Accelerometer brainstorming
Lally Singh
lally.singh at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 13:05:20 CEST 2008
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Gilles Casse <gcasse at oralux.net> wrote:
> On Lun 31 mars 2008 10:59, Kalle Happonen a écrit :
>
> > Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you think it's possible to use traits of a person's walk for
> >> identification? Never heard about something like this. Interesting
> >> idea, if it turns out implementable.
> >>
> > I remember seeing some research results about this a few years back.
> > Using a phone with accelerometers they managed to identify different
> > persons from their walk with about a 90% accuracy IIRC. So it seems to
> > be completely feasible, but I doubt that it's trivial.
> >
>
> also this research paper:
> "Footstep identification from pressure signals using hidden markov models"
> http://www.ee.oulu.fi/mvg/files/pdf/pdf_459.pdf
You folks are freaking me out. Outside of tracking people, any other
ideas for why you'd want this?
--
H. Lally Singh
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Virginia Tech
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