Skeletons on the Stairs: Are They Deceptive?

Yiran Li*, Yang Liu, Zhenyue Qin, Xuanying Zhu, Sabrina Caldwell, Tom Gedeon

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    Abstract

    Physiological signals have been widely applied for deception detection. However, these signals are usually collected by devices attached to subjects. Such attachments can cause discomfort and unexpected anxiety, and thus will be noticed. Alternatively, skeleton-based gait data collected in a non-contact setting can be a solution to detect deception. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to investigate whether liars can be recognized using their skeletal motion trajectories. We extract skeletal gait data from videos of participants going up and downstairs after they conduct a mock crime. With the extracted skeletal gait data, a simplified version of Multi-Scale Graph 3D (MS-G3D) network is able to recognise participants’ deceptive behaviour with an average accuracy of 70.9%. This result is higher than those obtained from traditional classifiers such as neural networks, support vector machines and decision trees, which are trained on hand-crafted features calculated from the gait data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 28th International Conference, ICONIP 2021, Proceedings
    EditorsTeddy Mantoro, Minho Lee, Media Anugerah Ayu, Kok Wai Wong, Achmad Nizar Hidayanto
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages194-202
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9783030923099
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021
    Event28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2021 - Virtual, Online
    Duration: 8 Dec 202112 Dec 2021

    Publication series

    NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
    Volume1517 CCIS
    ISSN (Print)1865-0929
    ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

    Conference

    Conference28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2021
    CityVirtual, Online
    Period8/12/2112/12/21

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