GaitSnippet: Gait Recognition Beyond Unordered Sets and Ordered Sequences
In gait recognition, unordered set modeling neglects short-term temporal dependencies, while ordered sequence modeling struggles to capture long-range correlations. To address this, we propose the “gait snippet” paradigm, representing human gait as a personalized, multi-scale composition of action snippets—thereby unifying short- and long-range temporal context modeling. Our method comprises two core components: snippet sampling and snippet modeling, leveraging a lightweight 2D convolutional backbone for efficient snippet-level feature extraction and aggregation. This work introduces the snippet concept to gait recognition for the first time, breaking away from the conventional dichotomy of set- versus sequence-based modeling. Evaluated on Gait3D and GREW benchmarks, our approach achieves rank-1 accuracies of 77.5% and 81.7%, respectively, demonstrating strong effectiveness, robustness, and cross-scenario generalization capability.