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How Do Community-based Legal Programs Work: Understanding the Process and Benefits of a Pilot Program to Advance Women's Property Rights in Uganda
This document presents women's property rights, especially access to land, are increasingly recognized as critical to achieving poverty reduction and gender equality. Research shows that community-based legal aid programs are a viable approach to improving legal knowledge and women's access to legal resources to address property issues. From 2009-2010, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) implemented and evaluated a pilot program to strengthen women's property rights. This report describes the pilot program's implementation, outcomes and lessons. It details the program design, methodologies for monitoring and evaluation, and the context in which the program was implemented. Findings include a discussion of challenges encountered by the rights workers, overall program achievements, and recommendations for community rights work as an approach to promoting women's property rights
Semantics-Aligned Representation Learning for Person Re-identification
Person re-identification (reID) aims to match person images to retrieve the
ones with the same identity. This is a challenging task, as the images to be
matched are generally semantically misaligned due to the diversity of human
poses and capture viewpoints, incompleteness of the visible bodies (due to
occlusion), etc. In this paper, we propose a framework that drives the reID
network to learn semantics-aligned feature representation through delicate
supervision designs. Specifically, we build a Semantics Aligning Network (SAN)
which consists of a base network as encoder (SA-Enc) for re-ID, and a decoder
(SA-Dec) for reconstructing/regressing the densely semantics aligned full
texture image. We jointly train the SAN under the supervisions of person
re-identification and aligned texture generation. Moreover, at the decoder,
besides the reconstruction loss, we add Triplet ReID constraints over the
feature maps as the perceptual losses. The decoder is discarded in the
inference and thus our scheme is computationally efficient. Ablation studies
demonstrate the effectiveness of our design. We achieve the state-of-the-art
performances on the benchmark datasets CUHK03, Market1501, MSMT17, and the
partial person reID dataset Partial REID. Code for our proposed method is
available at:
https://github.com/microsoft/Semantics-Aligned-Representation-Learning-for-Person-Re-identification.Comment: Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20),
code has been release
Learning Resolution-Invariant Deep Representations for Person Re-Identification
Person re-identification (re-ID) solves the task of matching images across
cameras and is among the research topics in vision community. Since query
images in real-world scenarios might suffer from resolution loss, how to solve
the resolution mismatch problem during person re-ID becomes a practical
problem. Instead of applying separate image super-resolution models, we propose
a novel network architecture of Resolution Adaptation and re-Identification
Network (RAIN) to solve cross-resolution person re-ID. Advancing the strategy
of adversarial learning, we aim at extracting resolution-invariant
representations for re-ID, while the proposed model is learned in an end-to-end
training fashion. Our experiments confirm that the use of our model can
recognize low-resolution query images, even if the resolution is not seen
during training. Moreover, the extension of our model for semi-supervised re-ID
further confirms the scalability of our proposed method for real-world
scenarios and applications.Comment: Accepted to AAAI 2019 (Oral
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