Abstract
Gait recognition, known for its ability to identify individuals from a distance, has gained significant attention in recent times due to its non-intrusive verification. While video-based gait identification systems perform well on large public datasets, their performance drops when applied to real-world, unconstrained gait data due to various factors. Among these, uncontrolled outdoor environments, non-overlapping camera views, varying illumination, and computational efficiency are core challenges in gait-based authentication. Currently, no dataset addresses all these challenges simultaneously. In this paper, we propose an OptiGait-LGBM model capable of recognizing person re-identification under these constraints using a skeletal model approach, which helps mitigate inconsistencies in a person's appearance. The model constructs a dataset from landmark positions, minimizing memory usage by using non-sequential data. A benchmark dataset, RUET-GAIT, is introduced to represent uncontrolled gait sequences in complex outdoor environments. The process involves extracting skeletal joint landmarks, generating numerical datasets, and developing an OptiGait-LGBM gait classification model. Our aim is to address the aforementioned challenges with minimal computational cost compared to existing methods. A comparative analysis with ensemble techniques such as Random Forest and CatBoost demonstrates that the proposed approach outperforms them in terms of accuracy, memory usage, and training time. This method provides a novel, low-cost, and memory-efficient video-based gait recognition solution for real-world scenarios.
Abstract (translated)
步态识别因其能够从远处识别个人而不侵扰的特点，在近期引起了广泛关注。基于视频的步态识别系统在大型公共数据集上表现出色，但在实际应用中面对无约束环境时性能下降，这主要是由于不受控的户外环境、摄像机视角不一致、光照变化以及计算效率低下等因素造成的。目前尚无数据集同时解决这些挑战。 本文提出了一种名为OptiGait-LGBM的模型，该模型能够在上述限制条件下进行人员再识别，并使用骨骼模型的方法来减少外观上的不一致性。通过利用关键点的位置构建数据集，该方法能够降低内存消耗并处理非连续的数据。我们还引入了一个基准数据集RUET-GAIT，用于表示复杂户外环境中不受控的步态序列。研究过程包括提取骨骼关节的关键点、生成数值化数据集，并开发OptiGait-LGBM步态分类模型。 我们的目标是在与现有方法相比具有较低计算成本的情况下解决上述挑战。通过与随机森林和CatBoost等集成技术进行比较分析，证明了我们提出的方法在准确率、内存使用量以及训练时间方面均优于这些方法。这种方法提供了一种新颖的、低成本且内存高效的视频步态识别解决方案，适用于实际场景中的应用。
URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08801
