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A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2020) | Viewed by 16071

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Dr. Manuel J Marin-Jimenez

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Dpt. de Informática y Análisis Numérico, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, 14071, Córdoba, Spain
Interests: human-centric video understanding; object detection; machine learning

Dr. Nicolás Guil-Mata

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Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores, ETSI Informatica. Boulevar Louis Pasteur, Campus de Teatinos, 29071 Málaga, Spain
Interests: computer vision techniques for video processing; accelerator-based high performance computing; video applications on embedded heterogeneous systems
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Dear Colleagues,

Gait is a unique pattern that identifies a person and, therefore, it can be used to distinguish a subject even without requiring his participation. In addition to classical RGB cameras, other type of sensors can be used to capture gait motion such as, for example, depth sensors, infrared sensors, gyroscopes, and accelerometers. Note that not all sensors are suitable for all possible situations. For example, an infrared sensor will be more useful during nighttime.

The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight and promote the benefits of using various types of sensor in gait-based people identification, i.e., from a biometric point of view, including gender recognition, apparent age estimation, and so on. Specifically, we are interested in original works presenting new approaches involving any kind of sensors (inertial, depth, RGB, etc.) and their combinations. In addition, works introducing and benchmarking new large realistic annotated datasets for gait recognition or including multiple people in the same scene are also welcome.

Dr. Manuel J Marin-Jimenez
Prof. Dr. Nicolás Guil Mata
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Keywords

Novel gait descriptors
Soft biometrics based on gait
Multimodal gait recognition
View-invariant gait recognition
Information fusion for gait recognition
Incremental learning for gait recognition
Semi- and weakly supervised learning for gait
Algorithms for effective transfer learning applied to gait recognition
Multi-task learning applied to gait
New challenging datasets with complex scenarios (e.g. multi-subject, multi-sensor, etc.)

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23 pages, 3718 KiB

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Non-Linear Template-Based Approach for the Study of Locomotion

by Tristan Dot, Flavien Quijoux, Laurent Oudre, Aliénor Vienne-Jumeau, Albane Moreau, Pierre-Paul Vidal and Damien Ricard

Sensors 2020, 20(7), 1939; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s20071939 - 30 Mar 2020

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The automatic detection of gait events (i.e., Initial Contact (IC) and Final Contact (FC)) is crucial for the characterisation of gait from Inertial Measurements Units. In this article, we present a method for detecting steps (i.e., IC and FC) from signals of gait sequences of individuals recorded with a gyrometer. The proposed approach combines the use of a dictionary of templates and a Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) measure of fit to retrieve these templates into input signals. Several strategies for choosing and learning the adequate templates from annotated data are also described. The method is tested on thirteen healthy subjects and compared to gold standard. Depending of the template choice, the proposed algorithm achieves average errors from 0.01 to 0.03 s for the detection of IC, FC and step duration. Results demonstrate that the use of DTW allows achieving these performances with only one single template. DTW is a convenient tool to perform pattern recognition on gait gyrometer signals. This study paves the way for new step detection methods: it shows that using one single template associated with non-linear deformations may be sufficient to model the gait of healthy subjects. Full article

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MuPeG—The Multiple Person Gait Framework

by Rubén Delgado-Escaño, Francisco M. Castro, Julián R. Cózar, Manuel J. Marín-Jiménez and Nicolás Guil

Sensors 2020, 20(5), 1358; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s20051358 - 02 Mar 2020

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Gait recognition is being employed as an effective approach to identify people without requiring subject collaboration. Nowadays, developed techniques for this task are obtaining high performance on current datasets (usually more than

90 %

of accuracy). However, those datasets are simple as they [...] Read more.

90 %

of accuracy). However, those datasets are simple as they only contain one subject in the scene at the same time. This fact limits the extrapolation of the results to real world conditions where, usually, multiple subjects are simultaneously present at the scene, generating different types of occlusions and requiring better tracking methods and models trained to deal with those situations. Thus, with the aim of evaluating more realistic and challenging situations appearing in scenarios with multiple subjects, we release a new framework (MuPeG) that generates augmented datasets with multiple subjects using existing datasets as input. By this way, it is not necessary to record and label new videos, since it is automatically done by our framework. In addition, based on the use of datasets generated by our framework, we propose an experimental methodology that describes how to use datasets with multiple subjects and the recommended experiments that are necessary to perform. Moreover, we release the first experimental results using datasets with multiple subjects. In our case, we use an augmented version of TUM-GAID and CASIA-B datasets obtained with our framework. In these augmented datasets the obtained accuracies are

54.8 %

and

42.3 %

whereas in the original datasets (single subject), the same model achieved

99.7 %

and

98.0 %

for TUM-GAID and CASIA-B, respectively. The performance drop shows clearly that the difficulty of datasets with multiple subjects in the scene is much higher than the ones reported in the literature for a single subject. Thus, our proposed framework is able to generate useful datasets with multiple subjects which are more similar to real life situations. Full article

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Recurrent Neural Network for Inertial Gait User Recognition in Smartphones

by Pablo Fernandez-Lopez, Judith Liu-Jimenez, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Yang Wu and Raul Sanchez-Reillo

Sensors 2019, 19(18), 4054; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s19184054 - 19 Sep 2019

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In this article, a gait recognition algorithm is presented based on the information obtained from inertial sensors embedded in a smartphone, in particular, the accelerometers and gyroscopes typically embedded on them. The algorithm processes the signal by extracting gait cycles, which are then fed into a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to generate feature vectors. To optimize the accuracy of this algorithm, we apply a random grid hyperparameter selection process followed by a hand-tuning method to reach the final hyperparameter configuration. The different configurations are tested on a public database with 744 users and compared with other algorithms that were previously tested on the same database. After reaching the best-performing configuration for our algorithm, we obtain an equal error rate (EER) of 11.48% when training with only 20% of the users. Even better, when using 70% of the users for training, that value drops to 7.55%. The system manages to improve on state-of-the-art methods, but we believe the algorithm could reach a significantly better performance if it was trained with more visits per user. With a large enough database with several visits per user, the algorithm could improve substantially. Full article

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User Identification from Gait Analysis Using Multi-Modal Sensors in Smart Insole

by Sang-Il Choi, Jucheol Moon, Hee-Chan Park and Sang Tae Choi

Sensors 2019, 19(17), 3785; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s19173785 - 31 Aug 2019

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Recent studies indicate that individuals can be identified by their gait pattern. A number of sensors including vision, acceleration, and pressure have been used to capture humans’ gait patterns, and a number of methods have been developed to recognize individuals from their gait pattern data. This study proposes a novel method of identifying individuals using null-space linear discriminant analysis on humans’ gait pattern data. The gait pattern data consists of time series pressure and acceleration data measured from multi-modal sensors in a smart insole used while walking. We compare the identification accuracies from three sensing modalities, which are acceleration, pressure, and both in combination. Experimental results show that the proposed multi-modal features identify 14 participants with high accuracy over 95% from their gait pattern data of walking. Full article

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