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Learning Resolution-Adaptive Representations for Cross-Resolution Person Re-Identification

Yuanbo Wu, Lingqiao Liu Orcid Logo, Yang Wang Orcid Logo, Zheng Zhang Orcid Logo, Farid Boussaid, Mohammed Bennamoun Orcid Logo, Xianghua Xie Orcid Logo

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume: 32, Pages: 4800 - 4811

Swansea University Authors: Yuanbo Wu, Xianghua Xie Orcid Logo

Abstract

Cross-resolution person re-identification (CRReID) is a challenging and practical problem that involves matching low-resolution (LR) query identity images against high-resolution (HR) gallery images. Query images often suffer from resolution degradation due to the different capturing conditions from...

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Published in: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
ISSN: 1057-7149 1941-0042
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2023
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64124
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Abstract: Cross-resolution person re-identification (CRReID) is a challenging and practical problem that involves matching low-resolution (LR) query identity images against high-resolution (HR) gallery images. Query images often suffer from resolution degradation due to the different capturing conditions from real-world cameras. State-of-the-art solutions for CRReID either learn a resolution-invariant representation or adopt a super-resolution (SR) module to recover the missing information from the LR query. In this paper, we propose an alternative SR-free paradigm to directly compare HR and LR images via a dynamic metric that is adaptive to the resolution of a query image. We realize this idea by learning resolution-adaptive representations for cross-resolution comparison. We propose two resolution-adaptive mechanisms to achieve this. The first mechanism encodes the resolution specifics into different subvectors in the penultimate layer of the deep neural network, creating a varying-length representation. To better extract resolution-dependent information, we further propose to learn resolution-adaptive masks for intermediate residual feature blocks. A novel progressive learning strategy is proposed to train those masks properly. These two mechanisms are combined to boost the performance of CRReID. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance.
Keywords: Image resolution, Feature extraction ,Measurement,Training, Superresolution, Cameras, Adaptation models
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Start Page: 4800
End Page: 4811