Title
Alleviating Modality Bias Training for Infrared-Visible Person Re-Identification
Abstract
The task of infrared-visible person re-identification (IV-reID) is to recognize people across two modalities (i.e., RGB and IR). Existing cutting-edge approaches normally use a pair of images that have the same IDs (i.e., ID-tied cross-modality image pairs) and input them into an ImageNet-trained ResNet50. The ResNet50 backbone model can learn shared features across modalities to tolerate modality discrepancies between RGB and IR. This work will unveil a Modality Bias Training (MBT) problem that is less discussed in IV-reID, which will demonstrate that MBT significantly compromises the performance of IV-reID. Due to MBT, IR information can be overwhelmed by RGB information during training when the ResNet50 model is pretrained based on a large amount of RGB images from ImageNet. Thus, the trained models are more inclined to RGB information. Accordingly, the cross-modality generalization ability of the model is also compromised. To tackle this issue, we present a Dual-level Learning Strategy (DLS) that 1) enforces the focus of the network on ID-exclusive (rather than ID-tied) labels of cross-modality image pairs to mitigate the problem of MBT and 2) introduces third modality data that contain both RGB and IR information to further prevent the information from the IR modality from being overwhelmed during training. Our third modality images are generated by a generative adversarial network. A dynamic ID-exclusive Smooth (dIDeS) label is proposed for the generated third modality data. In experiments, comprehensive experiments are carried out to demonstrate the success of DLS in tackling the MBT issue exposed in IV-reID.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TMM.2021.3067760
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Training, Gallium nitride, Cameras, Task analysis, Network architecture, Lighting, Data models, Cross modality, modality bias training, person re-identification
Journal
24
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-9210
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Huang122627.65
Qiang Wu230440.42
Jingsong Xu38012.87
chenglin zhao4319.38
Peng Zhang5182.34
Zhaoxiang Zhang6102299.76