Accelerometer-based biometric gait recognition offers a convenient way to authenticate users on their mobile devices. Modern smartphones contain in-built accelerometers which can be used as sensors to acquire the necessary data while the subjects are walking. Hence, no additional costs for special sensors are imposed to the user. In this publication we extract several features from the gait data and use the kNearest Neighbour algorithm for classification. We show that this algorithm yields a better biometric performance than the machine learning algorithms we previously used for classification, namely Hidden Markov Models and Support Vector Machines. We implemented the presented method on a smartphone and demonstrate that it is efficient enough to be applied in practice.
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