Survey of Gait Recognition with Deep Learning for Mass Surveillance

Gait recognition is a biometric recognition technology that supports long-distance, multi-target recognition with resistance to partial occlusions and does not require active user cooperation; thus, it is more suitable than other technologies for individual identification in mass video surveillance systems. Gait recognition based on deep learning has become the mainstream technology in this field because of its strong self-learning and model prediction abilities. However, there is still a lack of research focusing on actual scenes and application requirements for gait recognition, such as multi-target, real-time, and robust recognition. Therefore, this paper analyzes the basic tasks of deep gait recognition methods and encapsulates the application scope of deep gait recognition. Subsequently, this paper investigates the methods of large-space deep gait recognition from three aspects: image preprocessing, gait feature extraction with deep learning, and classifier and evaluation. In particular, the study investigated and analyzed the gait input templates often used in mass surveillance, auto encoder with deep learning, and performance evaluation indexes for the first time. Finally, the unresolved issues in deep gait recognition are summarized, and suggestions and directions for future research are presented.