Accelerometer brainstorming

Gilles Casse gcasse at oralux.net
Mon Mar 31 12:45:37 CEST 2008


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


Gilles





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