Vision-Language Attribute Disentanglement and Reinforcement for Lifelong Person Re-Identification

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Main Authors: Xu, Kunlun, Cheng, Haotong, Li, Jiangmeng, Zou, Xu, Zhou, Jiahuan
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Published: 2026
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author Xu, Kunlun
Cheng, Haotong
Li, Jiangmeng
Zou, Xu
Zhou, Jiahuan
author_facet Xu, Kunlun
Cheng, Haotong
Li, Jiangmeng
Zou, Xu
Zhou, Jiahuan
contents Lifelong person re-identification (LReID) aims to learn from varying domains to obtain a unified person retrieval model. Existing LReID approaches typically focus on learning from scratch or a visual classification-pretrained model, while the Vision-Language Model (VLM) has shown generalizable knowledge in a variety of tasks. Although existing methods can be directly adapted to the VLM, since they only consider global-aware learning, the fine-grained attribute knowledge is underleveraged, leading to limited acquisition and anti-forgetting capacity. To address this problem, we introduce a novel VLM-driven LReID approach named Vision-Language Attribute Disentanglement and Reinforcement (VLADR). Our key idea is to explicitly model the universally shared human attributes to improve inter-domain knowledge transfer, thereby effectively utilizing historical knowledge to reinforce new knowledge learning and alleviate forgetting. Specifically, VLADR includes a Multi-grain Text Attribute Disentanglement mechanism that mines the global and diverse local text attributes of an image. Then, an Inter-domain Cross-modal Attribute Reinforcement scheme is developed, which introduces cross-modal attribute alignment to guide visual attribute extraction and adopts inter-domain attribute alignment to achieve fine-grained knowledge transfer. Experimental results demonstrate that our VLADR outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by 1.9\%-2.2\% and 2.1\%-2.5\% on anti-forgetting and generalization capacity. Our source code is available at https://github.com/zhoujiahuan1991/CVPR2026-VLADR
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spellingShingle Vision-Language Attribute Disentanglement and Reinforcement for Lifelong Person Re-Identification
Xu, Kunlun
Cheng, Haotong
Li, Jiangmeng
Zou, Xu
Zhou, Jiahuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Lifelong person re-identification (LReID) aims to learn from varying domains to obtain a unified person retrieval model. Existing LReID approaches typically focus on learning from scratch or a visual classification-pretrained model, while the Vision-Language Model (VLM) has shown generalizable knowledge in a variety of tasks. Although existing methods can be directly adapted to the VLM, since they only consider global-aware learning, the fine-grained attribute knowledge is underleveraged, leading to limited acquisition and anti-forgetting capacity. To address this problem, we introduce a novel VLM-driven LReID approach named Vision-Language Attribute Disentanglement and Reinforcement (VLADR). Our key idea is to explicitly model the universally shared human attributes to improve inter-domain knowledge transfer, thereby effectively utilizing historical knowledge to reinforce new knowledge learning and alleviate forgetting. Specifically, VLADR includes a Multi-grain Text Attribute Disentanglement mechanism that mines the global and diverse local text attributes of an image. Then, an Inter-domain Cross-modal Attribute Reinforcement scheme is developed, which introduces cross-modal attribute alignment to guide visual attribute extraction and adopts inter-domain attribute alignment to achieve fine-grained knowledge transfer. Experimental results demonstrate that our VLADR outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by 1.9\%-2.2\% and 2.1\%-2.5\% on anti-forgetting and generalization capacity. Our source code is available at https://github.com/zhoujiahuan1991/CVPR2026-VLADR
title Vision-Language Attribute Disentanglement and Reinforcement for Lifelong Person Re-Identification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19678