A study on view-insensitive gait recognition

Most gait recognition approaches only study human walking frontoparallel to the image plane which is not realistic in video surveillance applications. Human gait appearance depends on various factors including locations of the camera and the person, the camera axis and the walking direction. By analyzing these factors, we propose a statistical approach for view-insensitive gait recognition. The proposed approach recognizes human using a single camera, and avoids the difficulties of recovering the human body structure and camera calibration. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves good performance in recognizing individuals walking along different directions.