Gait biometrics enable identification and authentication
“I know his gait, ‘tis he.–Villain, thou diest!”
– Othello, act V, scene 1
William Shakespeare mentioned in several plays that you could recognize a person by the way he walked. Yet it’s taken hundreds of years for researchers to discover the science behind gait biometrics and make it a viable identification tool.
Professor Mark Nixon of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the UK’s University of Southampton became interested in gait in the early 1990s during the Jamie Bulger murder case.
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