29 research outputs found
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
Cross-Dataset Person Re-Identification via Unsupervised Pose Disentanglement and Adaptation
Person re-identification (re-ID) aims at recognizing the same person from
images taken across different cameras. To address this challenging task,
existing re-ID models typically rely on a large amount of labeled training
data, which is not practical for real-world applications. To alleviate this
limitation, researchers now targets at cross-dataset re-ID which focuses on
generalizing the discriminative ability to the unlabeled target domain when
given a labeled source domain dataset. To achieve this goal, our proposed Pose
Disentanglement and Adaptation Network (PDA-Net) aims at learning deep image
representation with pose and domain information properly disentangled. With the
learned cross-domain pose invariant feature space, our proposed PDA-Net is able
to perform pose disentanglement across domains without supervision in
identities, and the resulting features can be applied to cross-dataset re-ID.
Both of our qualitative and quantitative results on two benchmark datasets
confirm the effectiveness of our approach and its superiority over the
state-of-the-art cross-dataset Re-ID approaches.Comment: Accepted to ICCV 201
Biological strategy for the fabrication of highly ordered aragonite helices: The microstructure of the cavolinioidean gastropods
The Cavolinioidea are planktonic gastropods which construct their shells with the so-called aragonitic helical fibrous microstructure, consisting of a highly ordered arrangement of helically coiled interlocking continuous crystalline aragonite fibres. Our study reveals that, despite the high and continuous degree of interlocking between fibres, every fibre has a differentiated organic-rich thin external band, which is never invaded by neighbouring fibres. In this way, fibres avoid extinction. These intra-fibre organic-rich bands appear on the growth surface of the shell as minuscule elevations, which have to be secreted differentially by the outer mantle cells. We propose that, as the shell thickens during mineralization, fibre secretion proceeds by a mechanism of contact recognition and displacement of the tips along circular trajectories by the cells of the outer mantle surface. Given the sizes of the tips, this mechanism has to operate at the subcellular level. Accordingly, the fabrication of the helical microstructure is under strict biological control. This mechanism of fibre-by-fibre fabrication by the mantle cells is unlike that any other shell microstructure.Funding was provided by Research Projects CGL2013-48247-P of the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), and P10-RNM6433 of the Andalusian Consejería de Economía, Investigación, Ciencia y Empleo, of the Junta de Andalucía, and by the Research Group RNM363 (latter Institution)