Low Resolution Information Also Matters: Learning Multi-Resolution Representations for Person Re-Identification

Low Resolution Information Also Matters: Learning Multi-Resolution Representations for Person Re-Identification

Guoqing Zhang, Yuhao Chen, Weisi Lin, Arun Chandran, Xuan Jing

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 1295-1301. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/179

As a prevailing task in video surveillance and forensics field, person re-identification (re-ID) aims to match person images captured from non-overlapped cameras. In unconstrained scenarios, person images often suffer from the resolution mismatch problem, i.e., Cross-Resolution Person Re-ID. To overcome this problem, most existing methods restore low resolution (LR) images to high resolution (HR) by super-resolution (SR). However, they only focus on the HR feature extraction and ignore the valid information from original LR images. In this work, we explore the influence of resolutions on feature extraction and develop a novel method for cross-resolution person re-ID called Multi-Resolution Representations Joint Learning (MRJL). Our method consists of a Resolution Reconstruction Network (RRN) and a Dual Feature Fusion Network (DFFN). The RRN uses an input image to construct a HR version and a LR version with an encoder and two decoders, while the DFFN adopts a dual-branch structure to generate person representations from multi-resolution images. Comprehensive experiments on five benchmarks verify the superiority of the proposed MRJL over the relevent state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords:
Computer Vision: Biometrics, Face and Gesture Recognition
Machine Learning Applications: Applications of Supervised Learning
Machine Learning Applications: Networks