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Gait analysis is a more surveillable fingerprint anyway, since it can work with lower resolution cameras. Tag someone on a high res camera with facial recogniti
by TechBro8615 4y ago
Gait analysis is a more surveillable fingerprint anyway, since it can work with lower resolution cameras. Tag someone on a high res camera with facial recognition and as long as you've seen their gait once, you'll be able to identify them again.
- jamiek88 4y agoStones in our shoes, masks on our faces, strobing hoodies a boring dystopia indeed.
- TechBro8615 4y agoDiscussed previously, apparently (found via Google search for `anti gait recognition shoes`, lol): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18401892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18401892 I like the comment about the Ministry of Silly Walks.
- mananaysiempre 4y agoIIRC stones in shoes as a gait recognition defence were a plot point in Doctorow’s Little Brother (2008).
- jamiek88 4y agoYeah I read that in a novel too. It’s a common idea.
- beardedwizard 4y agoBecause spies actively use the technique and it's routinely discussed in that setting.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoAn uncomfortable and time consuming one indeed.
- pvarangot 4y agoI don't think gait analysis would hold itself through a trial or be bought by a jury. Maybe to correlate different videos of possibly different suspects? But if you are getting regularly videoed by security cameras while circumventing rules you are probably already wearing different shoes or pants and that can go a long way to defeat gait analysis algos.
- devmor 4y agoIt's quite literally more accurate than fingerprint or blood splatter analysis and those send people to prison on a daily basis - despite being little more than snake oil techniques.
- zirgs 4y agoHere's a handy guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks#/media/File:Silly_Walk_Gait.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks#/m...
- jandrese 4y agoHas gait analysis been studied by people other than the ones selling gait monitoring equipment? It smells to me like bite mark analysis, blood splatter analysis, polygraphs, and other "miracle" technologies/techniques that turned out to be horsecrap.
- mcbits 4y agoThere are people I know that I can recognize by the way they walk, so the idea is at least plausible. I think the main problem is/will be from using the analysis inappropriately. It's one thing to narrow down a city-sized population to a list of 50 people known to walk with a similar gait, and then follow up with other forms of investigation before drawing conclusions. It's another for a cop to look at the top match and go arrest that guy, as they've done more than once with facial recognition.
- anigbrowl 4y agoGait analysis is absurdly over hyped. I wish people would stop trying to win arguments by mentioning at think twice about the numerous failure cases.