Gait advances in emerging biometrics

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 12:31 PM 12/14/04 -0500, Sunder wrote:
>Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/
>Gait advances in emerging biometrics
>
>By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk)
>Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT
>
>"Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait."
>William Shakespeare, The Tempest
>
>Retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition get most of the
>publicity but researchers across the world are quietly labouring away
at
>alternative types of biometrics.
>
>Recognition by the way someone walk (their gait), the shape of their
ears,
>the rhythm they make when they tap and the involuntary response of ears
to
>sounds all have the potential to raise the stock of biometric
techniques.
>According to Professor Mark Nixon, of the Image Speech and Recognition
>Research Group at the University of Southampton, each has unique
>advantages which makes them worth exploring.

Look up Johansson, et al.  Point light displays.  Yes you can tell
sex, age, etc., from the ratios of rotational axes, etc, but a stone
in the shoe is a bitch.

All faith is in drivers' licenses, a total joke, I got gummies on your
'prints, all your time-derivatives are mine.

But grant$ are good, and flavor$ of DARPA be bitchin.