A multi-character recognition method based on hidden Markov model （HMM） was presented. The method can reduce the calculation load of correlation and improve recognition accuracy compared with singlecharacter recognition in video. The characteristics used for recognizing include the shape character, the color character, the texture character and so on. Even our human being generally uses these characteristics to recognize objects in practice..4, recognition experiment of 17 fishes was carried out in the paper. The experimental results demonstrate the high veracity of the multi-character recognition algorithm. Together with the tracking process, it can handle dynamic objects, so the multi-character recognition is more like the human recognition, and has great application value.
This paper proposed a novel model-based feature representation method to characterize human walking properties for individual recognition by gait. First, a new spatial point reconstruction approach is proposed to recover the coordinates of 3D points from 2D images by the related coordinate conversion factor (CCF). The images are captured by a monocular camera. Second, the human body is represented by a connected three-stick model. Then the parameters of the body model are recovered by the method of projective geometry using the related CCF. Finally, the gait feature composed of those parameters is defined, and it is proved by experiments that those features can partially avoid the influence of viewing angles between the optical axis of the camera and walking direction of the subject.
