In order to tackle the problem of recognizing humans by gait, we use an approach which combines eigenspace transformation (EST) with canonical space transformation (CST) for feature extraction of spatial templates from a gait sequence. Our proposed method can be used to reduce data dimensionality and to optimize the class separability of different gait sequences simultaneously. We propose a new feature-temporal templates, and an extended feature which combines spatial and temporal templates for recognition. By incorporating spatial and temporal information into an extended feature vector in the canonical space, gait recognition becomes more robust and accurate than using any single feature alone