Vision Transformer for Robust Occluded Person Reidentification in Complex Surveillance Scenes

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Main Authors: Li, Bo, Zheng, Duyuan, Liu, Xinyang, Li, Qingwen, Li, Hong, Cui, Hongyan, Gao, Ge, Liu, Chen
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author Li, Bo
Zheng, Duyuan
Liu, Xinyang
Li, Qingwen
Li, Hong
Cui, Hongyan
Gao, Ge
Liu, Chen
author_facet Li, Bo
Zheng, Duyuan
Liu, Xinyang
Li, Qingwen
Li, Hong
Cui, Hongyan
Gao, Ge
Liu, Chen
contents Person re-identification (ReID) in surveillance is challenged by occlusion, viewpoint distortion, and poor image quality. Most existing methods rely on complex modules or perform well only on clear frontal images. We propose Sh-ViT (Shuffling Vision Transformer), a lightweight and robust model for occluded person ReID. Built on ViT-Base, Sh-ViT introduces three components: First, a Shuffle module in the final Transformer layer to break spatial correlations and enhance robustness to occlusion and blur; Second, scenario-adapted augmentation (geometric transforms, erasing, blur, and color adjustment) to simulate surveillance conditions; Third, DeiT-based knowledge distillation to improve learning with limited labels.To support real-world evaluation, we construct the MyTT dataset, containing over 10,000 pedestrians and 30,000+ images from base station inspections, with frequent equipment occlusion and camera variations. Experiments show that Sh-ViT achieves 83.2% Rank-1 and 80.1% mAP on MyTT, outperforming CNN and ViT baselines, and 94.6% Rank-1 and 87.5% mAP on Market1501, surpassing state-of-the-art methods.In summary, Sh-ViT improves robustness to occlusion and blur without external modules, offering a practical solution for surveillance-based personnel monitoring.
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spellingShingle Vision Transformer for Robust Occluded Person Reidentification in Complex Surveillance Scenes
Li, Bo
Zheng, Duyuan
Liu, Xinyang
Li, Qingwen
Li, Hong
Cui, Hongyan
Gao, Ge
Liu, Chen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Person re-identification (ReID) in surveillance is challenged by occlusion, viewpoint distortion, and poor image quality. Most existing methods rely on complex modules or perform well only on clear frontal images. We propose Sh-ViT (Shuffling Vision Transformer), a lightweight and robust model for occluded person ReID. Built on ViT-Base, Sh-ViT introduces three components: First, a Shuffle module in the final Transformer layer to break spatial correlations and enhance robustness to occlusion and blur; Second, scenario-adapted augmentation (geometric transforms, erasing, blur, and color adjustment) to simulate surveillance conditions; Third, DeiT-based knowledge distillation to improve learning with limited labels.To support real-world evaluation, we construct the MyTT dataset, containing over 10,000 pedestrians and 30,000+ images from base station inspections, with frequent equipment occlusion and camera variations. Experiments show that Sh-ViT achieves 83.2% Rank-1 and 80.1% mAP on MyTT, outperforming CNN and ViT baselines, and 94.6% Rank-1 and 87.5% mAP on Market1501, surpassing state-of-the-art methods.In summary, Sh-ViT improves robustness to occlusion and blur without external modules, offering a practical solution for surveillance-based personnel monitoring.
title Vision Transformer for Robust Occluded Person Reidentification in Complex Surveillance Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27677