Multilabel CNN-Based Hybrid Learning Metric for Pedestrian Reidentification

Pedestrian reidentification has recently emerged as a hot topic that attains considerable attention since it can be applied to many potential applications in the surveillance system. However, high-accuracy pedestrian reidentification is a stimulating research problem because of variations in viewpoints, color, light, and other reasons. This work addresses the interferences and improves pedestrian reidentification accuracy by proposing two novel algorithms, pedestrian multilabel learning, and investigating hybrid learning metrics. First, unlike the existing models, we construct the identification framework using two subnetworks, namely, part detection subnetwork and feature extraction subnetwork, to obtain pedestrian attributes and low-level feature scores, respectively. Then, a hybrid learning metric that combines pedestrian attributes and low-level feature scores is proposed. Both low-level features and pedestrian attributes are utilized, thus enhancing the identification rate. Our simulation results on both datasets, i.e., CUHK03 and VIPeR, reveal that the identification rate is improved compared to the existing pedestrian reidentification methods.