Abstract
Deploying a person re-identification (Re-ID) system in a real scenario requires adapting a model trained on one labeled dataset to a different environment, with no person identity information. This poses an evident challenge that can be faced by unsupervised domain adaptation approaches. Recent state-of-the-art methods adopt architectures composed of multiple models (a.k.a. experts), and transfer the learned knowledge from the source domain by clustering and assigning hard pseudo-labels to unlabeled target data. While this approach achieves outstanding accuracy, the clustering procedure is typically sub-optimal, and the experts are simply combined to learn in a collaborative way, thus limiting the final performance. In order to mitigate the effects of noisy pseudo-labels and better exploit experts’ knowledge, we propose to combine soft supervision techniques in a novel multi-expert domain adaptation framework. We introduce a novel weighting mechanism for soft supervisory learning, named Online Batch Confidence, which takes into account expert reliability in an online per-batch basis. We conduct experiments across popular cross-domain Re-ID benchmarks proving that our model outperforms the current state-of-the-art results.
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Zunino, A., Murray, C., Blythman, R., Murino, V. (2023). Which Expert Knows Best? Modulating Soft Learning with Online Batch Confidence for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification. In: Karlinsky, L., Michaeli, T., Nishino, K. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2022 Workshops. ECCV 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13805. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25072-9_40
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