Biometrics: walk the walk but don’t get caught

by: trendlover June 11, 2008

Suspects, start worrying, because this trendy new way for catching criminals sounds promising. Researchers in India are developing a new form of biometrics that will enable the detection of suspicious individuals based on the way they walk. In case you didn’t know, the term Biometrics has recently expanded to include “the study of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon…physical or behavioral traits.” Well, if that doesn’t explain it enough: “…human gait typifies the motion characteristics of an individual. Viewed from the side, we each have a unique gait that makes us easily recognizable..a camera with a side view can record a set of key frames, or stances, as a person heads for the security desk at an airport, military installation or bank, for instance. Key frames over the person’s complete walk cycle, can then be…used to classify the person’s gait.’’

And that, my friends. is how we catch the bad guys.

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Trend Original: C. Nandini of the Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology, C.N. Ravi Kumar of the S.J. College of Engineering in Mysore, India

Trend Spotter: Science Daily

topics: science

tags: biometrics, gestures, personality, walking