A general tensor representation framework for cross-view gait recognition

Xianye Ben, Peng Zhang, Zhihui Lai, Rui Yan, Xinliang Zhai, Weixiao Meng

Abstract: Tensor analysis methods have played an important role in identifying human gaits using high dimensional data. However, when view angles change, it becomes more and more difficult to recognize cross-view gait by learning only a set of multi-linear projection matrices. To address this problem, a general tensor representation framework for cross-view gait recognition is proposed in this paper. There are three criteria of tensorial coupled mappings in the proposed framework. (1) Coupled multi-linear locality-preserved criterion (CMLP) aims to detect the essential tensorial manifold structure via preserving local information. (2) Coupled multi-linear marginal fisher criterion (CMMF) aims to encode the intra-class compactness and inter-class separability with local relationships. (3) Coupled multi-linear discriminant analysis criterion (CMDA) aims to minimize the intra-class scatter and maximize the inter-class scatter. For the three tensor algorithms for cross-view gaits, two sets of multi-linear projection matrices are iteratively learned using alternating projection optimization procedures. The proposed methods are compared with the recently published cross-view gait recognition approaches on CASIA(B) and OU-ISIR gait database. The results demonstrate that the performances of the proposed methods are superior to existing state-of-the-art cross-view gait recognition approaches.