An Approach to Speed Invariant Gait Analysis for Human Recognition using Mutual Information

Abstract

Gait is a biometric characteristic that facilitates the identification of individuals with low-resolution images. This aspect intensifies its utility in many human detection applications. However, there are many challenges that adversely affect the gait recognition performance. They are caused by the impact of various covariate aspects such as, changes in clothing and carrying conditions, walking speed, walking surface conditions, view variations, and so on. This paper proposes an effective approach for speed-invariant gait recognition system. This approach uses the Region of Interest (ROI) extracted from Gait Energy Image (GEI) to classify a probe sample into a gallery sample. The mutual information obtained from a probe and gallery sample, followed by their classification capture the spatial dynamics of GEI efficiently to improve the gait recognition performance. Further, the proposed method is evaluated on CASIA C and OU-ISIR Treadmill A gait databases. Experimental results demonstrate the capability of the proposed approach in comparison with the existing gait recognition methods.