Decomposing biological motion: A framework for analysis and synthesis of human gait patterns

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 371-387

  Troje, Nikolaus F ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animate motion; Gender classification; Recognition; Social recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; CODING; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAIT; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBSERVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL INFORMATION; ALGORITHM; GENDER IDENTITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GAIT; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0036979814     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.5.2     Document Type: Article

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