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Gait identification using fractal analysis and support vector machine

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This paper presents the development of wearable sensing system that can be used to study the gait dynamics of human. A tester wearing sensing shoes participates in this study. Human gait information about standing, jumping and walking is obtained as prior probability based on the train movement model setup theory. For feature extraction of gait, five kinds of features are extracted from foot pressure signals, which are subsequently used for motion analysis. We employ support vector machine and fractal analysis for gait recognition and test the identification performance. Testing outcomes indicate an overall accuracy of 93.57% via radial basis function kernel function. These results demonstrate considerable potential in gait identification.

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Project is supported by Shanghai municipal commission of health and family planning key developing discipline (No. 4122015ZB0401); Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China (No. 2018JJ2023); the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (CN) (Nos. 14ZR1429800, 15ZR1430000), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (No. EIA140412).

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People’s Republic of China

    Wen Si & Jie Jia

  2. College of Information and Computer Science, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, 201400, People’s Republic of China

    Wen Si

  3. Department of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang, 413000, People’s Republic of China

    Gelan Yang

  4. Department of Rehabilitation, Jing’an District Centre Hospital, Shanghai, 200040, People’s Republic of China

    XiangGui Chen

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Si, W., Yang, G., Chen, X. et al. Gait identification using fractal analysis and support vector machine. Soft Comput 23, 9287–9297 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3609-8

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