Gait and Full Body Movement Dataset of Autistic Children Classified by Rough Set Classifier

Abstract

Gait and body movement are a window to human brain which make these activities unique for each person. These activities are used to diagnose some disorders related to parts of brain which causes have not been known such as Autism Disorders (AD). The traditional diagnostic methods of AD are time-consuming and highly dependent on clinician’s judgment which is based on behaviour assessment. This approach leads to subjective interpretations that differ from doctor to another and affect by strengths and weaknesses of patient. Therefore this paper aims to diagnosis of AD based on gait and body movement analysis. At first, Kinect v2 uses to create a 3D dataset, which includes three dimensional joints positions, joints trajectories video, skeleton movement video captured by Kinect v2, and color videos captured by Samsung Note 9 camera. This paper also aims to classify children with autism from normal children by proposed system based on four stages: Augmentation of the database by using seven transformations to deal with small number of autism cases; Extracting features that we think play an important role in classification; Reducing data dimensions using Principal Component Analysis; using Rough Set to classify dataset. Results show that classification is 92% after augmentation.