BarbieGait: An Identity-Consistent Synthetic Human Dataset with Versatile Cloth-Changing for Gait Recognition

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Main Authors: Cai, Qingyuan, Hou, Saihui, Hu, Xuecai, Huang, Yongzhen
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Published: 2026
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author Cai, Qingyuan
Hou, Saihui
Hu, Xuecai
Huang, Yongzhen
author_facet Cai, Qingyuan
Hou, Saihui
Hu, Xuecai
Huang, Yongzhen
contents Gait recognition, as a reliable biometric technology, has seen rapid development in recent years while it faces significant challenges caused by diverse clothing styles in the real world. This paper introduces BarbieGait, a synthetic gait dataset where real-world subjects are uniquely mapped into a virtual engine to simulate extensive clothing changes while preserving their gait identity information. As a pioneering work, BarbieGait provides a controllable gait data generation method, enabling the production of large datasets to validate cross-clothing issues that are difficult to verify with real-world data. However, the diversity of clothing increases intra-class variance and makes one of the biggest challenges to learning cloth-invariant features under varying clothing conditions. Therefore, we propose GaitCLIF (Gait-oriented CLoth-Invariant Feature) as a robust baseline model for cross-clothing gait recognition. Through extensive experiments, we validate that our method significantly improves cross-clothing performance on BarbieGait and the existing popular gait benchmarks. We believe that BarbieGait, with its extensive cross-clothing gait data, will further advance the capabilities of gait recognition in cross-clothing scenarios and promote progress in related research.
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spellingShingle BarbieGait: An Identity-Consistent Synthetic Human Dataset with Versatile Cloth-Changing for Gait Recognition
Cai, Qingyuan
Hou, Saihui
Hu, Xuecai
Huang, Yongzhen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Gait recognition, as a reliable biometric technology, has seen rapid development in recent years while it faces significant challenges caused by diverse clothing styles in the real world. This paper introduces BarbieGait, a synthetic gait dataset where real-world subjects are uniquely mapped into a virtual engine to simulate extensive clothing changes while preserving their gait identity information. As a pioneering work, BarbieGait provides a controllable gait data generation method, enabling the production of large datasets to validate cross-clothing issues that are difficult to verify with real-world data. However, the diversity of clothing increases intra-class variance and makes one of the biggest challenges to learning cloth-invariant features under varying clothing conditions. Therefore, we propose GaitCLIF (Gait-oriented CLoth-Invariant Feature) as a robust baseline model for cross-clothing gait recognition. Through extensive experiments, we validate that our method significantly improves cross-clothing performance on BarbieGait and the existing popular gait benchmarks. We believe that BarbieGait, with its extensive cross-clothing gait data, will further advance the capabilities of gait recognition in cross-clothing scenarios and promote progress in related research.
title BarbieGait: An Identity-Consistent Synthetic Human Dataset with Versatile Cloth-Changing for Gait Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12221