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Main Authors: Bauer, Eva Katharina, Bultmann, Simon, Behnke, Sven
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09538
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author Bauer, Eva Katharina
Bultmann, Simon
Behnke, Sven
author_facet Bauer, Eva Katharina
Bultmann, Simon
Behnke, Sven
contents The human gait is a complex interplay between the neuronal and the muscular systems, reflecting an individual's neurological and physiological condition. This makes gait analysis a valuable tool for biomechanics and medical experts. Traditional observational gait analysis is cost-effective but lacks reliability and accuracy, while instrumented gait analysis, particularly using marker-based optical systems, provides accurate data but is expensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we introduce a novel markerless approach for gait analysis using a multi-camera setup with smart edge sensors to estimate 3D body poses without fiducial markers. We propose a Siamese embedding network with triplet loss calculation to identify individuals by their gait pattern. This network effectively maps gait sequences to an embedding space that enables clustering sequences from the same individual or activity closely together while separating those of different ones. Our results demonstrate the potential of the proposed system for efficient automated gait analysis in diverse real-world environments, facilitating a wide range of applications.
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spellingShingle Marker-free Human Gait Analysis using a Smart Edge Sensor System
Bauer, Eva Katharina
Bultmann, Simon
Behnke, Sven
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The human gait is a complex interplay between the neuronal and the muscular systems, reflecting an individual's neurological and physiological condition. This makes gait analysis a valuable tool for biomechanics and medical experts. Traditional observational gait analysis is cost-effective but lacks reliability and accuracy, while instrumented gait analysis, particularly using marker-based optical systems, provides accurate data but is expensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we introduce a novel markerless approach for gait analysis using a multi-camera setup with smart edge sensors to estimate 3D body poses without fiducial markers. We propose a Siamese embedding network with triplet loss calculation to identify individuals by their gait pattern. This network effectively maps gait sequences to an embedding space that enables clustering sequences from the same individual or activity closely together while separating those of different ones. Our results demonstrate the potential of the proposed system for efficient automated gait analysis in diverse real-world environments, facilitating a wide range of applications.
title Marker-free Human Gait Analysis using a Smart Edge Sensor System
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09538