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Gait, Forensic Evidence of

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Gait analysis; Perpetrator identification

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Forensic evidence of gait, or forensic gait analysis, may be defined as the analyses of gait performed in the service of the law. Usually, this involves the analyses of criminal cases with the aim to characterize the gait of a perpetrator and often to compare the gait of a perpetrator with the gait of a suspect. The results of the analyses may furthermore need to be presented in court. The methods involved in forensic gait analyses comprise morphological assessment of single gait features and kinematic assessment of body movement, often combined with photogrammetrics. The latter means that body segment lengths, stride length, etc. may be quantified and used in direct comparisons.

Introduction

Forensic analysis of gait has a lot of common ground with biometric gait recognition, but there are also some major differences. In terms of image capture, the imagery used in forensic gait analysis is mostly always acquired from CCTV,...

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  1. Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Niels Lynnerup & Peter K. Larsen

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security, Research & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil K. Jain

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Lynnerup, N., Larsen, P.K. (2015). Gait, Forensic Evidence of. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_43

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