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The proposed system consists of digital cameras installed underneath an acrylic plate covered by glossy white paper and mounted with LED strips along the side of the plate. When the light is emitted from the LED stripes, it deflects the digital cameras due to the pressure exerted between the glossy white paper and the acrylic plate. In this way, the cameras generate color-coded plantar pressure images of the subject standing on the acrylic-top platform. Our proposed system performs personal identification and postural control by extracting static and dynamic features from the generated plantar pressure images. Plantar pressure images were collected from 90 individuals (40 males, 50 females) to develop and evaluate the proposed system. In posture balance evaluation, we propose the use of a posture balance index that contains both magnitude and directional information about human posture balance control. For person identification, the experimental results show that our proposed system can achieve promising results, showing an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.98515 (98.515%), an equal error rate (EER) of 5.8687%, and efficiency of 98.515%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21134437","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,28]],"date-time":"2021-06-28T13:39:22Z","timestamp":1624887562000},"page":"4437","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Optical-Based Foot Plantar Pressure Measurement System for Potential Application in Human Postural Control Measurement and Person Identification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Tanapon","family":"Keatsamarn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"King Mongkut\u2019s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, School of Engineering, Bangkok 10520, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sarinporn","family":"Visitsattapongse","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"King Mongkut\u2019s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, School of Engineering, Bangkok 10520, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hisayuki","family":"Aoyama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chuchart","family":"Pintavirooj","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"King Mongkut\u2019s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, School of Engineering, Bangkok 10520, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"96","article-title":"Recent advance in plantar pressure measurement system","volume":"145","author":"Guoand","year":"2012","journal-title":"Sens. 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