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Gait recognition is the process of
identifying an individual by the manner in
which they walk. This offers the possibility
to identify people at a distance, without any
interaction or co-operation from the subject;
this is the property which makes it as
attractive as a method of identification. In
modern society, the need for the
establishment of defense and prevention
mechanisms has encouraged the
development of automatic human
recognition systems based on biometrics, i.e.
the analysis of a person's psychological and
behavioral features. Gait, or the peculiar
manner of walking, allows the recognition
process to be made at a distance since it is
possible to extract the gait information from
a video sequence of a distant person
walking. A binary silhouette of the walking
person is obtained by background
subtraction; the binary silhouettes are then
aligned and generate a histogram of each
silhouette image. Then compare their
histograms using the Bhattacharyya
coefficient method silhouettes histogram of
a number of persons is used for recognition
purposes.
In this section we will investigate the current
state of the art in gait recognition, providing
an overview of the methods which are
currently being investigated and will provide
background information on all of the
techniques which have been used throughout
this project. Gait recognition techniques can
be broken down into two main sections,
model based and model free. Several
researchers have concluded that gait is
indicative of a person's gender and identity.
Johansson used lights affixed to joints of a
human body and showed observers motion
sequences of the lights as a person walks.
The observers were able to identify gender
and, in cases where the observer was
familiar with the walking subject, the
identity of the walker. Cutting, et al. studied
human perception of gait using Moving
Light Displays (MLD) similar to that used
by Johansson and showed human person
identification results and gender
classification results. They showed that
human observers could identify gender with
approximately 70% accuracy using only the
visual cues from MLD.
This algorithm is simple and easy to
implement. The algorithms are based on
silhouette sequences histogram extracted
from video clips of people walking. The
algorithms match stored templates against
an unknown sequence of silhouettes
histogram extracted from a video clip. Test
the algorithms using images of people
walking in different scenarios and
environmental conditions. Under similar
constraints and conditions produce best
results. And the similarity becomes too high.
Similarity becomes little bit low at different
place and environmental condition. After
matching similarity in histograms of
silhouettes images, the algorithm is able to
recognize the person up to 15 meters. This
project work on silhouettes images and also
work on degrades images. Due to the usage
of histogram for comparison of pixel is too
less than the comparison between two
images. It is efficient in term of execution
and it save time and space both. If two
people in image, this algorithm works only
when a single image of two different
persons are separated in two different
images.