Use of gait parameters of persons in video surveillance systems

Zeno J. Geradts; Menno Merlijn; Gert de Groot; Jurrien Bijhold

doi:10.1117/12.474735

19 July 2002 Use of gait parameters of persons in video surveillance systems

Zeno J. Geradts, Menno Merlijn, Gert de Groot, Jurrien Bijhold

Proceedings Volume 4709, Investigative Image Processing II; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474735
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The gait parameters of eleven subjects were evaluated to provide data for recognition purposes of subjects. Video images of these subjects were acquired in frontal, transversal, and sagittal (a plane parallel to the median of the body) view. The subjects walked by at their usual walking speed. The measured parameters were hip, knee and ankle joint angle and their time averaged values, thigh, foot and trunk angle, step length and width, cycle time and walking speed. Correlation coefficients within and between subjects for the hip, knee and ankle rotation pattern in the sagittal aspect and for the trunk rotation pattern in the transversal aspect were almost similar. (were similar or were almost identical) This implies that the intra and inter individual variance were equal. Therefore, these gait parameters could not distinguish between subjects. A simple ANOVA with a follow-up test was used to detect significant differences for the mean hip, knee and ankle joint angle, thigh angle, step length, step width, walking speed, cycle time and foot angle. The number of significant differences between subjects defined the usefulness of the gait parameter. The parameter with the most significant difference between subjects was the foot angle (64 % - 73 % of the maximal attainable significant differences), followed by the time average hip joint angle (58 %) and the step length (45 %). The other parameters scored less than 25 %, which is poor for recognition purposes. The use of gait for identification purposes it not yet possible based on this research.

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Zeno J. Geradts, Menno Merlijn, Gert de Groot, and Jurrien Bijhold "Use of gait parameters of persons in video surveillance systems", Proc. SPIE 4709, Investigative Image Processing II, (19 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474735

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