jain

Gait recognition is a promising video-based biometric for identifying individual walking patterns from a long distance. At present, most gait recognition methods use silhouette images to represent a person in each frame. However, silhouette…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Torben Teepe , Ali Khan , Johannes Gilg , Fabian Herzog , Stefan Hörmann , Gerhard Rigoll

Human identification is one of the most common and critical tasks for condition monitoring, human-machine interaction, and providing assistive services in smart environments. Recently, human gait has gained new attention as a biometric for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Muhammad Zeeshan Arshad , Dawoon Jung , Mina Park , Kyung-Ryoul Mun , Jinwook Kim

Gait is a unique biometric feature that can be recognized at a distance; thus, it has broad applications in crime prevention, forensic identification, and social security. To portray a gait, existing gait recognition methods utilize either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hanqing Chao , Kun Wang , Yiwei He , Junping Zhang , Jianfeng Feng

Gait recognition captures gait patterns from the walking sequence of an individual for identification. Most existing gait recognition methods learn features from silhouettes or skeletons for the robustness to clothing, carrying, and other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yunjie Peng , Kang Ma , Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang He

Compared to other biometrics, gait is difficult to conceal and has the advantage of being unobtrusive. Inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, are often used to capture gait dynamics. These inertial sensors are commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Qin Zou , Yanling Wang , Qian Wang , Yi Zhao , Qingquan Li

The use of gait for person identification has important advantages such as being non-invasive, unobtrusive, not requiring cooperation and being less likely to be obscured compared to other biometrics. Existing methods for gait recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Adrian Cosma , Emilian Radoi

Gait recognition is the characterization of unique biometric patterns associated with each individual which can be utilized to identify a person without direct contact. A public gait database with a relatively large number of subjects can…

Gait recognition is emerging as a promising and innovative area within the field of computer vision, widely applied to remote person identification. Although existing gait recognition methods have achieved substantial success in controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhengxian Wu , Chuanrui Zhang , Hangrui Xu , Peng Jiao , Haoqian Wang

Gait recognition, referring to the identification of individuals based on the manner in which they walk, can be very challenging due to the variations in the viewpoint of the camera and the appearance of individuals. Current methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Saeed Ghorbani , Nikolaus F. Troje , Ali Etemad

Gait recognition aims at identifying the pedestrians at a long distance by their biometric gait patterns. It is inherently challenging due to the various covariates and the properties of silhouettes (textureless and colorless), which result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Huanzhang Dou , Pengyi Zhang , Yuhan Zhao , Lin Dong , Zequn Qin , Xi Li