This is the first book to address gait as a biometric. Recognizing people by the way they walk and run requires analyzing movement which, in turn, requires analyzing sequences of images, thus requiring memory and computational performance that became available only recently. Human Identification Based on Gait introduces new work from distinguished researchers in this relatively new area of biometrics. This book clearly establishes how human gait is biometric.

This book is structured to meet the needs of professionals in industry, as well as advanced-level students in computer science.

First book on gait as a biometric -- recognizing people by the way they walk and run -- establishes clearly how human gait is a biometric New computer vision approaches are defined and employed to extract and describe walking humans in sequences of images Covers developments from distinguished researchers within this relatively new area of biometrics Links scientific context with psychology, medicine and biomechanics

Klappentext

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 sequences of images.

This professional book introduces developments from the laboratories of very distinguished researchers within this relatively new area of biometrics and clearly establishes human gait as a biometric. Human Identification Based on Gait provides a snapshot of all the biometric work in human identification by gait (all major centers for research are indicated in this book). To complete the picture, studies are included from medicine, psychology and other areas wherein we find not only justification for the use of gait as a biometric, but also pointers to techniques and to analysis.

Human Identification Based on Gait is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science.

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