Pentagon Developing System To ID People By Their Walk
Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 10:36 am
Pentagon Developing System To ID People By Their Walk
POSTED: 9:03 a.m. EDT May 20, 2003
The Pentagon is developing a radar-based device that can identify people by the way they walk.
It would be used in a new anti-terrorist surveillance system.
It's based on a theory that an individual's walk is as unique as a signature.
The Georgia Institute of Technology has received $1 million to conduct the research project for the Pentagon and has been successful in identifying people 80 to 95 percent of the time.
The head of the project at Georgia Tech said "one of the nice things about radar" is that it can see through bad weather, darkness, even a heavy robe shrouding the legs -- something video cameras cannot.
He said the radar works even 600 feet away from the subject.
But it's not foolproof. The research head said if a woman decides to wear combat boots instead of her usual shoes, there may be a difference in the way she walks.
POSTED: 9:03 a.m. EDT May 20, 2003
The Pentagon is developing a radar-based device that can identify people by the way they walk.
It would be used in a new anti-terrorist surveillance system.
It's based on a theory that an individual's walk is as unique as a signature.
The Georgia Institute of Technology has received $1 million to conduct the research project for the Pentagon and has been successful in identifying people 80 to 95 percent of the time.
The head of the project at Georgia Tech said "one of the nice things about radar" is that it can see through bad weather, darkness, even a heavy robe shrouding the legs -- something video cameras cannot.
He said the radar works even 600 feet away from the subject.
But it's not foolproof. The research head said if a woman decides to wear combat boots instead of her usual shoes, there may be a difference in the way she walks.
