Gait Pattern Recognition: There is an extensive amount of academic research on the human gait being used in the area of biometrics. Gait pattern recognition, as outlined below, is primarily being conducted under the heading of Human ID at a Distance, or HID. Below is a list of major academic research centers, as well as individuals, focused on the study of gait recognition as a biometric.

Research Groups

Automatic Gait Recognition for Human ID at a Distance
This is a program run out of the University of Southampton under the direction of Mark Dixon and John Carter, who oversee a large amount of researchers, all of whom are doing post doctorate work in the field of gait recognition ... more >

Human ID at a Distance at Georgia Tech GVU Center/College of Computing
They are developing ways to identify humans at a distance. The primary focus of their work is on gait recognition. They propose a technique that recovers static body and stride parameters of subjects as they walk ... more >

VTT Electronics - Identifying people from gait pattern with accelerometers
This pdf is of a study conducted under Finland's national research group (VTT) in 2006 that achieved gait recognition using an accelerometer. They are looking at ways of attaching gait identification with mobile devices and other intelligent environments ... more >

Individuals

Edward Sazonov (Clarkson University, New York)
Mr. Sazonov has created a sensor shoe that provides biofeedback to investigate how age-related decreases in proprioceptive abilities are associated with falls and injury in the elderly. Although not directly aimed at gait pattern recognition this study recognized five distinct gait patterns, as derived from his sensor shoe prototype... more >

Sudeep Sarkar (University of South Florida)
Mr. Sarkar is researching various ways of identifying humans at a distance, but is primarily focusing on gait. He is trying to generate data sets to build baseline performance metrics for selected biometric approaches ... more >

Mark Dawson - Gait Recognition (Imperial College, London)
This is a pdf of Mr. Dawson's paper on gait recognition as related to biometrics. Conducted in 2002, it is a comprehensive breakdown of gait pattern recognition, and the methods used... more >

Kevin W. Bowyer (University of Norte Damn)
Mr. Bowyer's research interests are in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition. He is currently active in projects in the area of biometrics or the area of data mining. A lot of his work has been on gait pattern recognition ... more >

Amit Kale (University of Maryland)
Mr. Kale has proposed a method for synthesizing arbitrary views of plantar objects, and applying the synthesized views for gait recognition when people are walking at any arbitrary angle to the camera. ... more >