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Cross-view Asymmetric Metric Learning for Unsupervised Person Re-identification

27 Aug 2017ICCV 2017 10arXiv:1708.08062archive 2025-07-28

Hong-Xing Yu, An-Cong Wu, Wei-Shi Zheng

While metric learning is important for Person re-identification (RE-ID), a significant problem in visual surveillance for cross-view pedestrian matching, existing metric models for RE-ID are mostly based on supervised learning that requires quantities of labeled samples in all pairs of camera views for training. However, this limits their scalabilities to realistic applications, in which a large amount of data over multiple disjoint camera views is available but not labelled. To overcome the problem, we propose unsupervised asymmetric metric learning for unsupervised RE-ID. Our model aims to learn an asymmetric metric, i.e., specific projection for each view, based on asymmetric clustering on cross-view person images. Our model finds a shared space where view-specific bias is alleviated and thus better matching performance can be achieved. Extensive experiments have been conducted on a baseline and five large-scale RE-ID datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. Through the comparison, we show that our model works much more suitable for unsupervised RE-ID compared to classical unsupervised metric learning models. We also compare with existing unsupervised RE-ID methods, and our model outperforms them with notable margins. Specifically, we report the results on large-scale unlabelled RE-ID dataset, which is important but unfortunately less concerned in literatures.

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ClusteringMetric LearningPerson Re-IdentificationUnsupervised Person Re-Identification

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Person Re-Identification Market-1501 CAMEL* Rank-1 54.5 #121 of 135 Archive leaderboard report
Person Re-Identification Market-1501 CAMEL* mAP 26.3 #121 of 135 Archive leaderboard report

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