Part-based Multi-stream Model for Vehicle Searching
This addresses vehicle retrieval for public security and intelligent transportation, but it is incremental as it builds on existing deep learning approaches.
The paper tackled vehicle search by segmenting images into discriminative parts to reduce background noise, achieving improved performance on the VehicleID dataset compared to baseline methods.
Due to the enormous requirement in public security and intelligent transportation system, searching an identical vehicle has become more and more important. Current studies usually treat vehicle as an integral object and then train a distance metric to measure the similarity among vehicles. However, these raw images may be exactly similar to ones with different identification and include some pixels in background that may disturb the distance metric learning. In this paper, we propose a novel and useful method to segment an original vehicle image into several discriminative foreground parts, and these parts consist of some fine grained regions that are named discriminative patches. After that, these parts combined with the raw image are fed into the proposed deep learning network. We can easily measure the similarity of two vehicle images by computing the Euclidean distance of the features from FC layer. Two main contributions of this paper are as follows. Firstly, a method is proposed to estimate if a patch in a raw vehicle image is discriminative or not. Secondly, a new Part-based Multi-Stream Model (PMSM) is designed and optimized for vehicle retrieval and re-identification tasks. We evaluate the proposed method on the VehicleID dataset, and the experimental results show that our method can outperform the baseline.