Person Re-Identification by Spatial Pyramid Color Representation and Local Region Matching
Chunxiao Liu, Guijin Wang, Xinggang Lin, Liang Li · IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems · 2012
Person re-identification is challenging due to illumination changes and viewpoint variations in the multi-camera environment. In this paper, we propose a novel spatial pyramid color representation (SPCR) and a local region matching scheme, to explore person appearance for re-identification. SPCR effectively integrates color layout into histogram, forming an informative global feature. Local region matching utilizes region statistics, which is described by covariance feature, to find appearance correspondence locally. Our approach shows robustness to illumination changes and slight viewpoint variations. Experiments on a public dataset demonstrate the performance superiority of our proposal over state-of-the-art methods.