Robust Fine-Grained Learning for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification

Qingze Yin (), Guodong Ding, Tongpo Zhang and Yumei Gong
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Qingze Yin: School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai Polytechnic University, Shanghai 201209, China
Guodong Ding: School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
Tongpo Zhang: School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai Polytechnic University, Shanghai 201209, China
Yumei Gong: School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai Polytechnic University, Shanghai 201209, China

Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Cloth-changing Person Re-Identification (CC-ReID) poses a significant challenge in tracking pedestrians across cameras while accounting for changes in clothing appearance. Despite recent progress in CC-ReID, existing methods predominantly focus on learning the unique biological features of pedestrians, often overlooking constraints that promote the learning of cloth-agnostic features. Addressing this limitation, we propose a Robust Fine-grained Learning Network (RFLNet) to effectively learn robust cloth-agnostic features by leveraging fine-grained semantic constraints. Specifically, we introduce a four-body-part attention module to enhance the learning of detailed pedestrian semantic features. To further strengthen the model’s robustness to clothing variations, we employ a random erasing algorithm, encouraging the network to concentrate on cloth-irrelevant attributes. Additionally, we design a fine-grained semantic loss to guide the model in learning identity-related, detailed semantic features, thereby improving its focus on cloth-agnostic regions. Comprehensive experiments on widely used CC-ReID benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of RFLNet. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, including a 0.7% increase in mAP on PRCC and a 1.6% improvement in rank-1 accuracy on DeepChange.

Keywords: person re-identification; cloth-changing; fine-grained learning; random erasing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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