Deep Reinforcement Learning Attention Selection For Person Re-Identification
XU LAN, HangXiao Wang, Shaogang Gong and Xiatian Zhu
Abstract
Existing person re-identification (re-id) methods assume the provision of accurately
cropped person bounding boxes with minimum background noise, mostly by manually
cropping. This is significantly breached in practice when person bounding boxes must
be detected automatically given a very large number of images and/or videos processed.
Compared to carefully cropped manually, auto-detected bounding boxes are far less accurate with random amount of background clutter which can degrade notably person re-id
matching accuracy. In this work, we develop a joint learning deep model that optimises
person re-id attention selection within any auto-detected person bounding boxes by reinforcement learning of background clutter minimisation subject to re-id label pairwise
constraints. Specifically, we formulate a novel unified re-id architecture called Identity
DiscriminativE Attention reinforcement Learning (IDEAL) to accurately select re-id attention in auto-detected bounding boxes for optimising re-id performance. Our model
can improve re-id accuracy comparable to that from exhaustive human manual cropping
of bounding boxes with additional advantages from identity discriminative attention selection that specially benefits re-id tasks beyond human knowledge.
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10.5244/C.31.121
https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.31.121
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XU LAN, HangXiao Wang, Shaogang Gong and Xiatian Zhu. Deep Reinforcement Learning Attention Selection For Person Re-Identification. In T.K. Kim, S. Zafeiriou, G. Brostow and K. Mikolajczyk, editors, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pages 121.1-121.16. BMVA Press, September 2017.
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@inproceedings{BMVC2017_121,
title={Deep Reinforcement Learning Attention Selection For Person Re-Identification},
author={XU LAN, HangXiao Wang, Shaogang Gong and Xiatian Zhu},
year={2017},
month={September},
pages={121.1-121.16},
articleno={121},
numpages={16},
booktitle={Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
publisher={BMVA Press},
editor={Tae-Kyun Kim, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Gabriel Brostow and Krystian Mikolajczyk},
doi={10.5244/C.31.121},
isbn={1-901725-60-X},
url={https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.31.121}
}