Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT

Gait modelling is essential for many applications including animation, activity recognition, medical diagnosis, and robotics. Many researchers have worked on mathematically express the movement of human bodies. At the current stage, the reconstructed waveforms from the mathematical expressions eit...

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Main Authors: Han, Yi Chiew, Wong, Kiing Ing, Murray, Iain
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institution of Engineering and Technology 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81450
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author Han, Yi Chiew
Wong, Kiing Ing
Murray, Iain
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Wong, Kiing Ing
Murray, Iain
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description Gait modelling is essential for many applications including animation, activity recognition, medical diagnosis, and robotics. Many researchers have worked on mathematically express the movement of human bodies. At the current stage, the reconstructed waveforms from the mathematical expressions either represent smoothened waveforms, noisy, or require a high number of computations. In this study, the thigh and shank angle waveforms are time and amplitude scaled before performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT). By doing so, the correlation coefficient between the original and reconstructed waveforms can be improved without increasing the number of harmonics. The shank's angular velocity is also recalculated from the reconstructed shank's angle waveform for gait phase detection, and shows accurate results in heel and toe strikes estimation when compared to the original shank's angular velocity. Additionally, the harmonic components of the waveforms are used for gait recognition. Experimental results show that it is useful to time and amplitude-scale the angle waveforms to ‘enlarge’ the distinctive regions of the angle waveforms for better classification accuracy
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-814502020-12-02T06:27:19Z Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT Han, Yi Chiew Wong, Kiing Ing Murray, Iain Gait modelling is essential for many applications including animation, activity recognition, medical diagnosis, and robotics. Many researchers have worked on mathematically express the movement of human bodies. At the current stage, the reconstructed waveforms from the mathematical expressions either represent smoothened waveforms, noisy, or require a high number of computations. In this study, the thigh and shank angle waveforms are time and amplitude scaled before performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT). By doing so, the correlation coefficient between the original and reconstructed waveforms can be improved without increasing the number of harmonics. The shank's angular velocity is also recalculated from the reconstructed shank's angle waveform for gait phase detection, and shows accurate results in heel and toe strikes estimation when compared to the original shank's angular velocity. Additionally, the harmonic components of the waveforms are used for gait recognition. Experimental results show that it is useful to time and amplitude-scale the angle waveforms to ‘enlarge’ the distinctive regions of the angle waveforms for better classification accuracy 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81450 10.1049/iet-spr.2020.0005 Institution of Engineering and Technology fulltext
spellingShingle Han, Yi Chiew
Wong, Kiing Ing
Murray, Iain
Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT
title Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT
title_full Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT
title_fullStr Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT
title_full_unstemmed Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT
title_short Accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before DFT
title_sort accurate gait modelling based on waveform scaling before dft
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81450