Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: International Series on Biometrics (KISB, volume 4)
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About this book
Human Identification Based on Gait is the first book to address gait as a biometric. Biometrics is now in a unique position where it affects most people's lives. This is especially true of "gait", which is one of the most recent biometrics. Recognizing people by the way they walk and run implies analyzing movement which, in turn, implies analyzing sequences of images, thus requiring memory and computational performance that became available only recently. Human Identification Based on Gait introduces developments from distinguished researchers within this relatively new area of biometrics. This book clearly establishes how human gait is biometric.
Human Identification Based on Gait is structured to meet the needs of professionals in industry, as well as advanced-level students in computer science.
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"Human Identification Based on Gait is authored by three famous professors from three prestigious universities that are located on three different continents. … They have also worked on many vision problems related to motion processing and analysis … . the authors have done a great job in making this book a standard reference on automatic gait recognition. … a lot of opportunity for further research and development exists in the area of automatic gait recognition. This should excite and motivate interested students and researchers." (IAPR Newsletter, November, 2005)
"An in-depth analysis of the state of the art in gait-based human identification is provided in this book. … The book cover clearly identifies the volume as one aimed at a professional audience … . A person interested in human-movement modeling and authentication would benefit from reading the first step in understanding both the capabilities and limitations of the field." (Stefan Robila, Computing Reviews, November, 2006)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Identification Based on Gait
Authors: Mark S. Nixon, Tieniu Tan, Rama Chellappa
Series Title: International Series on Biometrics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29488-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24424-2Published: 29 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3742-1Published: 09 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-29488-9Published: 26 May 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 188
Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations
Topics: Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Multimedia Information Systems, Biometrics, Data Structures and Information Theory