Pedestrian Re-ID based on feature consistency and contrast enhancement

Abstract

For robust person re-identification(Re-ID), the key is effectively learning the features of body parts and their long-distance dependence. ResNet and Transformer are respectively good at learning local dependence and long-distance dependence between region features due to their respective special structures. In order to fully integrate the advantages of the two models, we propose a novel person Re-ID framework that effectively incorporates pixel-level region features, posture-level relation features and the long-distance dependence of region features. Specifically, we design a Semantic Correction Module (SCM) that corrects pixel-level region features and posture-level relation features in a masked manner to generate discriminative fine-grained features with high pose semantics. Considering the semantic inconsistency between relation features and region features, we propose a Contrastive Association Module (CAM) to interactively enhances the long-distance correlation and local saliency of features in a self-attention way. Finally, to improve the robustness of local and global features, we construct a CAM layer to enhance the representation of features based on their potential relationships. Extensive experiment results on general and occlusion datasets demonstrate that our approach performs favorably against the state-of-the-art methods, e.g. 96% Rank-1 on Market-1501.