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Weakly-supervised Part-Attention and Mentored Networks for Vehicle Re-Identification
Vehicle re-identification (Re-ID) aims to retrieve images with the same
vehicle ID across different cameras. Current part-level feature learning
methods typically detect vehicle parts via uniform division, outside tools, or
attention modeling. However, such part features often require expensive
additional annotations and cause sub-optimal performance in case of unreliable
part mask predictions. In this paper, we propose a weakly-supervised
Part-Attention Network (PANet) and Part-Mentored Network (PMNet) for Vehicle
Re-ID. Firstly, PANet localizes vehicle parts via part-relevant channel
recalibration and cluster-based mask generation without vehicle part
supervisory information. Secondly, PMNet leverages teacher-student guided
learning to distill vehicle part-specific features from PANet and performs
multi-scale global-part feature extraction. During inference, PMNet can
adaptively extract discriminative part features without part localization by
PANet, preventing unstable part mask predictions. We address this Re-ID issue
as a multi-task problem and adopt Homoscedastic Uncertainty to learn the
optimal weighing of ID losses. Experiments are conducted on two public
benchmarks, showing that our approach outperforms recent methods, which require
no extra annotations by an average increase of 3.0% in CMC@5 on VehicleID and
over 1.4% in mAP on VeRi776. Moreover, our method can extend to the occluded
vehicle Re-ID task and exhibits good generalization ability.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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