Metric-Based Key Frame Extraction for Gait Recognition

Gait recognition is one of the most promising biometric technologies that can identify individuals at a long distance. From observation, we find that there are differences in the length of the gait cycle and the quality of each frame in the sequence. In this paper, we propose a novel gait recognition framework to analyze human gait. On the one hand, we designed the Multi-scale Temporal Aggregation (MTA) module that models temporal and aggregate contextual information with different scales, on the other hand, we introduce the Metric-based Frame Attention Mechanism (MFAM) to re-weight each frame by the importance score, which calculates using the distance between frame-level features and sequence-level features. We evaluate our model on two of the most popular public datasets, CASIA-B and OU-MVLP. For normal walking, the rank-1 accuracies on the two datasets are 97.6% and 90.1%, respectively. In complex scenarios, the proposed method achieves accuracies of 94.8% and 84.9% on CASIA-B under bag-carrying and coat-wearing walking conditions. The results show that our method achieves the top level among state-of-the-art methods.