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Key-Frame-Aware Hierarchical Learning for Robust Gait Recognition.

Ke Wang^1,2, Hua Huo¹

¹College of Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.

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|November 26, 2025

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HierarchGait improves gait recognition in challenging conditions by learning anatomical features and key movement moments. This hierarchical framework achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmark datasets, enhancing biometric security.

Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Biometrics
Machine Learning

Background:

Gait recognition faces challenges in unconstrained environments due to view, clothing, and carrying variations.
Existing methods struggle to robustly capture comprehensive gait dynamics under diverse conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel hierarchical learning framework, HierarchGait, for robust gait recognition.
To effectively address variations in view, clothing, and carrying conditions in unconstrained environments.

Main Methods:

Introduced HierarchGait, a key-frame-aware hierarchical learning framework.
Integrated TemplateBlock-based Motion Extraction (TBME) for anatomical feature learning.
Utilized Sequence-Level Spatio-temporal Feature Aggregator (SSFA) and Frame-level Feature Re-segmentation Extractor (FFRE) for discriminative key-frame and fine-grained motion detail capture.

Keywords:

frame-level feature re-segmentation gait recognition hierarchical spatio-temporal representation key-frames

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Main Results:

Achieved state-of-the-art average Rank-1 accuracies on CASIA-B: 98.1% (Normal), 95.9% (Bag), and 87.5% (Coat).
Attained 91.5% average accuracy on the large-scale OU-MVLP dataset.
Demonstrated superior performance in recognizing gait under various challenging conditions.

Conclusions:

Explicitly modeling anatomical hierarchies and temporal key-moments significantly enhances gait recognition robustness.
HierarchGait provides a powerful and comprehensive approach for unconstrained gait-based biometrics.