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MMGait: Benchmarking and Unifying Gait Recognition across Heterogeneous Modalities

arxiv.org/abs/2609.11601

Updated 51 min ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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11 Sept 2026
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arXiv
2609.11601
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Abstract

Gait recognition is commonly studied using RGB videos or their derived silhouettes and poses. Yet human walking produces heterogeneous photometric, geometric, and motion cues that cannot be systematically examined with RGB-centered benchmarks. We present MMGait, a large-scale multi-sensor benchmark that brings visible, infrared, depth, LiDAR, and radar observations into sequence-level correspondence. It provides diverse modalities spanning appearance, contours, geometry, motion, and body structure. Under a shared impostor-augmented protocol, we evaluate single-modal recognition, cross-modal recognition via directed retrieval, and multi-modal recognition using task-specific experts. Across settings, modality rankings vary with probe conditions, cross-modal alignment remains difficult, and fusion often provides complementary gains. This analysis exposes a scalability problem: individual modalities, modality pairs, and fusion configurations are typically handled by separately trained experts. We formulate Omni-Modal Gait Recognition, which unifies single-modal, cross-modal, and multi-modal recognition within a shared identity space. OmniGait++ uses modality-specific front ends followed by a shared identity encoder to preserve modality-dependent cues while learning comparable identity descriptors. An anchor-guided fusion module aggregates modality subsets of varying size without frame-level synchronization. A jointly trained checkpoint covers all three recognition settings and accommodates modality subsets of different compositions and cardinalities. Experiments show OmniGait++ remains competitive with task-specific experts in many shared settings and extends to higher-cardinality fusion unavailable to fixed-pair models. The results establish MMGait as a common testbed for heterogeneous gait sensing and demonstrate the feasibility of unified recognition under varying modality availability.

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Saihui Hou, Chenye Wang, Qingyuan Cai, Aoqi Li, Yongzhen Huang

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