Research Article

Gait Recognition Using Spatio-Temporal Information of 3D Point Cloud via Millimeter Wave Radar

Table 1

A review of various conventional studies on radar-based personal identification.

ReferencesData setMethodNumber and type of radarRecognition accuracy

[16]20 volunteers
2,880 radar signals each lasting 10 seconds
A deep network constructed from several individually sparse AEs
The input data are μ D signals
Using a single radar
A continuous wave Doppler radar, the ST200 system by RFbeam
The recognition accuracy of single person on random routes can reach 96.20%.

[17]8 volunteers
Total 40,000 frames
Multichannel 3D convolutional neural network
Gait point cloud data as input
Using a single radar
IWR1443BOOST
The recognition accuracy of single person on random routes can reach 93%

[18]10 volunteers
Total 1500 samples
2.3 seconds per sample
Input the gait spectrum map into the convolutional neural networkUsing a single radar
AWR1443
The recognition accuracy of single person on fixed and random routes can reach 91% and 90%

[19]4 volunteers
100000 frames of data
Input point cloud data into multibranch CNN networksUsing a single radar
CAL60S244 IBM AiP
The recognition accuracy of single person on random routes can reach 85.8%

[20]6 volunteers
Three environments
Total 75 minutes of data
Input point cloud data into spatio-temporal graph convolutional networkUsing a single radar
IWR6843ISK
The recognition accuracy of single person and two persons on random routes can reach 68.88% and 75.51%

[14]95 volunteers
Total 30 hours of data
Input the five attributes of the point cloud into the CNN networkUsing two radars
IWR6843 and IWR1443
The recognition accuracy of single person and two persons on fixed route can reach 90% and 86%

[15]5 volunteers
150 minutes of gait data
Input the micro-Doppler signature into the DCNN modelUsing a single radar
An FMCW radar device produced by industrial radar systems GmbH
The method achieved an error rate of 24.70% on the validation set and an error rate of 21.54% on the test set

[13]12 volunteers
Total 120 minutes of data
Each frame of data is flattened into a 16000 dimensional vector and fed into the bidirectional LSTMUsing a single radar
IWR1443
The recognition accuracy of single person on random routes can reach 89%