Ranking Aggregation with Interactive Feedback for Collaborative Person Re-identification
Ji Huang (Wuhan University), Chao Liang (Wuhan University),* Yue Zhang (Wuhan University), Zhongyuan Wang (Wuhan University), Chunjie Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University)
The 33rd British Machine Vision Conference
Abstract
Person re-identification (re-ID) aims to retrieve the same person from a group of networking cameras. Ranking aggregation (RA), a method to aggregates multiple ranking results, can further improve the retrieval accuracy in re-ID tasks. Existing RA work can be generally divided into unsupervised methods and fully-supervised methods. Unsupervised methods lack external supervision, can hardly achieve the optimal results. In contrast, fully-supervised methods need massive labeling data for training, which is prohibitively expensive in the practical application. This paper studies interactive RA (IRA) to address the above challenges in existing RA research. The core idea is to utilize a small amount of supervisory information, obtained from users' relevance feedback, to supervise RA method to produce better re-ranking results. Compared with unsupervised methods, IRA introduces supervisory information and thus has better aggregation accuracy. Compared with fully-supervision methods, the supervisory information of IRA is more readily available, and can be targeted to specific queries. Particularly, we propose two IRA implementations, based on ranking positions and scores respectively, to adapt to diverse application scenarios, where rankers only give rankings, or rankers give similarity scores. Experiments on three public re-ID datasets have shown that IRA significantly outperforms the-state-of-art unsupervised baselines, and achieves similar accuracy with less labeling cost than the fully-supervised RA method.Video
Citation
@inproceedings{Huang_2022_BMVC,
author = {Ji Huang and Chao Liang and Yue Zhang and Zhongyuan Wang and Chunjie Zhang},
title = {Ranking Aggregation with Interactive Feedback for Collaborative Person Re-identification},
booktitle = {33rd British Machine Vision Conference 2022, {BMVC} 2022, London, UK, November 21-24, 2022},
publisher = {{BMVA} Press},
year = {2022},
url = {https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0386.pdf}
}
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