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Quality Aware Network for Set to Set Recognition
This paper targets on the problem of set to set recognition, which learns the
metric between two image sets. Images in each set belong to the same identity.
Since images in a set can be complementary, they hopefully lead to higher
accuracy in practical applications. However, the quality of each sample cannot
be guaranteed, and samples with poor quality will hurt the metric. In this
paper, the quality aware network (QAN) is proposed to confront this problem,
where the quality of each sample can be automatically learned although such
information is not explicitly provided in the training stage. The network has
two branches, where the first branch extracts appearance feature embedding for
each sample and the other branch predicts quality score for each sample.
Features and quality scores of all samples in a set are then aggregated to
generate the final feature embedding. We show that the two branches can be
trained in an end-to-end manner given only the set-level identity annotation.
Analysis on gradient spread of this mechanism indicates that the quality
learned by the network is beneficial to set-to-set recognition and simplifies
the distribution that the network needs to fit. Experiments on both face
verification and person re-identification show advantages of the proposed QAN.
The source code and network structure can be downloaded at
https://github.com/sciencefans/Quality-Aware-Network.Comment: Accepted at CVPR 201
Online Multi-Object Tracking Using CNN-based Single Object Tracker with Spatial-Temporal Attention Mechanism
In this paper, we propose a CNN-based framework for online MOT. This
framework utilizes the merits of single object trackers in adapting appearance
models and searching for target in the next frame. Simply applying single
object tracker for MOT will encounter the problem in computational efficiency
and drifted results caused by occlusion. Our framework achieves computational
efficiency by sharing features and using ROI-Pooling to obtain individual
features for each target. Some online learned target-specific CNN layers are
used for adapting the appearance model for each target. In the framework, we
introduce spatial-temporal attention mechanism (STAM) to handle the drift
caused by occlusion and interaction among targets. The visibility map of the
target is learned and used for inferring the spatial attention map. The spatial
attention map is then applied to weight the features. Besides, the occlusion
status can be estimated from the visibility map, which controls the online
updating process via weighted loss on training samples with different occlusion
statuses in different frames. It can be considered as temporal attention
mechanism. The proposed algorithm achieves 34.3% and 46.0% in MOTA on
challenging MOT15 and MOT16 benchmark dataset respectively.Comment: Accepted at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 201
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