Median Stable Clustering and Global Distance Classification for Cross-Domain Person Re-Identification

• Published in: IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 3164 - 3177
• Main Authors: Pang, Zhiqi, Guo, Jifeng, Ma, Zhiqiang, Sun, Wenbo, Xiao, Yanbang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Cameras; Classification; Clustering; Data mining; Deep learning; domain adaptation; Domains; Feature extraction; Loss measurement; Mathematical models; Measurement methods; Parameter sensitivity; person re-identification; Sensitivity; Similarity; Sun; Training; unsupervised learning
• ISSN: 1051-8215; 1558-2205
• DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3103753

The person re-identification (ReID) method in a single-domain achieves appealing performance, but its reliance on label information greatly limits its extensibility. Therefore, the unsupervised cross-domain ReID method has received extensive attention. Its purpose is to optimize the model by using the labelled source domain and the unlabelled target domain and finally make the model well generalized in the target domain. We propose an unsupervised cross-domain ReID method based on median stable clustering (MSC) and global distance classification (GDC). Specifically, the measurement method used by MSC comprehensively considers the similarity between clusters, the number of samples in a cluster, and the combined similarity within a cluster. Different from the method based on triple loss, GDC can separate the distance distribution of positive and negative sample pairs in a global scope. In addition, considering that model performance is very sensitive to probability parameters when source domain memory is reconsolidated, we designed a dynamic memory reconsolidation (DMR) method to reduce the influence of parameters on performance. Extensive experiments on large-scale datasets (Market-1501, DukeMTMC-reID and MSMT17) demonstrate the superior performance of MSC-GDC over the state-of-the-art methods.