KISS+ for Rapid and Accurate Pedestrian Re-Identification

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Abstract

Pedestrian re-identification (Re-ID) is a very challenging and unavoidable problem in the field of multi-camera surveillance in smart transportation. Among many ways to solve this problem, keep it simple and straightforward (KISS) metric learning (KISSME) stands out since it has unbeatable advantages in running time while maintaining highly acceptable matching rate. It can be used to realize effective pedestrian Re-ID in an open world. Although it has achieved highly acceptable performance in some applications, it encounters a small sample size (S3) problem that causes too small eigenvalues of its covariance matrix, thus resulting in an instability issue. Its large eigenvalues are overestimated; while its small ones are underestimated. In order to solve this problem, we use an orthogonal basis vector to generate virtual samples to overcome the S3 problem. The resulting algorithm named KISS+ is experimentally shown to have the eigenvalues of its covariance matrix significantly larger than those of the original KISSME. In order to show its advantage in pedestrian Re-ID, this work uses multi-feature fusion to extract more discriminant features, and obtain a low-dimensional expression of features through dimension reduction. Experiments based on several well-known databases show that our method can improve the matching rate, while maintaining the advantage of fast computation. Compared with deep learning algorithms, our algorithm does not achieve their matching rate, but it is highly suitable for real-time pedestrian Re-ID of an open world due to its simplicity, easy operation and fast execution.

Identifier

85098580922 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2019.2958741

e-ISSN

15580016

ISSN

15249050

First Page

394

Last Page

403

Issue

1

Volume

22

Grant

61305014

Fund Ref

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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