A Bottom-Up Clustering Approach to Unsupervised Person Re-Identification

Most person re-identification (re-ID) approaches are based on supervised learning, which requires intensive manual annotation for training data. However, it is not only resourceintensive to acquire identity annotation but also impractical to label the large-scale real-world data. To relieve this problem, we propose a bottom-up clustering (BUC) approach to jointly optimize a convolutional neural network (CNN) and the relationship among the individual samples. Our algorithm considers two fundamental facts in the re-ID task, i.e., diversity across different identities and similarity within the same identity. Specifically, our algorithm starts with regarding individual sample as a different identity, which…

• CS
  Cisco Systems
• DT
  Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centres