MMRGait-1.0: A Radar Time-frequency Spectrogram Dataset for Gait Recognition under Multi-view and Multi-wearing Conditions

• Published in: Journal of radars = Lei da xue bao Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 892 - 905
• Main Authors: Lan DU, Xiaoyang CHEN, Yu SHI, Shikun XUE, Meng XIE
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. (CSPM) 01.08.2023
• Subjects: gait recognition; millimeter-wave radar; multi-view and multi-wearing conditions; public dataset; retrieval task
• ISSN: 2095-283X
• DOI: 10.12000/JR22227

As a biometric technology, gait recognition is usually considered a retrieval task in real life. However, because of the small scale of the existing radar gait recognition dataset, the current studies mainly focus on classification tasks and only consider the situation of a single walking view and the same wearing condition, limiting the practical application of radar-based gait recognition. This paper provides a radar gait recognition dataset under multi-view and multi-wearing conditions; the dataset uses millimeter-wave radar as a sensor to collect the time-frequency spectrogram data of 121 subjects walking along views under multiple wearing conditions. Eight views were collected for each subject, and ten sets were collected for each view. Six of the ten sets are dressed normally, two are dressed in coats, and the last two are carrying bags. Meanwhile, this paper proposes a method for radar gait recognition based on retrieval tasks. Experiments are conducted on this dataset, and the experimental results can be used as a benchmark to facilitate further research by related scholars on this dataset.