The human gait is the identification of human locomotive based on limbs position or action The tracking of human gait can help in various applications like normal and abnormal gait fall detection gender detection age detection biometrics and in some terrorist and criminal activity detection The present work carried out is a review of various methodologies employed in human gait detection The analysis describes that the different feature extraction and machine learning techniques to be adopted for the identification of human gait based on the purpose of the applicatio