Person Re-Identification with a Body Orientation-Specific Convolutional Neural Network

Person re-identification consists in matching images of a particular person captured in a network of cameras with non-overlapping fields of view. The challenges in this task arise from the large variations of human appearance. In particular, the same person could show very different appearances from different points of view. To address this challenge, in this paper we propose an Orientation-Specific Convolutional Neural Network (OSCNN) framework which jointly performs body orientation regression and extracts orientation-specific deep representations for person re-identification. A robust joint embedding is obtained by combining feature representations under different body orientations. We experimentally show on two public benchmarks that taking into account body orientations improves the person re-identification performance. Moreover, our approach outperforms most of the previous state-of-the-art re identification methods on these benchmarks.