SR-DSFF and FENet-ReID: A Two-Stage Approach for Cross Resolution Person Re-Identification

In real-life scenarios, the accuracy of person re-identification (Re-ID) is subject to the limitation of camera hardware conditions and the change of image resolution caused by factors such as camera focusing errors. People call this problem cross-resolution person Re-ID. In this paper, we improve the recognition accuracy of cross-resolution person Re-ID by enhancing the image enhancement network and feature extraction network. Specifically, we treat cross-resolution person Re-ID as a two-stage task: the first stage is the image enhancement stage, and we propose a Super-Resolution Dual-Stream Feature Fusion sub-network, named SR-DSFF, which contains SR module and DSFF module. The SR-DSFF utilizes the SR module recovers the resolution of the low-resolution (LR) images and then obtains the feature maps of the LR images and super-resolution (SR) images, respectively, through the dual-stream feature fusion with learned weights extracts and fuses feature maps from LR and SR images in the DSFF module. At the end of SR-DSFF, we set a transposed convolution to visualize the feature maps into images. The second stage is the feature acquisition stage. We design a global-local feature extraction network guided by human pose estimation, named FENet-ReID. The FENet-ReID obtains the final features through multistage feature extraction and multiscale feature fusion for the Re-ID task. The two stages complement each other, making the final pedestrian feature representation has the advantage of accurate identification compared with other methods. Experimental results show that our method improves significantly compared with some state-of-the-art methods.