Re: A fine distinction
"And even worse, once gait recognition in use it gets a lot harder to conceal yourself. Altering gait is surprisingly difficult, and even if you do altering height, weight is awkward"
One of the University research groups developing this tried to install a test set-up in a public area of a University building, not the one with their lab in, a much busier one, cue the Trades Union rep with SIA CCTV operation licencing training threatening to report the academic, head of department, faculty dean and VC to the ICO for operation of an unrecorded unlicenced system. Said Universities registered data controller arrived and disabled the system before it went live...
It's not just height/weight, it's hip/pelvis width, articulation, rotation and limb length between joints that the better systems track and analyse, short of surgical alteration no-one, even fully robed in loose clothing can avoid detection reliably, enough measurable data for a reliable 'person of interest' action trigger can still be achived...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
