Title
Video Person Re-Identification Using Attribute-Enhanced Features
Abstract
In this work we propose to boost video-based person re-identification (Re-ID) by using attribute-enhanced feature presentation. To this end, we not only try to use the ID-relevant attributes more effectively, but also for the first time in literature harness the ID-irrelevant attributes to help model training. The former mainly include gender, age, clothing characteristics, etc., which contain rich and supplementary information about the pedestrian; the latter include viewpoint, action, etc., which are seldom used for identification previously. In particular, we use the attributes to enhance the significant areas of the image with a novel Attribute Salient Region Enhance (ASRE) module that can attend more accurately to the body of the pedestrian, so as to better separate the target from the background. Furthermore, we find that many ID-irrelevant but subject-relevant factors, like the view angle and movement of the target pedestrian, have great impact on the two-dimensional appearance of a pedestrian. We then propose to exploit both the ID-relevant and the ID-irrelevant attributes via a novel triplet loss called the Viewpoint and Action-Invariant (VAI) triplet loss. Based on the above, we design an Attribute Salience Assisted Network (ASA-Net) to perform attribute recognition along with identity recognition, and use the attributes for feature enhancement and hard sample mining. Extensive experiments on MARS and DukeMTMC-VideoReID datasets show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-arts. Also, the visualizations of learning results further prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TCSVT.2022.3189027
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Video-based person Re-ID,pedestrian attribute,attribute salient region enhance,viewpoint and action-invariant triplet loss
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
1051-8215
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
41
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianrui Chai100.34
Zhiyuan Chen200.34
Annan Li343.08
Jiaxin Chen43312.08
Xinyu Mei500.34
Yunhong Wang63816278.50