FedGait: A Benchmark for Federated Gait Recognition

Gait recognition has been greatly improved by deep learning and can achieve a relative high accuracy. The advances depend on the data size of gait. However, due to public concerns on privacy and regulations and laws from different countries, it is very difficult and almost impossible to collect a huge centralized gait database for algorithm training. Federated learning is a distributed machine learning technique for privacy-preserving, and can help to solve the problem. We propose a federated gait recognition benchmark, FedGait, to train algorithms using distributed gait data. It is the first benchmark on gait recognition to the best of our knowledge. FedGait can utilizes the gait videos available on multiple clients to learn a robust and generalized model. Based on the real-world gait scenarios, we introduce two federated gait recognition scenarios: institution-based scenario (IBS) and device-based scenario (DBS). Compared with centralized training, federated learning will encounter more serious heterogeneous data and data imbalance problems. We employ four popular databases for experiments, CASIA-B, CASIA-E, ReSGait and OU-MVLP, are involved in FedGait to investigate the problems in federated learning. We hope FedGait is a good start to solve data privacy problem in gait recognition.