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Improving Deep Visual Representation for Person Re-identification by Global and Local Image-language Association

5 Aug 2018ECCV 2018 9arXiv:1808.01571archive 2025-07-28

Dapeng Chen, Hongsheng Li, Xihui Liu, Yantao Shen, Zejian yuan, Xiaogang Wang

Person re-identification is an important task that requires learning discriminative visual features for distinguishing different person identities. Diverse auxiliary information has been utilized to improve the visual feature learning. In this paper, we propose to exploit natural language description as additional training supervisions for effective visual features. Compared with other auxiliary information, language can describe a specific person from more compact and semantic visual aspects, thus is complementary to the pixel-level image data. Our method not only learns better global visual feature with the supervision of the overall description but also enforces semantic consistencies between local visual and linguistic features, which is achieved by building global and local image-language associations. The global image-language association is established according to the identity labels, while the local association is based upon the implicit correspondences between image regions and noun phrases. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of employing language as training supervisions with the two association schemes. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance without utilizing any auxiliary information during testing and shows better performance than other joint embedding methods for the image-language association.

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Person Re-IdentificationText based Person Retrieval

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Text based Person Retrieval CUHK-PEDES GLA R@1 43.58 #20 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Text based Person Retrieval CUHK-PEDES GLA R@10 76.26 #20 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Text based Person Retrieval CUHK-PEDES GLA R@5 66.93 #20 of 21 Archive leaderboard report

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