Journal Article

Multiple Granularity Network and Dynamic Label for Domain Adaptive Person Re-identification

Wang, Xile, Song, Junyu, Zhang, Miaohui, Zhang, Sihan

2021

Overview

The domain adaptive person re-identification (Re-ID) has be more popular among researchers. Because it can save a lot of resources as it only exploits the source domain knowledge and does not need the complex annotation efforts in target domain. It aims to extend a model trained on a labeled dataset to another dataset which is unlabeled. Many works reduce feature distribution gap between two different datasets to solve the problem. However, these works ignore the problem which is the variations within an unlabeled dataset. In the paper, we propose a domain adaptive person Re-ID framework based on multiple granularity network and dynamic label (MGDL). Specifically, we send the images of two different datasets into multiple granularity network at the same time for joint training to reduce feature distribution gap which is between the two different datasets. The network is trained by two different kinds of pseudo labels, namely, conservative label and radical label. The two kinds of pseudo labels are used to alternating pull and push the feature distribution in the target domain to reduce the variations within an unlabeled dataset. Experiments have shown that the MGDL achieves competitive performance in person Re-ID which is under the cross-domain setting.

• Publisher: IOP Publishing