Affiliations: [a]
School of Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan Hubei, China
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School of Animal Science and Nutritional Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan Hubei, China
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author. Bin Li, School of Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, No. 68 Xuefu South Road Changqing Garden, Wuhan Hubei, China. E-mail: lb420@whpu.edu.cn.
Abstract: Person re-identification identify a specific person in surveillance network by similarity measurement between images of different camera views. However, existing metric learning based methods suffer from over-fitting problem. To solve this problem, a resampled linear discriminant analysis (LDA) method was proposed based on the statistical and topological characteristics of pedestrian images. This method utilized the k-nearest neighbours to form potential positive sample pairs. The potential positive pairs are used to improve the metric model and generalize the metric model to the test data. By minimizing the inter-class divergence of potential positive sample pairs, a semi-supervised re-sampling LDA person re-identification algorithm was established. It was then tested on the VIPeR, CUHK01 and Market 1501datasets. The results show that the proposed method achieves the best performance compared to some available methods. Especially, the proposed method outplays the best comparison method by 0.6% and 5.76% at rank-1 identification rate on the VIPeR and CUHK01 datasets respectively. At the same time, the improved LDA algorithm has improved the rank-1 identification accuracy of traditional LDA method by 9.36% and 32.11% on these two datasets respectively. Besides, the proposed method is limited to Market-1501 dataset when the test data is of large size.
Keywords: Person re-identification, measurement model, LDA, semi-supervised learning
