Explainable gait recognition with prototyping encoder-decoder

PLoS One. 2022 Mar 11;17(3):e0264783. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264783. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Human gait is a unique behavioral characteristic that can be used to recognize individuals. Collecting gait information widely by the means of wearable devices and recognizing people by the data has become a topic of research. While most prior studies collected gait information using inertial measurement units, we gather the data from 40 people using insoles, including pressure sensors, and precisely identify the gait phases from the long time series using the pressure data. In terms of recognizing people, there have been a few recent studies on neural network-based approaches for solving the open set gait recognition problem using wearable devices. Typically, these approaches determine decision boundaries in the latent space with a limited number of samples. Motivated by the fact that such methods are sensitive to the values of hyper-parameters, as our first contribution, we propose a new network model that is less sensitive to changes in the values using a new prototyping encoder-decoder network architecture. As our second contribution, to overcome the inherent limitations due to the lack of transparency and interpretability of neural networks, we propose a new module that enables us to analyze which part of the input is relevant to the overall recognition performance using explainable tools such as sensitivity analysis (SA) and layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Apathy*
  • Gait
  • Humans
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Recognition, Psychology
  • Wearable Electronic Devices*

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grants (No. 2021R1A2C3004345 and No. 2021R1A2B5B01001412) funded by the Korea government (MSIT) and by the Republic of Koreas MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), under the High-Potential Individuals Global Training Program) (No. 2020-0-01463) supervised by the IITP (Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning Evaluation).