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Joint Detection and Identification Feature Learning for Person Search

7 Apr 2016CVPR 2017 7arXiv:1604.01850archive 2025-07-28

Tong Xiao, Shuang Li, Bochao Wang, Liang Lin, Xiaogang Wang

Existing person re-identification benchmarks and methods mainly focus on matching cropped pedestrian images between queries and candidates. However, it is different from real-world scenarios where the annotations of pedestrian bounding boxes are unavailable and the target person needs to be searched from a gallery of whole scene images. To close the gap, we propose a new deep learning framework for person search. Instead of breaking it down into two separate tasks---pedestrian detection and person re-identification, we jointly handle both aspects in a single convolutional neural network. An Online Instance Matching (OIM) loss function is proposed to train the network effectively, which is scalable to datasets with numerous identities. To validate our approach, we collect and annotate a large-scale benchmark dataset for person search. It contains 18,184 images, 8,432 identities, and 96,143 pedestrian bounding boxes. Experiments show that our framework outperforms other separate approaches, and the proposed OIM loss function converges much faster and better than the conventional Softmax loss.

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Pedestrian DetectionPerson Re-IdentificationPerson Search

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CUHK-SYSU

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Person Re-Identification CUHK03 OIM Loss 45 MAP 72.5 #10 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Person Re-Identification CUHK03 OIM Loss 45 Rank-1 77.5 #10 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Person Re-Identification DukeMTMC-reID OIM Rank-1 68.1 #85 of 94 Archive leaderboard report
Person Re-Identification DukeMTMC-reID OIM mAP 47.4 #85 of 94 Archive leaderboard report

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Softmax

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