Human gait recognition subject to different covariate factors in a multi-view environment

Gait recognition provides the opportunity to identify different walking styles of people without physical intervention. However, covariates such as changing clothes and carrying conditions may influence recognition accuracy. Our objective was to identify the walking patterns of people for different covariates through analyzing images from publicly available data set CASIA-B on gait. On the dataset, the proposed method was evaluated by using GEI (gait energy image) as inputs for normal walking, changing clothes, and carrying conditions in a multi-view environment. A support vector machine (SVM) and a histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) were applied to classify images of the human gait in order to meet the objectives. Observations show that, under consideration of the mean of the individual accuracies, the accuracy of recognition is in the following order: clothing > normal walk > carrying at a 90° angle. Measurement accuracy of 87.9% was achieved for the coat-wearing people and measurement accuracy of 83.33% was achieved for all the mentioned covariates. The accuracy of the clothing covariate stated as 87.9% is a useful for people especially for different season like winter.