Temporal Attribute-Appearance Learning Network for Video-based Person Re-Identification

Video-based person re-identification aims to match a specific pedestrian in surveillance videos across different time and locations. Human attributes and appearance are complementary to each other, both of them contribute to pedestrian matching. In this work, we propose a novel Temporal Attribute-Appearance Learning Network (TALNet) for video-based person re-identification. TALNet simultaneously exploits human attributes and appearance to learn comprehensive and effective pedestrian representations from videos. It explores hard visual attention and temporal-semantic context for attributes, and spatial-temporal dependencies among body parts for appearance, to boost the learning of them. Specifically, an attribute branch network is proposed with a spatial attention block and a temporal-semantic context block for learning robust attribute representation. The spatial attention block focuses the network on corresponding regions within video frames related to each attribute, the temporal-semantic context block learns both the temporal context for each attribute across video frames and the semantic context among attributes in each video frame. The appearance branch network is designed to learn effective appearance representation from both whole body and body parts with spatial-temporal dependencies among them. TALNet leverages the complementation between attribute and appearance representations, and jointly optimizes them by multi-task learning fashion. Moreover, we annotate ID-level attributes for each pedestrian in the two commonly used video datasets. Extensive experiments on these datasets, have verified the superiority of TALNet over state-of-the-art methods.

Co-Saliency Spatio-Temporal Interaction Network for Person Re-Identification in Videos

Person re-identification aims at identifying a certain pedestrian across non-overlapping camera networks. Video-based re-identification approaches have gained significant attention recently, expanding image-based approaches by learning features from multiple frames. In this work, we propose a novel Co-Saliency Spatio-Temporal Interaction Network (CSTNet) for person re-identification in videos. It captures the common salient foreground regions among video frames and explores the spatial-temporal long-range context interdependency from such regions, towards learning discriminative pedestrian representation. Specifically, multiple co-saliency learning modules within CSTNet are designed to utilize the correlated information across video frames to extract the salient features from the task-relevant regions and suppress background interference. Moreover, multiple spatialtemporal interaction modules within CSTNet are proposed, which exploit the spatial and temporal long-range context interdependencies on such features and spatial-temporal information correlation, to enhance feature representation. Extensive experiments on two benchmarks have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.