A New View-Calibrated Approach for Abnormal Gait Detection

Kuo Wei Lin, Shu Ting Wang, Pau-Choo Chung, Ching Fang Yang

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Abstract

Gait, or the style of walking, has been recently a popular topic in vision-based analysis. Most vision-based works about gait are devoted to the application of human recognition, but abnormal walking styles are rarely discussed. Accordingly, a vision-based method is proposed to analyze abnormal types of walking. In the proposed method, a background subtraction algorithm is applied to segment out the silhouette of the walker at each frame in a sequence. For each frame, we define a feature based on the length between two legs and the height of the individual, called aspect ratio (AR). By observing this feature value across time (or frame), a periodic wave is obtained. With this analysis, a few abnormal types of walking can be distinguished. Since an oblique camera view angle causes a distortion of the AR wave, a rectification mechanism is proposed based on a camera pinhole model to reduce the view angle effect. The experimental results show that the proposed rectification method identified abnormal walking patterns reliably irrespective of the direction in which the individual walks relative to the camera plane.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 2
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the International Computer
EditorsChang Ruay-Shiung, Peng Sheng-Lung, Lin Chia-Chen
Pages521-529
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013 Jun 28

Publication series

NameSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume21
ISSN (Print)2190-3018
ISSN (Electronic)2190-3026

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Decision Sciences
  • General Computer Science

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