Vision-Based Gait Recognition: A Survey

Abstract

In the digital world of today, global security issues have given rise to video surveillance devices. Gait-based human recognition is an emerging behavioral biometric trait for intelligent surveillance monitoring because of its non-contact and non-cooperation with subjects. Other benefits of gait recognition in video surveillance are that it can be acquired at a distance and help to identify an object under low-resolution videos. This paper surveys extensively the current progress made towards vision-based human gait recognition. This paper discusses historical research that performs analysis of gait locomotion and provides information on how gait recognition can be performed. This paper describes measuring metrics that can be used to measure the performance of gait recognition model under verification and identification mode. This paper also provides an up-to-date review of existing studies on gait recognition representations (model based and model free). We also provide an extensive survey of available gait databases used in state-of-art gait recognition models, created since 1998. Furthermore, it offers insight into open research problems that help researchers to explore unripe areas in gait analysis, such as occlusion, view variations, and appearance changes in gait recognition. This paper also identifies the future perspectives in gait recognition and also outlines the proposed work.