From Groups to Co-Traveler Sets: Pair Matching Based Person Re-identification Framework

In video surveillance, group refers to a set of people with similar velocity and close proximity. Group members can provide visual clues for person re-identification. In this paper, we discuss the essentials of group-based person re-identification and relax the group definition towards a concept of "co-traveler set", keeping constraints on velocity differences while loosening the distance constraint. Accordingly we propose a pair matching scheme to measure the distance between co-traveler sets, which tackles the problems caused by dynamic change of group across camera views. The final individual matching score is weighted by the obtained distance measurements between co-traveler sets. A proof of concept shows the rationality of introducing the concept of co-traveler relation into person reid. Experiments were conducted on four different datasets. Our co-traveler set based framework shows promising improvement compared with the group-based methods and the individual-based methods.

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