Learning an appearance model for person re-identification from multiple images is challenging due to the corrupted images caused by occlusion or false detection. Furthermore, different persons may wear similar clothes, making appearance feature less discriminative. In this paper, we first introduce the concept of multiple instance to handle corrupted images. Then a novel pairwise comparison based multiple instance learning framework is proposed to deal with visual ambiguity, by selecting robust features through pairwise comparison. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on two public datasets.

This work presents a real-time human detection system for VGA (Video Graphics Array, 640480) video, which well suits visual surveillance applications. To achieve high running speed and accuracy, firstly we design multiple fast scalar feature types on the gradient channels, and experimentally identify that NOGCF (Normalized Oriented Gradient Channel Feature) has better performance with Gentle AdaBoost in cascaded classifiers. A confidence measure for cascaded classifiers is developed and utilized in the subsequent tracking stage. Secondly, we propose to use speedup techniques including a detector pyramid for multi-scale detection and channel compression for integral channel calculation respectively. Thirdly, by integrating the detector's discrete detected humans and continuous detection confidence map, we employ a two-layer tracking by detection algorithm for further speedup and accuracy improvement. Compared with other methods, experiments show the system is significantly faster with 20 fps running speed in VGA video and has better accuracy as well.

This paper proposes a high-accuracy sub-pixel registration framework based on phase correlation for noisy images. First we introduce a denoising module, where the edge-preserving filter is adopted. This strategy not only filters off the noise but also preserves most of the original image signal. A confidence-weighted optimization module is then proposed to fit the linear phase plane discriminately and to achieve sub-pixel shifts. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the combination of our modules and improvements of the accuracy and robustness against noise compared to other sub-pixel phase correlation methods in the Fourier domain.

Boosting over weak classifiers is widely used in pedestrian detection. As the number of weak classifiers is large, researchers always use a sampling method over weak classifiers before training. The sampling makes the boosting process harder to reach the fixed target. In this paper, we propose a partial derivative guidance for weak classifier mining method which can be used in conjunction with a boosting algorithm. Using weak classifier mining method makes the sampling less degraded in the performance. It has the same effect as testing more weak classifiers while using acceptable time. Experiments demonstrate that our algorithm can process quicker than [1] algorithm in both training and testing, without any performance decrease. The proposed algorithms is easily extending to any other boosting algorithms using a window-scanning style and HOG-like features.

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.