Recognizing People by Their Gait : The Shape of Motion

Abstract

> y)). Scale-independent scalar features of each flow, based on moments of the moving point weighted by |u|, |v|,or|(u, v)|, characterize the spatial distribution of the flow. We then analyze the periodic structure of these sequences of scalars. The scalar sequences for an image sequence have the same fundamental period but differ in phase, which is a phase feature for each signal. Some phase features are consistent for one person and show significant statistical variation among persons. We use the phase feature vectors to recognize individuals by the shape of their motion. As few as three features out of the full set of twelve lead to excellent discrimination. Keywords: action recognition, gait recognition, motion features, optic flow, motion energy, spatial frequency, analysis Recognizing People by Their Gait: The Shape of Moti