Gait Recognition in the Wild: A Benchmark

Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu

| First 5 Authors: Zheng Zhu, Xianda Guo, Tian Yang, Junjie Huang, Jiankang Deng

| Summary:

Gait benchmarks empower the research community to train and evaluate
high-performance gait recognition systems. Even though growing efforts have
been devoted to cross-view recognition, academia is restricted by current
existing databases captured in the controlled environment. In this paper, we
contribute a new benchmark for Gait REcognition in the Wild (GREW). The GREW
dataset is constructed from natural videos, which contains hundreds of cameras
and thousands of hours streams in open systems. With tremendous manual
annotations, the GREW consists of 26K identities and 128K sequences with rich
attributes for unconstrained gait recognition. Moreover, we add a distractor
set of over 233K sequences, making it more suitable for real-world
applications. Compared with prevailing predefined cross-view datasets, the GREW
has diverse and practical view variations, as well as more natural challenging
factors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first large-scale dataset
for gait recognition in the wild. Equipped with this benchmark, we dissect the
unconstrained gait recognition problem. Representative appearance-based and
model-based methods are explored, and comprehensive baselines are established.
Experimental results show (1) The proposed GREW benchmark is necessary for
training and evaluating gait recognizer in the wild. (2) For state-of-the-art
gait recognition approaches, there is a lot of room for improvement. (3) The
GREW benchmark can be used as effective pre-training for controlled gait
recognition. Benchmark website is https://www.grew-benchmark.org/.

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