14 research outputs found
Beyond Intra-modality: A Survey of Heterogeneous Person Re-identification
An efficient and effective person re-identification (ReID) system relieves
the users from painful and boring video watching and accelerates the process of
video analysis. Recently, with the explosive demands of practical applications,
a lot of research efforts have been dedicated to heterogeneous person
re-identification (Hetero-ReID). In this paper, we provide a comprehensive
review of state-of-the-art Hetero-ReID methods that address the challenge of
inter-modality discrepancies. According to the application scenario, we
classify the methods into four categories -- low-resolution, infrared, sketch,
and text. We begin with an introduction of ReID, and make a comparison between
Homogeneous ReID (Homo-ReID) and Hetero-ReID tasks. Then, we describe and
compare existing datasets for performing evaluations, and survey the models
that have been widely employed in Hetero-ReID. We also summarize and compare
the representative approaches from two perspectives, i.e., the application
scenario and the learning pipeline. We conclude by a discussion of some future
research directions. Follow-up updates are avaible at:
https://github.com/lightChaserX/Awesome-Hetero-reIDComment: Accepted by IJCAI 2020. Project url:
https://github.com/lightChaserX/Awesome-Hetero-reI
Cross-Modality Paired-Images Generation for RGB-Infrared Person Re-Identification
RGB-Infrared (IR) person re-identification is very challenging due to the
large cross-modality variations between RGB and IR images. The key solution is
to learn aligned features to the bridge RGB and IR modalities. However, due to
the lack of correspondence labels between every pair of RGB and IR images, most
methods try to alleviate the variations with set-level alignment by reducing
the distance between the entire RGB and IR sets. However, this set-level
alignment may lead to misalignment of some instances, which limits the
performance for RGB-IR Re-ID. Different from existing methods, in this paper,
we propose to generate cross-modality paired-images and perform both global
set-level and fine-grained instance-level alignments. Our proposed method
enjoys several merits. First, our method can perform set-level alignment by
disentangling modality-specific and modality-invariant features. Compared with
conventional methods, ours can explicitly remove the modality-specific features
and the modality variation can be better reduced. Second, given cross-modality
unpaired-images of a person, our method can generate cross-modality paired
images from exchanged images. With them, we can directly perform instance-level
alignment by minimizing distances of every pair of images. Extensive
experimental results on two standard benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed
model favourably against state-of-the-art methods. Especially, on SYSU-MM01
dataset, our model can achieve a gain of 9.2% and 7.7% in terms of Rank-1 and
mAP. Code is available at https://github.com/wangguanan/JSIA-ReID.Comment: accepted by AAAI'2
Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification Using Privileged Intermediate Information
Visible-infrared person re-identification (ReID) aims to recognize a same
person of interest across a network of RGB and IR cameras. Some deep learning
(DL) models have directly incorporated both modalities to discriminate persons
in a joint representation space. However, this cross-modal ReID problem remains
challenging due to the large domain shift in data distributions between RGB and
IR modalities. % This paper introduces a novel approach for a creating
intermediate virtual domain that acts as bridges between the two main domains
(i.e., RGB and IR modalities) during training. This intermediate domain is
considered as privileged information (PI) that is unavailable at test time, and
allows formulating this cross-modal matching task as a problem in learning
under privileged information (LUPI). We devised a new method to generate images
between visible and infrared domains that provide additional information to
train a deep ReID model through an intermediate domain adaptation. In
particular, by employing color-free and multi-step triplet loss objectives
during training, our method provides common feature representation spaces that
are robust to large visible-infrared domain shifts. % Experimental results on
challenging visible-infrared ReID datasets indicate that our proposed approach
consistently improves matching accuracy, without any computational overhead at
test time. The code is available at:
\href{https://github.com/alehdaghi/Cross-Modal-Re-ID-via-LUPI}{https://github.com/alehdaghi/Cross-Modal-Re-ID-via-LUPI