Multi Scale-Adaptive Super-Resolution Person Re-Identification Using GAN

Abstract

In real-world surveillance systems, the person images captured by the camera network consists of various low-resolution (LR) images. It creates a resolution mismatching problem when compared against high-resolution images of a targeted person. It significantly affects the performance of person re-Identification. This problem is known as Low-Resolution Person re-identification (LR PREID). An efficient strategy would be to exploit image super-resolution (SR) with person re-identification as a mutual learning approach. In this paper, we propose a novel method MSA-SR-PREID to solve this problem. The model takes low-resolution images on different resolutions and resized them to pre-defined fixed resolution. The design of the super-resolution network consists of ESRGAN and the de-Noising module to generate super-resolution images. The SR images are later passed to the re-identification network to learn the unique descriptors to recognize a person identity. The performance of this model is evaluated on four competitive benchmarks, MLR-VIPeR, MLR-DukeMTMC-reID, VR-MSMT17, and VR-Market1501. The comparison with similar state-of-the-art demonstrates the superiority of our model.

Keywords

• Person re-identification
• low-resolution person re-identification
• super-resolution
• image de-noising