Generalizable Person Re-identification via Balancing Alignment and Uniformity

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Autori principali: Cho, Yoonki, Kim, Jaeyoon, Kim, Woo Jae, Jung, Junsik, Yoon, Sung-eui
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author Cho, Yoonki
Kim, Jaeyoon
Kim, Woo Jae
Jung, Junsik
Yoon, Sung-eui
author_facet Cho, Yoonki
Kim, Jaeyoon
Kim, Woo Jae
Jung, Junsik
Yoon, Sung-eui
contents Domain generalizable person re-identification (DG re-ID) aims to learn discriminative representations that are robust to distributional shifts. While data augmentation is a straightforward solution to improve generalization, certain augmentations exhibit a polarized effect in this task, enhancing in-distribution performance while deteriorating out-of-distribution performance. In this paper, we investigate this phenomenon and reveal that it leads to sparse representation spaces with reduced uniformity. To address this issue, we propose a novel framework, Balancing Alignment and Uniformity (BAU), which effectively mitigates this effect by maintaining a balance between alignment and uniformity. Specifically, BAU incorporates alignment and uniformity losses applied to both original and augmented images and integrates a weighting strategy to assess the reliability of augmented samples, further improving the alignment loss. Additionally, we introduce a domain-specific uniformity loss that promotes uniformity within each source domain, thereby enhancing the learning of domain-invariant features. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that BAU effectively exploits the advantages of data augmentation, which previous studies could not fully utilize, and achieves state-of-the-art performance without requiring complex training procedures. The code is available at \url{https://github.com/yoonkicho/BAU}.
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spellingShingle Generalizable Person Re-identification via Balancing Alignment and Uniformity
Cho, Yoonki
Kim, Jaeyoon
Kim, Woo Jae
Jung, Junsik
Yoon, Sung-eui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Domain generalizable person re-identification (DG re-ID) aims to learn discriminative representations that are robust to distributional shifts. While data augmentation is a straightforward solution to improve generalization, certain augmentations exhibit a polarized effect in this task, enhancing in-distribution performance while deteriorating out-of-distribution performance. In this paper, we investigate this phenomenon and reveal that it leads to sparse representation spaces with reduced uniformity. To address this issue, we propose a novel framework, Balancing Alignment and Uniformity (BAU), which effectively mitigates this effect by maintaining a balance between alignment and uniformity. Specifically, BAU incorporates alignment and uniformity losses applied to both original and augmented images and integrates a weighting strategy to assess the reliability of augmented samples, further improving the alignment loss. Additionally, we introduce a domain-specific uniformity loss that promotes uniformity within each source domain, thereby enhancing the learning of domain-invariant features. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that BAU effectively exploits the advantages of data augmentation, which previous studies could not fully utilize, and achieves state-of-the-art performance without requiring complex training procedures. The code is available at \url{https://github.com/yoonkicho/BAU}.
title Generalizable Person Re-identification via Balancing Alignment and Uniformity
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11471