Divide and Fuse: A Re-ranking Approach for Person Re-identification

As re-ranking is a necessary procedure to boost person re-identification (re-ID) performance on large-scale datasets, the diversity of feature becomes crucial to person reID for its importance both on designing pedestrian descriptions and re-ranking based on feature fusion. However, in many circumstances, only one type of pedestrian feature is available. In this paper, we propose a "Divide and use" re-ranking framework for person re-ID. It exploits the diversity from different parts of a high-dimensional feature vector for fusion-based re-ranking, while no other features are accessible. Specifically, given an image, the extracted feature is divided into sub-features. Then the contextual information of each sub-feature is iteratively encoded into a new feature. Finally, the new features from the same image are fused into one vector for re-ranking. Experimental results on two person re-ID benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Especially, our method outperforms the state-of-the-art on the Market-1501 dataset.Comment: Accepted by BMVC201

Effects of nonideal characteristics of substrate BJT on bandgap reference circuit

The non-ideal characteristics of bipolar junction transistors (BJT) on the performance of band gap reference circuits are investigated. It is shown that the base spreading resistance (BSR) of a substrate BJT along with its temperature dependence has a significant negative impact on the performance of voltage references. It is shown that the temperature-dependent forward current gain (β) also adversely affects reference performance. In a typical application in a bulk CMOS process, the base spreading resistance causes an increase in the reference output of about 1% and the temperature dependent β introduces an inflection point shift of around 30 °C. After calibration the TC changes by 25 ppm/°C