Human Identification Based on Gait

• Main Authors: Nixon, Mark S. (Author), Tan, Tieniu (Author), Chellappa, Rama (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: International Series on Biometrics ; 4
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Multimedia information systems.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Biometrics (Biology).; Computer Science.; Pattern Recognition.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Biometrics.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.

Biometrics now affect many people's lives, and is the focus of much academic research and commercial development. Gait is one of the most recent biometrics, with its own unique advantages. Gait recognizes people by the way they walk and run, analyzes movement,which in turn implies analyzing seq...

Table of Contents:

• Subjects Allied to Gait
• Gait Databases
• Early Recognition Approaches
• Silhouette-Based Approaches
• Model-Based Approaches
• Further Gait Developments
• Future Challenges.