Person Search in Videos with One Portrait Through Visual and Temporal Links
CUHK-SenseTime Joint Lab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong1 Tsinghua University2 SenseTime Research3
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2018, Munich, Germany

Abstract

In real-world applications, e.g. law enforcement and video retrieval, one often needs to search a certain person in long videos with just one portrait. This is much more challenging than the conventional settings for person re-identification, as the search may need to be carried out in the environments different from where the portrait was taken. In this paper, we aim to tackle this challenge and propose a novel framework, which takes into account the identity invariance along a tracklet, thus allowing person identities to be propagated via both the visual and the temporal links. We also develop a novel scheme called Progressive Propagation via Competitive Consensus, which significantly improves the reliability of the propagation process. To promote the study of person search, we construct a large-scale benchmark, which contains 127K manually annotated tracklets from 192 movies. Experiments show that our approach remarkably outperforms mainstream person re-id methods, raising the mAP from 42.16% to 62.27%.

Progressive Propagation via Competitive Consensus

Competitive Consensus
Competitive Consensus is a novel scheme for label propagation. Compared to the conventional linear diffusion, it improves the reliability by propagating the most confident information.


Progressive Propagation
Progressive Propagation is a simple but effective scheme to accelerate the propagation process and reduce the effects of noise, which freezes the label of a certain fraction of nodes at each iteration according to their confidence.

Results


Accuracy on CSM
Dataset CSM MARS iLIDS PRID Market PSD PIPA
task search re-id re-id re-id re-id det.+re-id recog.
type video video video video video image image
identities 1,218 1,261 300 200 1,501 8,432 2,356
tracklets 127K 20K 600 400 - - -
instances 11M 1M 44K 40K 32K 96K 63K

Examples of Search Results

Materials

Citation

@inproceedings{huang2018person,
    title={Person Search in Videos with One Portrait Through Visual and Temporal Links},
    author={Huang, Qingqiu and Liu, Wentao and Lin, Dahua},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
    pages={425--441},
    year={2018}
}

Contact

Qingqiu Huang: hq016 [AT] ie.cuhk.edu.hk