EXAM: A Framework of Learning Extreme and Moderate Embeddings for Person Re-ID

Person re-identification (Re-ID) is challenging due to host of factors: the variety of human positions, difficulties in aligning bounding boxes, and complex backgrounds, among other factors. This paper proposes a new framework called EXAM (EXtreme And Moderate feature embeddings) for Re-ID tasks. Th...

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Main Authors: Guanqiu Qi, Gang Hu, Xiaofei Wang, Neal Mazur, Zhiqin Zhu, Matthew Haner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Imaging
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/7/1/6
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Summary:Person re-identification (Re-ID) is challenging due to host of factors: the variety of human positions, difficulties in aligning bounding boxes, and complex backgrounds, among other factors. This paper proposes a new framework called EXAM (EXtreme And Moderate feature embeddings) for Re-ID tasks. This is done using discriminative feature learning, requiring attention-based guidance during training. Here “Extreme” refers to salient human features and “Moderate” refers to common human features. In this framework, these types of embeddings are calculated by global max-pooling and average-pooling operations respectively; and then, jointly supervised by multiple triplet and cross-entropy loss functions. The processes of deducing attention from learned embeddings and discriminative feature learning are incorporated, and benefit from each other in this end-to-end framework. From the comparative experiments and ablation studies, it is shown that the proposed EXAM is effective, and its learned feature representation reaches state-of-the-art performance.
ISSN:2313-433X