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Domain Adaptive Egocentric Person Re-identification

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-03-09 v1

Abstract

Person re-identification (re-ID) in first-person (egocentric) vision is a fairly new and unexplored problem. With the increase of wearable video recording devices, egocentric data becomes readily available, and person re-identification has the potential to benefit greatly from this. However, there is a significant lack of large scale structured egocentric datasets for person re-identification, due to the poor video quality and lack of individuals in most of the recorded content. Although a lot of research has been done in person re-identification based on fixed surveillance cameras, these do not directly benefit egocentric re-ID. Machine learning models trained on the publicly available large scale re-ID datasets cannot be applied to egocentric re-ID due to the dataset bias problem. The proposed algorithm makes use of neural style transfer (NST) that incorporates a variant of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to utilize the benefits of both fixed camera vision and first-person vision. NST generates images having features from both egocentric datasets and fixed camera datasets, that are fed through a VGG-16 network trained on a fixed-camera dataset for feature extraction. These extracted features are then used to re-identify individuals. The fixed camera dataset Market-1501 and the first-person dataset EGO Re-ID are applied for this work and the results are on par with the present re-identification models in the egocentric domain.

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@article{arxiv.2103.04870,
  title  = {Domain Adaptive Egocentric Person Re-identification},
  author = {Ankit Choudhary and Deepak Mishra and Arnab Karmakar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04870},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures, In Proceedings of the Fifth IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), 2020

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