Revisiting Temporal Modeling for Video-based Person ReID
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Video-based person reID is an important task, which has received much attention in recent years due to the increasing demand in surveillance and camera networks. A typical video-based person reID system consists of three parts: an image-level feature extractor ( e.g. CNN), a temporal modeling method to aggregate temporal features and a loss function. Although many methods on temporal modeling have been proposed, it is still hard for us to find an apple-to-apple comparison among these methods, because the choice of base network architecture and loss function also have a large impact on the final performance. Thus, we comprehensively study and compare four different temporal modeling methods (temporal pooling, temporal attention, RNN and 3D convnets) for video-based person reID. We also propose a new attention generation network which adopts temporal convolution to extract temporal information among frames. The evaluation is done on the MARS dataset, and our methods outperform state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Our source codes are released at https://github.com/jiyanggao/Video-Person-ReID.
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