Learning from Synchronization: Self-Supervised Uncalibrated Multi-View Person Association in Challenging Scenes

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Autori principali: Chen, Keqi, Srivastav, Vinkle, Mutter, Didier, Padoy, Nicolas
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author Chen, Keqi
Srivastav, Vinkle
Mutter, Didier
Padoy, Nicolas
author_facet Chen, Keqi
Srivastav, Vinkle
Mutter, Didier
Padoy, Nicolas
contents Multi-view person association is a fundamental step towards multi-view analysis of human activities. Although the person re-identification features have been proven effective, they become unreliable in challenging scenes where persons share similar appearances. Therefore, cross-view geometric constraints are required for a more robust association. However, most existing approaches are either fully-supervised using ground-truth identity labels or require calibrated camera parameters that are hard to obtain. In this work, we investigate the potential of learning from synchronization, and propose a self-supervised uncalibrated multi-view person association approach, Self-MVA, without using any annotations. Specifically, we propose a self-supervised learning framework, consisting of an encoder-decoder model and a self-supervised pretext task, cross-view image synchronization, which aims to distinguish whether two images from different views are captured at the same time. The model encodes each person's unified geometric and appearance features, and we train it by utilizing synchronization labels for supervision after applying Hungarian matching to bridge the gap between instance-wise and image-wise distances. To further reduce the solution space, we propose two types of self-supervised linear constraints: multi-view re-projection and pairwise edge association. Extensive experiments on three challenging public benchmark datasets (WILDTRACK, MVOR, and SOLDIERS) show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art results, surpassing existing unsupervised and fully-supervised approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/CAMMA-public/Self-MVA.
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spellingShingle Learning from Synchronization: Self-Supervised Uncalibrated Multi-View Person Association in Challenging Scenes
Chen, Keqi
Srivastav, Vinkle
Mutter, Didier
Padoy, Nicolas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multi-view person association is a fundamental step towards multi-view analysis of human activities. Although the person re-identification features have been proven effective, they become unreliable in challenging scenes where persons share similar appearances. Therefore, cross-view geometric constraints are required for a more robust association. However, most existing approaches are either fully-supervised using ground-truth identity labels or require calibrated camera parameters that are hard to obtain. In this work, we investigate the potential of learning from synchronization, and propose a self-supervised uncalibrated multi-view person association approach, Self-MVA, without using any annotations. Specifically, we propose a self-supervised learning framework, consisting of an encoder-decoder model and a self-supervised pretext task, cross-view image synchronization, which aims to distinguish whether two images from different views are captured at the same time. The model encodes each person's unified geometric and appearance features, and we train it by utilizing synchronization labels for supervision after applying Hungarian matching to bridge the gap between instance-wise and image-wise distances. To further reduce the solution space, we propose two types of self-supervised linear constraints: multi-view re-projection and pairwise edge association. Extensive experiments on three challenging public benchmark datasets (WILDTRACK, MVOR, and SOLDIERS) show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art results, surpassing existing unsupervised and fully-supervised approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/CAMMA-public/Self-MVA.
title Learning from Synchronization: Self-Supervised Uncalibrated Multi-View Person Association in Challenging Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13739