Enhancing Person Re-Identification Based on Recurrent Feature Aggregation Network

This paper proposes a method for video-based person re-identification. Motivated by the capacity of Recurrent Feature Aggregation Network (RFA-Net) that allows to aggregate the image-level features over time-steps and to yield a sequence level feature. Our work improves the person re- identification performance by (1) proposing to use Gaussian of Gaussian (GOG) - a more powerful feature at image level instead of LBP-Color as in the original work and (2) applying metric learning techniques for person matching. To analyze the role of image feature and metric learning, we have performed extensive experiments on two public benchmark datasets including PRID 2011 and iLIDS- VID. The proposed solution obtains impressive results on the PRID 2011 dataset. The matching rate at rank 1 is increased by 16.8% compared to that of original method. For the iLID-SVID dataset, the matching rate at rank 1 of proposed method is increased 1.1% whereas these values at the latter ranks are higher than those of the original method by approximately 4%. In additional, the mean and standard deviation of the rank where the correct matching is found of the proposed method on the PRID 2011 and the iLIDS-VID are 2.32, 4.33 and 4.61, 7.67 while those of the original work are 3.50, 5.42 and 8.03, 17.52, respectively. These obtained results emphasize the robustness of the proposed method compared to the original one.