We present a new method for view-point independent gait biometrics. The system relies on a single camera, does not require camera calibration and works with a wide range of camera-views. This is achieved by a formulation where the gait is self-calibrating. These properties make the proposed method particularly suitable for identification by gait, where the advantages of completely unobtrusiveness, remoteness and covertness of the biometric system preclude the availability of camera information and specific walking directions. Moreover, tests on the multi-view CASIA-B database, composed of more than 2270 video sequences with 65 different subjects walking freely along different walking directions have been performed. The obtained results show that human identification by gait can be achieved without any knowledge of internal or external camera parameters with a mean CCR of 73.6% using purely dynamic gait features. The performance of the proposed method is particularly encouraging for application in surveillance scenarios.

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