Performance of gait recognition in children´s walking compared to adults

In this paper the first known results on gait recognition in children´s walking are presented. All research on gait recognition has so far focused on adult walking, mostly under normal conditions, but sometimes under special circumstances. So far some papers have only mentioned that children´s walking was most likely different from adult walking, but no scientific data was available to prove or disprove this statement. In this paper we will show that the performance degradation for children´s walking compared to adult walking is approximately 100%. In comparable settings we reached a 6.21% Equal Error Rate (EER) for adult gait recognition, while for children´s walking we only reached an EER of 12.69%.