Multi-modality fusion of floor and ambulatory sensors for gait classification

In a case study of gait classification from floor and ambulatory sensors, we compare results with data from each modality. The automatic extraction of features is achieved by Principle Component Analysis and Canonical Correlation Analysis, the latter performing better even with a reduced number of components used. Non-linear classifiers are most efficient for fused features. With a Kernel Support Vector Machine around 94% accuracy is demonstrated, improving over the 87% and 79% accuracies obtained with separate floor and ambulatory sensor data, respectively.