EventGait: Towards Robust Gait Recognition with Event Streams

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Hauptverfasser: Xu, Senyan, Chen, Shuai, Shen, Chuanfu, Liu, Kean, Sun, Zhijing, Cao, Chengzhi, Fu, Xueyang
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author Xu, Senyan
Chen, Shuai
Shen, Chuanfu
Liu, Kean
Sun, Zhijing
Cao, Chengzhi
Fu, Xueyang
author_facet Xu, Senyan
Chen, Shuai
Shen, Chuanfu
Liu, Kean
Sun, Zhijing
Cao, Chengzhi
Fu, Xueyang
contents Gait recognition enables non-intrusive, privacy-preserving identification but suffers in uncontrolled environments due to illumination and motion sensitivity of conventional cameras. In this work, we explore gait recognition using event cameras, which offer microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, naturally capturing robust dynamic cues and suppressing static noise. Existing event-based approaches typically aggregate event streams into event images over long time windows, thereby discarding fine-grained motion dynamics critical for gait recognition. Therefore, we propose \textbf{EventGait}, an end-to-end dual-stream framework that separately models motion and shape while preserving the advantages of events. Our dynamic stream leverages a Mixture of Spiking Experts (MoSE) with diverse neuron constants for robust dynamic perception across complex motion and illumination scenes, while the static stream learns dense shape representations via Cross-modal Structure Alignment (CroSA) with large vision foundation models. To address the absence of large-scale event-based gait datasets, we introduce a synthesis pipeline and release two new benchmarks: SUSTech1K-E and CCGR-Mini-E. Extensive experiments have shown that event-based gait recognition not only achieves results comparable to camera-based gait recognition under normal conditions but also significantly outperforms it in low-light scenarios. Our approach sets a new state of the art on both synthesized and real-world event-based gait benchmarks, highlighting the robustness and potential of event-driven gait analysis. The code and datasets are released at https://github.com/QUEAHREN/EventGait.
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spellingShingle EventGait: Towards Robust Gait Recognition with Event Streams
Xu, Senyan
Chen, Shuai
Shen, Chuanfu
Liu, Kean
Sun, Zhijing
Cao, Chengzhi
Fu, Xueyang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Gait recognition enables non-intrusive, privacy-preserving identification but suffers in uncontrolled environments due to illumination and motion sensitivity of conventional cameras. In this work, we explore gait recognition using event cameras, which offer microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, naturally capturing robust dynamic cues and suppressing static noise. Existing event-based approaches typically aggregate event streams into event images over long time windows, thereby discarding fine-grained motion dynamics critical for gait recognition. Therefore, we propose \textbf{EventGait}, an end-to-end dual-stream framework that separately models motion and shape while preserving the advantages of events. Our dynamic stream leverages a Mixture of Spiking Experts (MoSE) with diverse neuron constants for robust dynamic perception across complex motion and illumination scenes, while the static stream learns dense shape representations via Cross-modal Structure Alignment (CroSA) with large vision foundation models. To address the absence of large-scale event-based gait datasets, we introduce a synthesis pipeline and release two new benchmarks: SUSTech1K-E and CCGR-Mini-E. Extensive experiments have shown that event-based gait recognition not only achieves results comparable to camera-based gait recognition under normal conditions but also significantly outperforms it in low-light scenarios. Our approach sets a new state of the art on both synthesized and real-world event-based gait benchmarks, highlighting the robustness and potential of event-driven gait analysis. The code and datasets are released at https://github.com/QUEAHREN/EventGait.
title EventGait: Towards Robust Gait Recognition with Event Streams
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22139