At 12:31 PM 12/14/04 -0500, Sunder wrote: >Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ >Gait advances in emerging biometrics > >By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) >Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT > >"Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait." >William Shakespeare, The Tempest > >Retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition get most of the >publicity but researchers across the world are quietly labouring away at >alternative types of biometrics. > >Recognition by the way someone walk (their gait), the shape of their ears, >the rhythm they make when they tap and the involuntary response of ears to >sounds all have the potential to raise the stock of biometric techniques. >According to Professor Mark Nixon, of the Image Speech and Recognition >Research Group at the University of Southampton, each has unique >advantages which makes them worth exploring.
Look up Johansson, et al. Point light displays. Yes you can tell sex, age, etc., from the ratios of rotational axes, etc, but a stone in the shoe is a bitch. All faith is in drivers' licenses, a total joke, I got gummies on your 'prints, all your time-derivatives are mine. But grant$ are good, and flavor$ of DARPA be bitchin.