Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex Environments

Person re-identification (Re-ID) in camera networks under complex environments has achieved promising performance using deep feature representations. However, most approaches usually ignore to learn features from non-salient parts of pedestrian, which results in an incomplete pedestrian representati...

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Main Authors: Shuang Liu, Xiaolong Hao, Ronghua Zhang, Zhong Zhang, Tariq S. Durrani
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9043556/
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author Shuang Liu
Xiaolong Hao
Ronghua Zhang
Zhong Zhang
Tariq S. Durrani
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Xiaolong Hao
Ronghua Zhang
Zhong Zhang
Tariq S. Durrani
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description Person re-identification (Re-ID) in camera networks under complex environments has achieved promising performance using deep feature representations. However, most approaches usually ignore to learn features from non-salient parts of pedestrian, which results in an incomplete pedestrian representation. In this paper, we propose a novel person Re-ID method named Adversarial Erasing Attention (AEA) to mine discriminative completed features using an adversarial way. Specifically, the proposed AEA consists of the basic network and the complementary network. On the one hand, original pedestrian images are used to train the basic network in order to extract global and local deep features. On the other hand, to learn features complementary to the basic network, we propose the adversarial erasing operation, that locates non-salient areas with the help of attention map, to generate erased pedestrian images. Then, we utilize them to train the complementary network and adopt the dynamic strategy to match the dynamic status of AEA in the learning process. Hence, the diversity of training samples is enriched and the complementary network could discover new clues when learning deep features. Finally, we combine the features learned from the basic and complementary networks to represent the pedestrian image. Experiments on three databases (Market1501, CUHK03 and DukeMTMC-reID) demonstrate the proposed AEA achieves great performances.
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spelling doaj.art-36713c13c8da4913ae627ccfb2a19edb2022-12-21T22:02:37ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-018564695647910.1109/ACCESS.2020.29820329043556Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex EnvironmentsShuang Liu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-0690Xiaolong Hao1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-3016Ronghua Zhang2Zhong Zhang3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2993-8612Tariq S. Durrani4Tianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaTianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, ChinaTianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.KPerson re-identification (Re-ID) in camera networks under complex environments has achieved promising performance using deep feature representations. However, most approaches usually ignore to learn features from non-salient parts of pedestrian, which results in an incomplete pedestrian representation. In this paper, we propose a novel person Re-ID method named Adversarial Erasing Attention (AEA) to mine discriminative completed features using an adversarial way. Specifically, the proposed AEA consists of the basic network and the complementary network. On the one hand, original pedestrian images are used to train the basic network in order to extract global and local deep features. On the other hand, to learn features complementary to the basic network, we propose the adversarial erasing operation, that locates non-salient areas with the help of attention map, to generate erased pedestrian images. Then, we utilize them to train the complementary network and adopt the dynamic strategy to match the dynamic status of AEA in the learning process. Hence, the diversity of training samples is enriched and the complementary network could discover new clues when learning deep features. Finally, we combine the features learned from the basic and complementary networks to represent the pedestrian image. Experiments on three databases (Market1501, CUHK03 and DukeMTMC-reID) demonstrate the proposed AEA achieves great performances.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9043556/Person re-identificationdynamic strategyadversarial learning
spellingShingle Shuang Liu
Xiaolong Hao
Ronghua Zhang
Zhong Zhang
Tariq S. Durrani
Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex Environments
IEEE Access
Person re-identification
dynamic strategy
adversarial learning
title Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex Environments
title_full Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex Environments
title_fullStr Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex Environments
title_full_unstemmed Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex Environments
title_short Adversarial Erasing Attention for Person Re-Identification in Camera Networks Under Complex Environments
title_sort adversarial erasing attention for person re identification in camera networks under complex environments
topic Person re-identification
dynamic strategy
adversarial learning
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9043556/
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