Multi-Scale Triplet CNN for Person Re-Identification

Person re-identification aims at identifying a certain person across non-overlapping multi-camera networks. It is a fundamental and challenging task in automated video surveillance. Most existing researches mainly rely on hand-crafted features, resulting in unsatisfactory performance. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale triplet convolutional neural network which captures visual appearance of a person at various scales. We propose to optimize the network parameters by a comparative similarity loss on massive sample triplets, addressing the problem of small training set in person re-identification. In particular, we design a unified multi-scale network architecture consisting of both deep and shallow neural networks, towards learning robust and effective features for person re-identification under complex conditions. Extensive evaluation on the real-world Market-1501 dataset have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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