Title
Gait recognition from corrupted silhouettes: a robust statistical approach.
Abstract
This paper introduces a method based on robust statistics to build reliable gait signatures from averaging silhouette descriptions, mainly when gait sequences are affected by severe and persistent defects. The term robust refers to the ability of reducing the impact of silhouette defects (outliers) on the average gait pattern, while taking advantage of clean silhouette regions. An extensive experimental framework was defined based on injecting three types of realistic defects (salt and pepper noise, static occlusion, and dynamic occlusion) to clean gait sequences, both separately in an easy setting and jointly in a hard setting. The robust approach was compared against two other operation modes: (1) simple mean (weak baseline) and (2) defect exclusion (strong benchmark). Three gait representation methods based on silhouette averaging were used: Gait Energy Image (GEI), Gradient Histogram Energy Image (GHEI), and the joint use of GEI and HOG descriptors. Quality of gait signatures was assessed by their discriminant power in a large number of gait recognition tasks. Nonparametric statistical tests were applied on recognition results, searching for significant differences between operation modes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s00138-016-0798-y
Mach. Vis. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gait recognition,Model-free,Noisy silhouettes,Occluded silhouettes,Robust statistics
Computer vision,Histogram,Gait,Pattern recognition,Silhouette,Discriminant,Computer science,Salt-and-pepper noise,Outlier,Robust statistics,Nonparametric statistics,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
1-2
0932-8092
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
23
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier Ortells172.20
Ramón A. Mollineda238320.41
Boris Mederos3767.23
Raúl Martín-Félez4492.59