Gait recognition is one of the most important biometric technologies and has been applied in many fields. Recent gait recognition frameworks represent each gait frame by descriptors extracted from either global appearances or local regions of humans. However, the representations based on global information often neglect the details of the gait frame, while local region based descriptors cannot capture the relations among neighboring regions, thus reducing their discriminativeness. In this paper, we propose a novel feature extraction and fusion framework to achieve discriminative feature representations for gait recognition. Towards this goal, we take advantage of both global visual information and local region details and develop a Global and Local Feature Extractor (GLFE). Specifically, our GLFE module is composed of our newly designed multiple global and local convolutional layers (GLConv) to ensemble global and local features in a principle manner. Furthermore, we present a novel operation, namely Local Temporal Aggregation (LTA), to further preserve the spatial information by reducing the temporal resolution to obtain higher spatial resolution. With the help of our GLFE and LTA, our method significantly improves the discriminativeness of our visual features, thus improving the gait recognition performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art gait recognition methods on two popular datasets.
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 images can lose fine-grained spatial information, and most papers do not regard how to obtain these silhouettes in complex scenes. Furthermore, silhouette images contain not only gait features but also other visual clues that can be recognized. Hence these approaches can not be considered as strict gait recognition. We leverage recent advances in human pose…
Skeleton-based gait recognition models usually suffer from the robustness problem, as the Rank-1 accuracy varies from 90\% in normal walking cases to 70\% in walking with coats cases. In this work, we propose a state-of-the-art robust skeleton-based gait recognition model called Gait-TR, which is based on the combination of spatial transformer frameworks and temporal convolutional networks. Gait-TR achieves substantial improvements over other skeleton-based gait models with higher accuracy and better robustness on the well-known gait dataset CASIA-B. Particularly in walking with coats cases, G…
Gait recognition is a promising biometric with unique properties for identifying individuals from a long distance by their walking patterns. In recent years, most gait recognition methods used the person's silhouette to extract the gait features. However, silhouette images can lose fine-grained spatial information, suffer from (self) occlusion, and be challenging to obtain in real-world scenarios. Furthermore, these silhouettes also contain other visual clues that are not actual gait features and can be used for identification, but also to fool the system. Model-based methods do not suffer fro…
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；University of Science and Technology, University of Danang（岘港大学科技大学）；Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)（电子与电信研究所（ETRI））
Gait recognition, which refers to the recognition or identification of a person based on their body shape and walking styles, derived from video data captured from a distance, is widely used in crime prevention, forensic identification, and social security. However, to the best of our knowledge, most of the existing methods use appearance, posture and temporal feautures without considering a learned temporal attention mechanism for global and local information fusion. In this paper, we propose a novel gait recognition framework, called Temporal Attention and Keypoint-guided Embedding (GaitTAKE…
Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology（拉杰沙希工程技术大学）；Varendra University（瓦伦德拉大学）
Gait recognition is one of the most recent emerging techniques of human biometric which can be used for security based purposes having unobtrusive learning method. In comparison with other bio-metrics gait analysis has some special security features. Most of the biometric technique uses sequential template based component analysis for recognition. Comparing with those methods, we proposed a developed technique for gait identification using the feature Gait Energy Image (GEI). GEI representation of gait contains all information of each image in one gait cycle and requires less storage and low p…
Wuhan University（武汉大学）；Shenzhen University（深圳大学）；University of South Carolina（南卡罗来纳大学）
Gait has been considered as a promising and unique biometric for person identification. Traditionally, gait data are collected using either color sensors, such as a CCD camera, depth sensors, such as a Microsoft Kinect, or inertial sensors, such as an accelerometer. However, a single type of sensors may only capture part of the dynamic gait features and make the gait recognition sensitive to complex covariate conditions, leading to fragile gait-based person identification systems. In this paper, we propose to combine all three types of sensors for gait data collection and gait recognition, whi…
College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics（南京航空航天大学自动化学院）
At present, the existing gait recognition systems are focusing on developing methods to extract robust gait feature from silhouette images and they indeed achieved great success. However, gait can be sensitive to appearance features such as clothing and carried items. Compared with appearance-based method, model-based gait recognition is promising due to the robustness against these variations. In recent years, with the development of human pose estimation, the difficulty of model-based gait recognition methods has been mitigated. In this paper, to resist the increase of subjects and views var…
A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Gait Recognition: Algorithms, Datasets and Challenges
The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）
Biometric authentication using gait has become a promising field due to its unobtrusive nature. Recent approaches in model-based gait recognition techniques utilize spatio-temporal graphs for the elegant extraction of gait features. However, existing methods often rely on multi-scale operators for extracting long-range relationships among joints resulting in biased weighting. In this paper, we present HEATGait, a gait recognition system that improves the existing multi-scale graph convolution by efficient hop-extraction technique to alleviate the issue. Combined with preprocessing and augmenta…
Gait recognition under multiple views is an important computer vision and pattern recognition task. In the emerging convolutional neural network based approaches, the information of view angle is ignored to some extent. Instead of direct view estimation and training view-specific recognition models, we propose a compatible framework that can embed view information into existing architectures of gait recognition. The embedding is simply achieved by a selective projection layer. Experimental results on two large public datasets show that the proposed framework is very effective.
Gait, the walking pattern of individuals, is one of the important biometrics modalities. Most of the existing gait recognition methods take silhouettes or articulated body models as gait features. These methods suffer from degraded recognition performance when handling confounding variables, such as clothing, carrying and viewing angle. To remedy this issue, we propose a novel AutoEncoder framework, GaitNet, to explicitly disentangle appearance, canonical and pose features from RGB imagery. The LSTM integrates pose features over time as a dynamic gait feature while canonical features are avera…
Newcastle University（纽卡斯尔大学）；University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；Durham University（杜伦大学）；Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）
Gait as a biometric trait has attracted much attention in many security and privacy applications such as identity recognition and authentication, during the last few decades. Because of its nature as a long-distance biometric trait, gait can be easily collected and used to identify individuals non-intrusively through CCTV cameras. However, it is very difficult to develop robust automated gait recognition systems, since gait may be affected by many covariate factors such as clothing, walking speed, camera view angle etc. Out of them, large view angle changes has been deemed as the most challeng…
GaitASMS: Gait Recognition by Adaptive Structured Spatial Representation and Multi-Scale Temporal Aggregation
School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University（上海大学计算机工程与科学学院）；School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton（南安普顿大学电子与计算机科学学院）
As a unique biometric feature that can be recognized at a distance, gait has broad applications in crime prevention, forensic identification and social security. To portray a gait, existing gait recognition methods utilize either a gait template, where temporal information is hard to preserve, or a gait sequence, which must keep unnecessary sequential constraints and thus loses the flexibility of gait recognition. In this paper we present a novel perspective, where a gait is regarded as a set consisting of independent frames. We propose a new network named GaitSet to learn identity information…
Hangzhou Dianzi University（杭州电子科技大学）；Explore Academy of JD.com（京东探索研究院）
Existing studies for gait recognition are dominated by 2D representations like the silhouette or skeleton of the human body in constrained scenes. However, humans live and walk in the unconstrained 3D space, so projecting the 3D human body onto the 2D plane will discard a lot of crucial information like the viewpoint, shape, and dynamics for gait recognition. Therefore, this paper aims to explore dense 3D representations for gait recognition in the wild, which is a practical yet neglected problem. In particular, we propose a novel framework to explore the 3D Skinned Multi-Person Linear (SMPL) …
Gait based biometric aims to discriminate among people by the way or manner they walk. It represents a biometric at distance which has many advantages over other biometric modalities. State-of-the-art methods require a limited cooperation from the individuals. Consequently, contrary to other modalities, gait is a non-invasive approach. As a behavioral analysis, gait is difficult to circumvent. Moreover, gait can be performed without the subject being aware of it. Consequently, it is more difficult to try to tamper one own biometric signature. In this paper we review different features and appr…
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；Research Institute of Trustworthy Autonomous System, Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学可信自主系统研究院）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学）
Gait recognition is one of the most critical long-distance identification technologies and increasingly gains popularity in both research and industry communities. Despite the significant progress made in indoor datasets, much evidence shows that gait recognition techniques perform poorly in the wild. More importantly, we also find that some conclusions drawn from indoor datasets cannot be generalized to real applications. Therefore, the primary goal of this paper is to present a comprehensive benchmark study for better practicality rather than only a particular model for better performance. T…
National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学并行与分布处理国家重点实验室）；College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学计算机学院）
Gait and static body measurement are important biometric technologies for passive human recognition. Many previous works argue that recognition performance based completely on the gait feature is limited. The reason for this limited performance remains unclear. This study focuses on human recognition with gait feature obtained by Kinect and shows that gait feature can effectively distinguish from different human beings through a novel representation -- relative distance-based gait features. Experimental results show that the recognition accuracy with relative distance features reaches up to 85…
The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）
Video-based gait recognition has achieved impressive results in constrained scenarios. However, visual cameras neglect human 3D structure information, which limits the feasibility of gait recognition in the 3D wild world. Instead of extracting gait features from images, this work explores precise 3D gait features from point clouds and proposes a simple yet efficient 3D gait recognition framework, termed LidarGait. Our proposed approach projects sparse point clouds into depth maps to learn the representations with 3D geometry information, which outperforms existing point-wise and camera-based m…
Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）；Ford Research and Innovation Center（福特研究与创新中心）
Gait, the walking pattern of individuals, is one of the most important biometrics modalities. Most of the existing gait recognition methods take silhouettes or articulated body models as the gait features. These methods suffer from degraded recognition performance when handling confounding variables, such as clothing, carrying and view angle. To remedy this issue, we propose a novel AutoEncoder framework to explicitly disentangle pose and appearance features from RGB imagery and the LSTM-based integration of pose features over time produces the gait feature. In addition, we collect a Frontal-V…
Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）
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 performance decline when applied to real-world unconstrained gait data. On the other hand, video person re-identification techniques have achieved promising performance on large-scale publicly available datasets. Given the diversity of clothing characteristics, clothing cue is not reliable for person recognition in general. So, it is actually not clear why the sta…
Human gait is one of important biometric characteristics for human identification at a distance. In practice, occlusion usually occurs and seriously affects accuracy of gait recognition. However, there is no available database to support in-depth research of this problem, and state-of-arts gait recognition methods have not paid enough attention to it, thus this paper focuses on gait recognition under occlusion. We collect a new gait recognition database called OG RGB+D database, which breaks through the limitation of other gait databases and includes multimodal gait data of various occlusions …
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）
Gait is one of the most promising biometrics to identify individuals at a long distance. Although most previous methods have focused on recognizing the silhouettes, several end-to-end methods that extract gait features directly from RGB images perform better. However, we demonstrate that these end-to-end methods may inevitably suffer from the gait-irrelevant noises, i.e., low-level texture and colorful information. Experimentally, we design the cross-domain evaluation to support this view. In this work, we propose a novel end-to-end framework named GaitEdge which can effectively block gait-irr…
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 exterior factors. The combination of the two data modalities, however, is not fully exploited. Previous multimodal gait recognition methods mainly employ the skeleton to assist the local feature extraction where the intrinsic discrimination of the skeleton data is ignored. This paper proposes a simple yet effective Bimodal Fusion (BiFusion) network which mine…
Queen’s University（女王大学）；Ingenuity Labs Research Institute（才智实验室研究所）
Gait recognition is an appealing biometric modality which aims to identify individuals based on the way they walk. Deep learning has reshaped the research landscape in this area since 2015 through the ability to automatically learn discriminative representations. Gait recognition methods based on deep learning now dominate the state-of-the-art in the field and have fostered real-world applications. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of breakthroughs and recent developments in gait recognition with deep learning, and cover broad topics including datasets, test protocols, state-o…
In this paper we evaluate running gait as an attribute for video person re-identification in a long-distance running event. We show that running gait recognition achieves competitive performance compared to appearance-based approaches in the cross-camera retrieval task and that gait and appearance features are complementary to each other. For gait, the arm swing during running is less distinguishable when using binary gait silhouettes, due to ambiguity in the torso region. We propose to use human semantic parsing to create partial gait silhouettes where the torso is left out. Leaving out the t…
Advance Technologies Application Center (CENATAV)（先进技术应用中心）；Universidad de Sevilla（塞维利亚大学）
Gait recognition is an important biometric technique for video surveillance tasks, due to the advantage of using it at distance. In this paper, we present a persistent homology-based method to extract topological features (the so-called {\it topological gait signature}) from the the body silhouettes of a gait sequence. % It has been used before in several conference papers of the same authors for human identification, gender classification, carried object detection and monitoring human activities at distance. % The novelty of this paper is the study of the stability of the topological gait sig…
Hebei Key Laboratory for Electromagnetic Environmental Effects and Information Processing（河北省电磁环境效应与信息处理重点实验室）；Shijiazhuang Tiedao University（石家庄铁道大学）
Gait recognition, which can realize long-distance and contactless identification, is an important biometric technology. Recent gait recognition methods focus on learning the pattern of human movement or appearance during walking, and construct the corresponding spatio-temporal representations. However, different individuals have their own laws of movement patterns, simple spatial-temporal features are difficult to describe changes in motion of human parts, especially when confounding variables such as clothing and carrying are included, thus distinguishability of features is reduced. In this p…
Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；PhiGent Robotics（鉴智机器人）；NetEase Fuxi AI Lab（网易伏羲人工智能实验室）；Shandong Normal University（山东师范大学）；University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）
Many gait recognition methods first partition the human gait into N-parts and then combine them to establish part-based feature representations. Their gait recognition performance is often affected by partitioning strategies, which are empirically chosen in different datasets. However, we observe that strips as the basic component of parts are agnostic against different partitioning strategies. Motivated by this observation, we present a strip-based multi-level gait recognition network, named GaitStrip, to extract comprehensive gait information at different levels. To be specific, our high-lev…
Learning Geometric Invariance for Gait Recognition
School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学人工智能学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学人工智能学院）；Watrix Technology Limited Co. Ltd（华矩阵科技有限公司）
National Research University Higher School of Economics（国立研究型大学高等经济学院）；Lomonosov Moscow State University（罗蒙诺索夫莫斯科国立大学）
Human gait or walking manner is a biometric feature that allows identification of a person when other biometric features such as the face or iris are not visible. In this paper, we present a new pose-based convolutional neural network model for gait recognition. Unlike many methods that consider the full-height silhouette of a moving person, we consider the motion of points in the areas around human joints. To extract motion information, we estimate the optical flow between consecutive frames. We propose a deep convolutional model that computes pose-based gait descriptors. We compare different…
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 a gait template which makes it difficult to preserve temporal information, or a gait sequence that maintains unnecessary sequential constraints and thus loses the flexibility of gait recognition. In this paper, we present a novel perspective that utilizes gait as a deep set, which means that a set of gait frames are integrated by a global-local fused deep ne…
GaitKD: A Universal Decoupled Distillation Framework for Efficient Gait Recognition
The City University of New York（纽约城市大学）；Wuhan University（武汉大学）；Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）；Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Oulu（奥卢大学）
Gait recognition i.e. identification of an individual from his/her walking pattern is an emerging field. While existing gait recognition techniques perform satisfactorily in normal walking conditions, there performance tend to suffer drastically with variations in clothing and carrying conditions. In this work, we propose a novel covariate cognizant framework to deal with the presence of such covariates. We describe gait motion by forming a single 2D spatio-temporal template from video sequence, called Average Energy Silhouette image (AESI). Zernike moment invariants (ZMIs) are then computed t…
The goal of this paper is to identify individuals by analyzing their gait. Instead of using binary silhouettes as input data (as done in many previous works) we propose and evaluate the use of motion descriptors based on densely sampled short-term trajectories. We take advantage of state-of-the-art people detectors to define custom spatial configurations of the descriptors around the target person. Thus, obtaining a pyramidal representation of the gait motion. The local motion features (described by the Divergence-Curl-Shear descriptor) extracted on the different spatial areas of the person ar…
