Interpretable and Generalizable Person Re-identification with Query-Adaptive Convolution and Temporal Lifting

Authors

Shengcai Liao, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Ling Shao, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence & Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Abstract

For person re-identification, existing deep networks often focus on representation learning. However, without transfer learning, the learned model is fixed as is, which is not adaptable for handling various unseen scenarios. In this paper, beyond representation learning, we consider how to formulate person image matching directly in deep feature maps. We treat image matching as finding local correspondences in feature maps, and construct query-adaptive convolution kernels on the fly to achieve local matching. In this way, the matching process and results are interpretable, and this explicit matching is more generalizable than representation features to unseen scenarios, such as unknown misalignments, pose or viewpoint changes. To facilitate end-to-end training of this architecture, we further build a class memory module to cache feature maps of the most recent samples of each class, so as to compute image matching losses for metric learning. Through direct cross-dataset evaluation, the proposed Query-Adaptive Convolution (QAConv) method gains large improvements over popular learning methods (about 10%+ mAP), and achieves comparable results to many transfer learning methods. Besides, a model-free temporal cooccurrence based score weighting method called TLift is proposed, which improves the performance to a further extent, achieving state-of-the-art results in cross-dataset person re-identification. Code is available at https://github.com/ShengcaiLiao/QAConv.

First Page

456

Last Page

474

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-58621-8_27

Publication Date

11-27-2020

Keywords

Computer vision, Convolution, Image matching, Large dataset, Query processing, Transfer learning

Comments

IR conditions: non-described

Recommended Citation

S. Liao, and L. Shao, "Interpretable and Generalizable Person Re-identification with Query-Adaptive Convolution and Temporal Lifting", In Computer Vision (ECCV 2020), vol 12356 LNCS, pp. 456-474, Aug 2020. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58621-8_27

Additional Links

DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58621-8_27