Existing part-aware person re-identification methods typically employ two separate steps: namely, body part detection and part-level feature extraction. However, part detection introduces an additional computational cost and is inherently challenging for low-quality images. Accordingly, in this work, we propose a simple framework named Batch Coherence-Driven Network (BCD-Net) that bypasses body part detection during both the training and testing phases while still learning semantically aligned part features. Our key observation is that the statistics in a batch of images are stable, and therefore that batch-level constraints are robust. First, we introduce a batch coherence-guided channel attention (BCCA) module that highlights the relevant channels for each respective part from the output of a deep backbone model. We investigate channelpart correspondence using a batch of training images, then impose a novel batch-level supervision signal that helps BCCA to identify part-relevant channels. Second, the mean position of a body part is robust and consequently coherent between batches throughout the training process. Accordingly, we introduce a pair of regularization terms based on the semantic consistency between batches. The first term regularizes the high responses of BCD-Net for each part on one batch in order to constrain it within a predefined area, while the second encourages the aggregate of BCD-Nets responses for all parts covering the entire human body. The above constraints guide BCD-Net to learn diverse, complementary, and semantically aligned part-level features. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that BCDNet consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance on four large-scale ReID benchmarks.
Guangzhou University（广州大学）；University of Macau（澳门大学）
Visible-infrared cross-modality person re-identification (VI-ReID), whose aim is to match person images between visible and infrared modality, is a challenging cross-modality image retrieval task. Most existing works integrate batch normalization layers into their neural network, but we found out that batch normalization layers would lead to two types of distribution gap: 1) inter-mini-batch distribution gap -- the distribution gap of the same modality between each mini-batch; 2) intra-mini-batch modality distribution gap -- the distribution gap of different modality within the same mini-batch…
Guangzhou University（广州大学）；University of Macau（澳门大学）
Visible-Infrared cross-modality person re-identification (VI-ReID), whose aim is to match person images between visible and infrared modality, is a challenging cross-modality image retrieval task. Batch Hard Triplet loss is widely used in person re-identification tasks, but it does not perform well in the Visible-Infrared person re-identification task. Because it only optimizes the hardest triplet for each anchor image within the mini-batch, samples in the hardest triplet may all belong to the same modality, which will lead to the imbalance problem of modality optimization. To address this pro…
Since the person re-identification task often suffers from the problem of pose changes and occlusions, some attentive local features are often suppressed when training CNNs. In this paper, we propose the Batch DropBlock (BDB) Network which is a two branch network composed of a conventional ResNet-50 as the global branch and a feature dropping branch. The global branch encodes the global salient representations. Meanwhile, the feature dropping branch consists of an attentive feature learning module called Batch DropBlock, which randomly drops the same region of all input feature maps in a batch…
Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Ping An Technology（平安科技）；Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院）；Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）
This study explores a simple but strong baseline for person re-identification (ReID). Person ReID with deep neural networks has progressed and achieved high performance in recent years. However, many state-of-the-art methods design complex network structures and concatenate multi-branch features. In the literature, some effective training tricks briefly appear in several papers or source codes. The present study collects and evaluates these effective training tricks in person ReID. By combining these tricks, the model achieves 94.5% rank-1 and 85.9% mean average precision on Market1501 with on…
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology（韩国科学技术院）
Although supervised person re-identification (Re-ID) methods have shown impressive performance, they suffer from a poor generalization capability on unseen domains. Therefore, generalizable Re-ID has recently attracted growing attention. Many existing methods have employed an instance normalization technique to reduce style variations, but the loss of discriminative information could not be avoided. In this paper, we propose a novel generalizable Re-ID framework, named Meta Batch-Instance Normalization (MetaBIN). Our main idea is to generalize normalization layers by simulating unsuccessful ge…
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Huawei Inc.（华为公司）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Hefei University of Technology（合肥工业大学）
The fundamental difficulty in person re-identification (ReID) lies in learning the correspondence among individual cameras. It strongly demands costly inter-camera annotations, yet the trained models are not guaranteed to transfer well to previously unseen cameras. These problems significantly limit the application of ReID. This paper rethinks the working mechanism of conventional ReID approaches and puts forward a new solution. With an effective operator named Camera-based Batch Normalization (CBN), we force the image data of all cameras to fall onto the same subspace, so that the distributio…
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology（脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心）；Chinese Academy of Sciences, Artificial Intelligence Research（中国科学院人工智能研究院）
In this paper, we investigate the generalization problem of person re-identification (re-id), whose major challenge is the distribution shift on an unseen domain. As an important tool of regularizing the distribution, batch normalization (BN) has been widely used in existing methods. However, they neglect that BN is severely biased to the training domain and inevitably suffers the performance drop if directly generalized without being updated. To tackle this issue, we propose Batch Norm Test-time Adaption (BNTA), a novel re-id framework that applies the self-supervised strategy to update BN pa…
In this paper, we propose a novel person Re-ID model, Consecutive Batch DropBlock Network (CBDB-Net), to capture the attentive and robust person descriptor for the person Re-ID task. The CBDB-Net contains two novel designs: the Consecutive Batch DropBlock Module (CBDBM) and the Elastic Loss (EL). In the Consecutive Batch DropBlock Module (CBDBM), we firstly conduct uniform partition on the feature maps. And then, we independently and continuously drop each patch from top to bottom on the feature maps, which can output multiple incomplete feature maps. In the training stage, these multiple inco…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）
Generalizable person re-identification aims to learn a model with only several labeled source domains that can perform well on unseen domains. Without access to the unseen domain, the feature statistics of the batch normalization (BN) layer learned from a limited number of source domains is doubtlessly biased for unseen domain. This would mislead the feature representation learning for unseen domain and deteriorate the generalizaiton ability of the model. In this paper, we propose a novel Debiased Batch Normalization via Gaussian Process approach (GDNorm) for generalizable person re-identifica…
For most unsupervised person re-identification (re-ID), people often adopt unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) method. UDA often train on the labeled source dataset and evaluate on the target dataset, which often focuses on learning differences between the source dataset and the target dataset to improve the generalization of the model. Base on these, we explore how to make use of the similarity of samples to conduct a fully unsupervised method which just trains on the unlabeled target dataset. Concretely, we propose a hierarchical clustering-guided re-ID (HCR) method. We use hierarchical clu…
Sun Yat-Sen University（中山大学）；Anhui University（安徽大学）
In this paper, we propose Hard Person Identity Mining (HPIM) that attempts to refine the hard example mining to improve the exploration efficacy in person re-identification. It is motivated by following observation: the more attributes some people share, the more difficult to separate their identities. Based on this observation, we develop HPIM via a transferred attribute describer, a deep multi-attribute classifier trained from the source noisy person attribute datasets. We encode each image into the attribute probabilistic description in the target person re-ID dataset. Afterwards in the att…
Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)（起源人工智能研究院）；Terminus Group（特斯联集团）
Recent studies show that, both explicit deep feature matching as well as large-scale and diverse training data can significantly improve the generalization of person re-identification. However, the efficiency of learning deep matchers on large-scale data has not yet been adequately studied. Though learning with classification parameters or class memory is a popular way, it incurs large memory and computational costs. In contrast, pairwise deep metric learning within mini batches would be a better choice. However, the most popular random sampling method, the well-known PK sampler, is not inform…
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications（南京邮电大学）；Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology（华中科技大学）；Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）
A big challenge of person re-identification (Re-ID) using a multi-branch network architecture is to learn diverse features from the ID-labeled dataset. The 2-branch Batch DropBlock (BDB) network was recently proposed for achieving diversity between the global branch and the feature-dropping branch. In this paper, we propose to move the dropping operation from the intermediate feature layer towards the input (image dropping). Since it may drop a large portion of input images, this makes the training hard to converge. Hence, we propose a novel double-batch-split co-training approach for remedyin…
Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学）
Person re-identification (ReID) aims at re-identifying persons from different viewpoints across multiple cameras, of which it is of great importance to learn multifaceted features expressed in different parts of a person, e.g., clothes, bags, and other accessories in the main body, appearance in the head, and shoes in the foot. To learn such features, existing methods are focused on the striping-based approach that builds multi-branch neural networks to learn local features in each part of the identities, with one-branch network dedicated to one part. This results in complex models with a larg…
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
Mining the shared features of same identity in different scene, and the unique features of different identity in same scene, are most significant challenges in the field of person re-identification (ReID). Online Instance Matching (OIM) loss function and Triplet loss function are main methods for person ReID. Unfortunately, both of them have drawbacks. OIM loss treats all samples equally and puts no emphasis on hard samples. Triplet loss processes batch construction in a complicated and fussy way and converges slowly. For these problems, we propose a Triplet Online Instance Matching (TOIM) los…
East China Normal University（华东师范大学）；State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing（数学工程与先进计算国家重点实验室）
Image features from a small local region often give strong evidence in person re-identification task. However, CNN suffers from paying too much attention on the most salient local areas, thus ignoring other discriminative clues, e.g., hair, shoes or logos on clothes. %BDB proposes to randomly drop one block in a batch to enlarge the high response areas. Although BDB has achieved remarkable results, there still room for improvement. In this work, we propose a Progressive Multi-stage feature Mix network (PMM), which enables the model to find out the more precise and diverse features in a progres…
Video-based person re-identification (Re-ID) is an important computer vision task. The batch-hard triplet loss frequently used in video-based person Re-ID suffers from the Distance Variance among Different Positives (DVDP) problem. In this paper, we address this issue by introducing a new metric learning method called Attribute-aware Identity-hard Triplet Loss (AITL), which reduces the intra-class variation among positive samples via calculating attribute distance. To achieve a complete model of video-based person Re-ID, a multi-task framework with Attribute-driven Spatio-Temporal Attention (A…
Recently, Batch DropBlock network (BDB) has demonstrated its effectiveness on person image representation and re-identification task via feature erasing. However, BDB drops the features \textbf{randomly} which may lead to sub-optimal results. In this paper, we propose a novel Self-Thresholding attention guided Adaptive DropBlock network (STADB) for person re-ID which can \textbf{adaptively} erase the most discriminative regions. Specifically, STADB first obtains an attention map by channel-wise pooling and returns a drop mask by thresholding the attention map. Then, the input features and self…
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）；Alibaba DAMO Academy（阿里巴巴达摩院）
Person re-identification (Person ReID) is a challenging task due to the large variations in camera viewpoint, lighting, resolution, and human pose. Recently, with the advancement of deep learning technologies, the performance of Person ReID has been improved swiftly. Feature extraction and feature matching are two crucial components in the training and deployment stages of Person ReID. However, many existing Person ReID methods have measure inconsistency between the training stage and the deployment stage, and they couple magnitude and orientation information of feature vectors in feature repr…
UNC Charlotte（北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校）；Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing（上海市智能信息处理重点实验室）；Fudan University（复旦大学）
Instance-level alignment is widely exploited for person re-identification, e.g. spatial alignment, latent semantic alignment and triplet alignment. This paper probes another feature alignment modality, namely cluster-level feature alignment across whole dataset, where the model can see not only the sampled images in local mini-batch but the global feature distribution of the whole dataset from distilled anchors. Towards this aim, we propose anchor loss and investigate many variants of cluster-level feature alignment, which consists of iterative aggregation and alignment from the overview of da…
In this letter, we propose a conceptually simple and effective dual-granularity triplet loss for visible-thermal person re-identification (VT-ReID). In general, ReID models are always trained with the sample-based triplet loss and identification loss from the fine granularity level. It is possible when a center-based loss is introduced to encourage the intra-class compactness and inter-class discrimination from the coarse granularity level. Our proposed dual-granularity triplet loss well organizes the sample-based triplet loss and center-based triplet loss in a hierarchical fine to coarse gran…
Capillary Technologies（凯普丽利科技公司）；Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur（印度理工学院卡拉格普尔分校）
Person re-identification (ReID) is an important problem in computer vision, especially for video surveillance applications. The problem focuses on identifying people across different cameras or across different frames of the same camera. The main challenge lies in identifying the similarity of the same person against large appearance and structure variations, while differentiating between individuals. Recently, deep learning networks with triplet loss have become a common framework for person ReID. However, triplet loss focuses on obtaining correct orders on the training set. We demonstrate th…
Unsupervised domain adaptive person Re-IDentification (ReID) is challenging because of the large domain gap between source and target domains, as well as the lackage of labeled data on the target domain. This paper tackles this challenge through jointly enforcing visual and temporal consistency in the combination of a local one-hot classification and a global multi-class classification. The local one-hot classification assigns images in a training batch with different person IDs, then adopts a Self-Adaptive Classification (SAC) model to classify them. The global multi-class classification is a…
In this paper, we aim to tackle the one-shot person re-identification problem where only one image is labelled for each person, while other images are unlabelled. This task is challenging due to the lack of sufficient labelled training data. To tackle this problem, we propose to iteratively guess pseudo labels for the unlabeled image samples, which are later used to update the re-identification model together with the labelled samples. A new sampling mechanism is designed to select unlabeled samples to pseudo labelled samples based on the distance matrix, and to form a training triplet batch i…
Person re-identification aims to match images of the same person across disjoint camera views, which is a challenging problem in video surveillance. The major challenge of this task lies in how to preserve the similarity of the same person against large variations caused by complex backgrounds, mutual occlusions and different illuminations, while discriminating the different individuals. In this paper, we present a novel deep ranking model with feature learning and fusion by learning a large adaptive margin between the intra-class distance and inter-class distance to solve the person re-identi…
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology（湖南人文科技学院）；Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR（新加坡科技研究局高性能计算研究所）
Person re-identification is indeed a challenging visual recognition task due to the critical issues of human pose variation, human body occlusion, camera view variation, etc. To address this, most of the state-of-the-art approaches are proposed based on deep convolutional neural network (CNN), being leveraged by its strong feature learning power and classification boundary fitting capacity. Although the vital role towards person re-identification, how to build effective CNN baseline model has not been well studied yet. To answer this open question, we propose 3 good practices in this paper fro…
In the world where big data reigns and there is plenty of hardware prepared to gather a huge amount of non structured data, data acquisition is no longer a problem. Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous and they capture huge numbers of people walking across different scenes. However, extracting value from this data is challenging, specially for tasks that involve human images, such as face recognition and person re-identification. Annotation of this kind of data is a challenging and expensive task. In this work we propose a domain adaptation workflow to allow CNNs that were trained in one domain…
Domain adaptive person Re-Identification (ReID) is challenging owing to the domain gap and shortage of annotations on target scenarios. To handle those two challenges, this paper proposes a coupling optimization method including the Domain-Invariant Mapping (DIM) method and the Global-Local distance Optimization (GLO), respectively. Different from previous methods that transfer knowledge in two stages, the DIM achieves a more efficient one-stage knowledge transfer by mapping images in labeled and unlabeled datasets to a shared feature space. GLO is designed to train the ReID model with unsuper…
Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；University of Texas at San Antonio（德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校）
Large-scale is a trend in person re-identification (re-id). It is important that real-time search be performed in a large gallery. While previous methods mostly focus on discriminative learning, this paper makes the attempt in integrating deep learning and hashing into one framework to evaluate the efficiency and accuracy for large-scale person re-id. We integrate spatial information for discriminative visual representation by partitioning the pedestrian image into horizontal parts. Specifically, Part-based Deep Hashing (PDH) is proposed, in which batches of triplet samples are employed as the…
Southeast University（东南大学）；University of Wollongong（伍伦贡大学）；Nanjing University（南京大学）
Domain generalization (DG) has attracted much attention in person re-identification (ReID) recently. It aims to make a model trained on multiple source domains generalize to an unseen target domain. Although achieving promising progress, existing methods usually need the source domains to be labeled, which could be a significant burden for practical ReID tasks. In this paper, we turn to investigate unsupervised domain generalization for ReID, by assuming that no label is available for any source domains. To address this challenging setting, we propose a simple and efficient domain-specific ada…
Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）；DATA61-CSIRO（联邦科学与工业研究组织DATA61）；OPPO US Research Center（OPPO美国研究中心）；Monash University（莫纳什大学）
Modern video person re-identification (re-ID) machines are often trained using a metric learning approach, supervised by a triplet loss. The triplet loss used in video re-ID is usually based on so-called clip features, each aggregated from a few frame features. In this paper, we propose to model the video clip as a set and instead study the distance between sets in the corresponding triplet loss. In contrast to the distance between clip representations, the distance between clip sets considers the pair-wise similarity of each element (i.e., frame representation) between two sets. This allows t…
West Virginia University（西弗吉尼亚大学）；University of Misan（米桑大学）
Person re-identification is a challenging task because of the high intra-class variance induced by the unrestricted nuisance factors of variations such as pose, illumination, viewpoint, background, and sensor noise. Recent approaches postulate that powerful architectures have the capacity to learn feature representations invariant to nuisance factors, by training them with losses that minimize intra-class variance and maximize inter-class separation, without modeling nuisance factors explicitly. The dominant approaches use either a discriminative loss with margin, like the softmax loss with th…
Tongji University（同济大学）；The University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学）
Unsupervised cross-domain person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to adapt the information from the labelled source domain to an unlabelled target domain. Due to the lack of supervision in the target domain, it is crucial to identify the underlying similarity-and-dissimilarity relationships among the unlabelled samples in the target domain. In order to use the whole data relationships efficiently in mini-batch training, we apply a series of memory modules to maintain an up-to-date representation of the entire dataset. Unlike the simple exemplar memory in previous works, we propose a novel multi-…
Domain generalization person re-identification (DG Re-ID) aims to directly deploy a model trained on the source domain to the unseen target domain with good generalization, which is a challenging problem and has practical value in a real-world deployment. In the existing DG Re-ID methods, invariant operations are effective in extracting domain generalization features, and Instance Normalization (IN) or Batch Normalization (BN) is used to alleviate the bias to unseen domains. Due to domain-specific information being used to capture discriminability of the individual source domain, the generaliz…
The State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University（南京大学计算机软件新技术国家重点实验室）；School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong（伍伦贡大学计算机与信息技术学院）
In this paper, we observe that most false positive images (i.e., different identities with query images) in the top ranking list usually have the similar color information with the query image in person re-identification (Re-ID). Meanwhile, when we use the greyscale images generated from RGB images to conduct the person Re-ID task, some hard query images can obtain better performance compared with using RGB images. Therefore, RGB and greyscale images seem to be complementary to each other for person Re-ID. In this paper, we aim to utilize both RGB and greyscale images to improve the person Re-…
Person re-identification (ReID) aims to match people across multiple non-overlapping video cameras deployed at different locations. To address this challenging problem, many metric learning approaches have been proposed, among which triplet loss is one of the state-of-the-arts. In this work, we explore the margin between positive and negative pairs of triplets and prove that large margin is beneficial. In particular, we propose a novel multi-stage training strategy which learns incremental triplet margin and improves triplet loss effectively. Multiple levels of feature maps are exploited to ma…
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology（上海理工大学）
In addition to considering the recognition difficulty caused by human posture and occlusion, it is also necessary to solve the modal differences caused by different imaging systems in the Visible-Thermal cross-modal person re-identification (VT-ReID) task. In this paper,we propose the Cross-modal Local Shortest Path and Global Enhancement (CM-LSP-GE) modules,a two-stream network based on joint learning of local and global features. The core idea of our paper is to use local feature alignment to solve occlusion problem, and to solve modal difference by strengthening global feature. Firstly, Att…
Model fine-tuning is a widely used transfer learning approach in person Re-identification (ReID) applications, which fine-tuning a pre-trained feature extraction model into the target scenario instead of training a model from scratch. It is challenging due to the significant variations inside the target scenario, e.g., different camera viewpoint, illumination changes, and occlusion. These variations result in a gap between the distribution of each mini-batch and the whole dataset's distribution when using mini-batch training. In this paper, we study model fine-tuning from the perspective of th…
Xiamen University（厦门大学）；University of Trento（特伦托大学）；Minnan Normal University（闽南师范大学）
Recent advances in person re-identification (ReID) obtain impressive accuracy in the supervised and unsupervised learning settings. However, most of the existing methods need to train a new model for a new domain by accessing data. Due to public privacy, the new domain data are not always accessible, leading to a limited applicability of these methods. In this paper, we study the problem of multi-source domain generalization in ReID, which aims to learn a model that can perform well on unseen domains with only several labeled source domains. To address this problem, we propose the Memory-based…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
Existing disentangled-based methods for generalizable person re-identification aim at directly disentangling person representations into domain-relevant interference and identity-relevant feature. However, they ignore that some crucial characteristics are stubbornly entwined in both the domain-relevant interference and identity-relevant feature, which are intractable to decompose in an unsupervised manner. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Calibrated Feature Decomposition (CFD) module that focuses on improving the generalization capacity for person re-identification through a mo…
Xiamen University（厦门大学）；University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）；Baidu Research（百度研究院）
This paper considers the domain adaptive person re-identification (re-ID) problem: learning a re-ID model from a labeled source domain and an unlabeled target domain. Conventional methods are mainly to reduce feature distribution gap between the source and target domains. However, these studies largely neglect the intra-domain variations in the target domain, which contain critical factors influencing the testing performance on the target domain. In this work, we comprehensively investigate into the intra-domain variations of the target domain and propose to generalize the re-ID model w.r.t th…
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；Longfor Inc.（龙湖集团）
Domain generalizable (DG) person re-identification (ReID) aims to test across unseen domains without access to the target domain data at training time, which is a realistic but challenging problem. In contrast to methods assuming an identical model for different domains, Mixture of Experts (MoE) exploits multiple domain-specific networks for leveraging complementary information between domains, obtaining impressive results. However, prior MoE-based DG ReID methods suffer from a large model size with the increase of the number of source domains, and most of them overlook the exploitation of dom…
Unsupervised person re-identification (Re-ID) attracts increasing attention due to its potential to resolve the scalability problem of supervised Re-ID models. Most existing unsupervised methods adopt an iterative clustering mechanism, where the network was trained based on pseudo labels generated by unsupervised clustering. However, clustering errors are inevitable. To generate high-quality pseudo-labels and mitigate the impact of clustering errors, we propose a novel clustering relationship modeling framework for unsupervised person Re-ID. Specifically, before clustering, the relation betwee…
Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）；University of California, Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校）；Nanjing University of Finance & Economics（南京财经大学）；Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics（南京航空航天大学）；Jiangsu Guidgine Educational Evaluation Inc（江苏Guidgine教育评估有限公司）
Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of Small Private Online Courses (SPOC) which is able to highly customized and personalized to adapt variable educational requests, in which machine learning techniques are explored to summarize and predict the learner's performance, mostly focus on the final grade. However, the problem is that the final grade of learners on SPOC is generally seriously imbalance which handicaps the training of prediction model. To solve this problem, a sampling batch normalization embedded deep neural network (SBNEDNN) method is developed in this paper. First, a comb…
Nanjing University（南京大学）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）；University of Wollongong（伍伦贡大学）
Unsupervised cross-domain person re-identification (Re-ID) faces two key issues. One is the data distribution discrepancy between source and target domains, and the other is the lack of labelling information in target domain. They are addressed in this paper from the perspective of representation learning. For the first issue, we highlight the presence of camera-level sub-domains as a unique characteristic of person Re-ID, and develop camera-aware domain adaptation to reduce the discrepancy not only between source and target domains but also across these sub-domains. For the second issue, we e…
Baidu Inc（百度公司）；Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods for person re-identification (re-ID) aim at transferring re-ID knowledge from labeled source data to unlabeled target data. Although achieving great success, most of them only use limited data from a single-source domain for model pre-training, making the rich labeled data insufficiently exploited. To make full use of the valuable labeled data, we introduce the multi-source concept into UDA person re-ID field, where multiple source datasets are used during training. However, because of domain gaps, simply combining different datasets only brings lim…
The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Tencent AI Lab（腾讯人工智能实验室）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)（香港中文大学（深圳））；Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data（深圳大数据研究院）
Dancing video retargeting aims to synthesize a video that transfers the dance movements from a source video to a target person. Previous work need collect a several-minute-long video of a target person with thousands of frames to train a personalized model. However, the trained model can only generate videos of the same person. To address the limitations, recent work tackled few-shot dancing video retargeting, which learns to synthesize videos of unseen persons by leveraging a few frames of them. In practice, given a few frames of a person, these work simply regarded them as a batch of individ…
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；Guangdong University of Foreign Studies（广东外语外贸大学）；WINNER Technology；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）；Guilin University of Electronic Technology（桂林电子科技大学）
Multi-Person Tracking (MPT) is often addressed within the detection-to-association paradigm. In such approaches, human detections are first extracted in every frame and person trajectories are then recovered by a procedure of data association (usually offline). However, their performances usually degenerate in presence of detection errors, mutual interactions and occlusions. In this paper, we present a deep learning based MPT approach that learns instance-aware representations of tracked persons and robustly online infers states of the tracked persons. Specifically, we design a multi-branch ne…
UnityGraph: Unified Learning of Spatio-temporal features for Multi-person Motion Prediction
Information Engineering College, Capital Normal University（首都师范大学信息工程学院）；School of Intelligent Engineering and Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学智能工程与自动化学院）
School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；NLPR & CEBSIT & CRIPAC, CASIA（中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别国家重点实验室、计算智能与信号处理实验室、智能感知与计算研究中心）；JD AI Research（京东人工智能研究院）
Visible-Infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) aims to match cross-modality pedestrian images, breaking through the limitation of single-modality person ReID in dark environment. In order to mitigate the impact of large modality discrepancy, existing works manually design various two-stream architectures to separately learn modality-specific and modality-sharable representations. Such a manual design routine, however, highly depends on massive experiments and empirical practice, which is time consuming and labor intensive. In this paper, we systematically study the manually designed archi…
Tongji University（同济大学）；ByteDance AI Lab（字节跳动人工智能实验室）；University of Guelph（圭尔夫大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
Clothes style transfer for person video generation is a challenging task, due to drastic variations of intra-person appearance and video scenarios. To tackle this problem, most recent AdaIN-based architectures are proposed to extract clothes and scenario features for generation. However, these approaches suffer from being short of fine-grained details and are prone to distort the origin person. To further improve the generation performance, we propose a novel framework with disentangled multi-branch encoders and a shared decoder. Moreover, to pursue the strong video spatio-temporal consistency…
