As a uncommon biometric modality, human gait recognition has a great advantage of identify people at a
distance without high resolution images. It has attracted much attention in recent years, especially in the
fields of computer vision and remote sensing. In this paper, we propose a human gait recognition framework
that consists of a reliable background subtraction method followed by the pyramid of Histogram of Gradient
(pHOG) feature extraction on the silhouette image, and a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based classifier.
Through background subtraction, the silhouette of human gait in each frame is extracted and normalized from
the raw video sequence. After removing the shadow and noise in each region of interest (ROI), pHOG feature
is computed on the silhouettes images. Then the pHOG features of each gait class will be used to train a
corresponding HMM. In the test stage, pHOG feature will be extracted from each test sequence and used to
calculate the posterior probability toward each trained HMM model. Experimental results on the CASIA Gait
Dataset B1 demonstrate that with our proposed method can achieve very competitive recognition rate.
Multiple modalities sensor fusion has been widely employed in various surveillance and military applications. A
variety of image fusion techniques including PCA, wavelet, curvelet and HSV has been proposed in recent years
to improve human visual perception for object detection. One of the main challenges for visible and infrared
image fusion is to automatically determine an optimal fusion strategy for different input scenes along with an
acceptable computational cost.
This paper, we propose a fast and adaptive feature selection based image fusion method to obtain high a
contrast image from visible and infrared sensors for targets detection. At first, fuzzy c-means clustering is applied
on the infrared image to highlight possible hotspot regions, which will be considered as potential targets' locations.
After that, the region surrounding the target area is segmented as the background regions. Then image fusion
is locally applied on the selected target and background regions by computing different linear combination of
color components from registered visible and infrared images. After obtaining different fused images, histogram
distributions are computed on these local fusion images as the fusion feature set. The variance ratio which
is based on Linear Discriminative Analysis (LDA) measure is employed to sort the feature set and the most
discriminative one is selected for the whole image fusion. As the feature selection is performed over time, the
process will dynamically determine the most suitable feature for the image fusion in different scenes. Experiment
is conducted on the OSU Color-Thermal database, and TNO Human Factor dataset. The fusion results indicate
that our proposed method achieved a competitive performance compared with other fusion algorithms at a
relatively low computational cost.
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