Accelerometer brainstorming

Hugo Mills hugo-om at carfax.org.uk
Fri Mar 28 18:37:44 CET 2008


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 06:18:51PM +0100, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:59:38 +0100, Crane, Matthew <mcrane03 at harris.com>  
> wrote:
> >* Use acell data to charecterize person carrying the phone (as many
> >couples out there will share phones, or give to children) and tie into
> >user profile.
> 
> 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.

   Gait analysis (from video footage) can be used to identify
people[1]. Whether it's possible to do so using accelerometer data
is an interesting question.

   Hugo.

[1] http://www.gait.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

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