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Person re-identification via efficient inference in fully connected CRF
In this paper, we address the problem of person re-identification problem,
i.e., retrieving instances from gallery which are generated by the same person
as the given probe image. This is very challenging because the person's
appearance usually undergoes significant variations due to changes in
illumination, camera angle and view, background clutter, and occlusion over the
camera network. In this paper, we assume that the matched gallery images should
not only be similar to the probe, but also be similar to each other, under
suitable metric. We express this assumption with a fully connected CRF model in
which each node corresponds to a gallery and every pair of nodes are connected
by an edge. A label variable is associated with each node to indicate whether
the corresponding image is from target person. We define unary potential for
each node using existing feature calculation and matching techniques, which
reflect the similarity between probe and gallery image, and define pairwise
potential for each edge in terms of a weighed combination of Gaussian kernels,
which encode appearance similarity between pair of gallery images. The specific
form of pairwise potential allows us to exploit an efficient inference
algorithm to calculate the marginal distribution of each label variable for
this dense connected CRF. We show the superiority of our method by applying it
to public datasets and comparing with the state of the art.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Improving Person Re-identification by Attribute and Identity Learning
Person re-identification (re-ID) and attribute recognition share a common
target at learning pedestrian descriptions. Their difference consists in the
granularity. Most existing re-ID methods only take identity labels of
pedestrians into consideration. However, we find the attributes, containing
detailed local descriptions, are beneficial in allowing the re-ID model to
learn more discriminative feature representations. In this paper, based on the
complementarity of attribute labels and ID labels, we propose an
attribute-person recognition (APR) network, a multi-task network which learns a
re-ID embedding and at the same time predicts pedestrian attributes. We
manually annotate attribute labels for two large-scale re-ID datasets, and
systematically investigate how person re-ID and attribute recognition benefit
from each other. In addition, we re-weight the attribute predictions
considering the dependencies and correlations among the attributes. The
experimental results on two large-scale re-ID benchmarks demonstrate that by
learning a more discriminative representation, APR achieves competitive re-ID
performance compared with the state-of-the-art methods. We use APR to speed up
the retrieval process by ten times with a minor accuracy drop of 2.92% on
Market-1501. Besides, we also apply APR on the attribute recognition task and
demonstrate improvement over the baselines.Comment: Accepted to Pattern Recognition (PR
Deep Attributes Driven Multi-Camera Person Re-identification
The visual appearance of a person is easily affected by many factors like
pose variations, viewpoint changes and camera parameter differences. This makes
person Re-Identification (ReID) among multiple cameras a very challenging task.
This work is motivated to learn mid-level human attributes which are robust to
such visual appearance variations. And we propose a semi-supervised attribute
learning framework which progressively boosts the accuracy of attributes only
using a limited number of labeled data. Specifically, this framework involves a
three-stage training. A deep Convolutional Neural Network (dCNN) is first
trained on an independent dataset labeled with attributes. Then it is
fine-tuned on another dataset only labeled with person IDs using our defined
triplet loss. Finally, the updated dCNN predicts attribute labels for the
target dataset, which is combined with the independent dataset for the final
round of fine-tuning. The predicted attributes, namely \emph{deep attributes}
exhibit superior generalization ability across different datasets. By directly
using the deep attributes with simple Cosine distance, we have obtained
surprisingly good accuracy on four person ReID datasets. Experiments also show
that a simple metric learning modular further boosts our method, making it
significantly outperform many recent works.Comment: Person Re-identification; 17 pages; 5 figures; In IEEE ECCV 201
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