Bridging the Gap: Multi-Level Cross-Modality Joint Alignment for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

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Autores principales: Liang, Tengfei, Jin, Yi, Liu, Wu, Wang, Tao, Feng, Songhe, Li, Yidong
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author Liang, Tengfei
Jin, Yi
Liu, Wu
Wang, Tao
Feng, Songhe
Li, Yidong
author_facet Liang, Tengfei
Jin, Yi
Liu, Wu
Wang, Tao
Feng, Songhe
Li, Yidong
contents Visible-Infrared person Re-IDentification (VI-ReID) is a challenging cross-modality image retrieval task that aims to match pedestrians' images across visible and infrared cameras. To solve the modality gap, existing mainstream methods adopt a learning paradigm converting the image retrieval task into an image classification task with cross-entropy loss and auxiliary metric learning losses. These losses follow the strategy of adjusting the distribution of extracted embeddings to reduce the intra-class distance and increase the inter-class distance. However, such objectives do not precisely correspond to the final test setting of the retrieval task, resulting in a new gap at the optimization level. By rethinking these keys of VI-ReID, we propose a simple and effective method, the Multi-level Cross-modality Joint Alignment (MCJA), bridging both modality and objective-level gap. For the former, we design the Modality Alignment Augmentation, which consists of three novel strategies, the weighted grayscale, cross-channel cutmix, and spectrum jitter augmentation, effectively reducing modality discrepancy in the image space. For the latter, we introduce a new Cross-Modality Retrieval loss. It is the first work to constrain from the perspective of the ranking list, aligning with the goal of the testing stage. Moreover, based on the global feature only, our method exhibits good performance and can serve as a strong baseline method for the VI-ReID community.
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spellingShingle Bridging the Gap: Multi-Level Cross-Modality Joint Alignment for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
Liang, Tengfei
Jin, Yi
Liu, Wu
Wang, Tao
Feng, Songhe
Li, Yidong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visible-Infrared person Re-IDentification (VI-ReID) is a challenging cross-modality image retrieval task that aims to match pedestrians' images across visible and infrared cameras. To solve the modality gap, existing mainstream methods adopt a learning paradigm converting the image retrieval task into an image classification task with cross-entropy loss and auxiliary metric learning losses. These losses follow the strategy of adjusting the distribution of extracted embeddings to reduce the intra-class distance and increase the inter-class distance. However, such objectives do not precisely correspond to the final test setting of the retrieval task, resulting in a new gap at the optimization level. By rethinking these keys of VI-ReID, we propose a simple and effective method, the Multi-level Cross-modality Joint Alignment (MCJA), bridging both modality and objective-level gap. For the former, we design the Modality Alignment Augmentation, which consists of three novel strategies, the weighted grayscale, cross-channel cutmix, and spectrum jitter augmentation, effectively reducing modality discrepancy in the image space. For the latter, we introduce a new Cross-Modality Retrieval loss. It is the first work to constrain from the perspective of the ranking list, aligning with the goal of the testing stage. Moreover, based on the global feature only, our method exhibits good performance and can serve as a strong baseline method for the VI-ReID community.
title Bridging the Gap: Multi-Level Cross-Modality Joint Alignment for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08316