The study evaluates binary sex estimation from footwear outsole impressions using convolutional neural network (CNN) transfer learning compared to traditional feature-based classification. Fine‑tuned CNNs outperform classifiers that rely solely on handcrafted, geometric, and metadata descriptors, while frozen‑feature approaches provide a less computationally intensive alternative. Exploratory analysis links low‑dimensional CNN representations to measurable image properties such as frequency threshold ratio, contrast, and wavelet summaries, indicating that CNNs capture additional discriminative information.
By Jinyi Niu, Ziyi Song, Weining Shen
arXiv:2606. 24586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning approaches to biometric verification are commonly trained by optimizing indirect objectives, creating a misalignment between the optimization process and the primary evaluation metric, typically the Equal Error Rate (EER).
By Nahuel Gonzalez, Marta Robledo-Moreno, Ivan DeAndres-Tame, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben Tolosana
arXiv:2512. 00691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gait patterns play a critical role in human identification and healthcare analytics, yet current progress remains constrained by small, narrowly designed models that fail to scale or generalize.
By Dingqiang Ye, Chao Fan, Kartik Narayan, Bingzhe Wu, Chengwen Luo, Jianqiang Li, Vishal M. Patel
arXiv:2609.01036v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: A lack of suitable datasets has limited the research into the privacy risks of novel smart city sensors, such as thermal cameras, depth cameras, and...
By Julian Todt, Felix Morsbach, Philip Dissert, Thorsten Strufe
MMGait is a large‑scale multi‑sensor benchmark that aligns visible, infrared, depth, LiDAR, and radar observations at the sequence level, enabling evaluation of single‑modal, cross‑modal, and multi‑modal gait recognition. The study shows that modality rankings shift with probe conditions, cross‑modal alignment remains challenging, and fusion can yield complementary gains. To address the scalability issue of training separate experts, the authors propose Omni‑Modal Gait Recognition and its implementation, OmniGait++, which unifies all recognition settings within a shared identity space using modality‑specific front ends, a shared encoder, and an anchor‑guided fusion module.
whyItMatters":"MMGait provides a common testbed for heterogeneous gait sensing and demonstrates that unified recognition across varying modality availability is feasible, offering a scalable alternative to task‑specific experts."
By Saihui Hou, Chenye Wang, Qingyuan Cai, Aoqi Li, Yongzhen Huang
Deep learning approaches to biometric verification are commonly trained by optimizing indirect objectives, creating a misalignment between the optimization process and the primary evaluation metric, typically the Equal Error Rate (EER). This paper introduces EERLoss: a subdifferentiable, arbitrarily accurate approximation to EER for training deep biometric models.
arXiv:2606. 27918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As a prominent symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD), turning impairment is evaluated through parameters such as turning angle, duration, and particularly, the number of steps required to complete a turn, which directly reflects motor dysfunction.
By Qiushuo Cheng, Jingjing Liu, Catherine Morgan, Alan Whone, Majid Mirmehdi
arXiv:2608. 13555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid motion tracking is central to teleoperation and whole-body imitation, yet evaluation often disagrees with what people perceive in videos.
By Dairu Liu, Zekun Qi, Jiayu Zeng, Ruixi Yu, Yu Guan, Yintianrun Zhang, Xuchuan Chen, Sikai Liang, Zekai Li, Chenghuai Lin, Xinqiang Yu, Wenyao Zhang, He Wang, Li Yi
The paper introduces a wireless smart insole that uses 16 pressure sensors and a six‑axis IMU to detect sitting, standing, walking, and unstable walking. Data from 15 healthy adults were processed in overlapping windows and evaluated with participant‑independent cross‑validation, achieving macro‑F1 scores of 0.954–0.980 using Histogram‑Based Gradient Boosting. A compact 1D‑CNN performed similarly but did not significantly outperform the gradient‑boosting model.
By Edwin Rios, Antony Garcia, Fengpei Yuan, Xinming Huang
The paper introduces the Columbia University Palm‑vein (CUP) dataset, the first public video‑based palm‑vein dataset that captures palms under four surface conditions—clean, warm, wet, and dirty—along with physiological and demographic metadata. Twenty‑one recognizers are benchmarked on CUP, revealing that models performing well on clean palms lose most accuracy on dirty palms, with mean EER roughly quadrupling. The authors propose a lightweight design that fuses global cosine similarity with a saliency‑steered region‑level optimal transport, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance across all surfaces while reducing parameters and computational cost, and they identify demographic gaps in warm‑condition performance.
By Xiaofeng Yan, Kechen Liu, Abhilash Venkatesh, Cathy Zhang, Xia Zhou, Salvatore Stolfo
Vein recognition is a secure biometric technology often constrained by limited annotated data and imaging variations. While data augmentation mitigates this, strategies designed for natural images may disrupt the fine-grained topology and textures essential for identity discrimination.
The paper presents a training‑free method for detecting which holds a climber uses in sport climbing videos by leveraging a frozen foundation pose model (Sapiens) that provides fingertip and toe keypoints. Using a simple proximity test, mutual exclusion, and a temporal‑persistence rule, the approach achieves high F_1 scores (up to 90.2%) on the Way Up dataset without any climbing‑specific training, outperforming repurposed pose pipelines. The resulting automatic predictions enable accurate coaching statistics, such as climb time and pace, with Pearson correlations of 1.00 and 0.94 respectively.
By Abu Bakar, Abdullah Aftab, Amir Hamza