Person Re-identification Using Spatial Covariance Regions of Human Body Parts

  • Authors:
  • S?awomir B?k;Etienne Corvee;Francois Bremond;Monique Thonnat

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AVSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In many surveillance systems there is a requirement todetermine whether a given person of interest has alreadybeen observed over a network of cameras. This is the personre-identification problem. The human appearance obtainedin one camera is usually different from the ones obtained inanother camera. In order to re-identify people the humansignature should handle difference in illumination, pose andcamera parameters. We propose a new appearance modelbased on spatial covariance regions extracted from humanbody parts. The new spatial pyramid scheme is applied tocapture the correlation between human body parts in orderto obtain a discriminative human signature. The humanbody parts are automatically detected using Histograms ofOriented Gradients (HOG). The method is evaluated usingbenchmark video sequences from i-LIDS Multiple-CameraTracking Scenario data set. The re-identification performanceis presented using the cumulative matching characteristic(CMC) curve. Finally, we show that the proposedapproach outperforms state of the art methods.