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Part-Aligned Bilinear Representations for Person Re-identification

19 Apr 2018ECCV 2018 9arXiv:1804.07094archive 2025-07-28

Yumin Suh, Jingdong Wang, Siyu Tang, Tao Mei, Kyoung Mu Lee

We propose a novel network that learns a part-aligned representation for person re-identification. It handles the body part misalignment problem, that is, body parts are misaligned across human detections due to pose/viewpoint change and unreliable detection. Our model consists of a two-stream network (one stream for appearance map extraction and the other one for body part map extraction) and a bilinear-pooling layer that generates and spatially pools a part-aligned map. Each local feature of the part-aligned map is obtained by a bilinear mapping of the corresponding local appearance and body part descriptors. Our new representation leads to a robust image matching similarity, which is equivalent to an aggregation of the local similarities of the corresponding body parts combined with the weighted appearance similarity. This part-aligned representation reduces the part misalignment problem significantly. Our approach is also advantageous over other pose-guided representations (e.g., extracting representations over the bounding box of each body part) by learning part descriptors optimal for person re-identification. For training the network, our approach does not require any part annotation on the person re-identification dataset. Instead, we simply initialize the part sub-stream using a pre-trained sub-network of an existing pose estimation network, and train the whole network to minimize the re-identification loss. We validate the effectiveness of our approach by demonstrating its superiority over the state-of-the-art methods on the standard benchmark datasets, including Market-1501, CUHK03, CUHK01 and DukeMTMC, and standard video dataset MARS.

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