Radar micro-Doppler for long range front-view gait recognition

  • Authors:
  • Dave Tahmoush;Jerry Silvious

  • Affiliations:
  • US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD;US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

  • Venue:
  • BTAS'09 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE international conference on Biometrics: Theory, applications and systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We seek to understand the extraction of radar micro-Doppler signals generated by human motions at long range and with a front-view to use them as a biometric. We describe micro-Doppler algorithms used for the detection and tracking, and detail the gait features that can be extracted. We have measurements of multiple human subjects in outdoor but low-clutter backgrounds for identification and find that at long range and front-view, the probability of correct classification can be over 80%. However, the micro-Doppler signals are dependent on the direction of motion, and we discuss methods to reduce the effect of the direction of motion. These radar biometric features can serve as identifying features in a scene with multiple subjects. Ground truth using video and GPS is used to validate the radar data.