AG-VPReID: A Challenging Large-Scale Benchmark for Aerial-Ground Video-based Person Re-Identification
This addresses the challenge of robust person re-identification in real-world cross-platform settings with significant viewpoint and scale variations, though it is incremental as it builds on existing video-based ReID methods.
The authors tackled the problem of person re-identification across aerial and ground video platforms by introducing a new large-scale dataset with 6,632 subjects and over 9.6 million frames, and proposed AG-VPReID-Net, an end-to-end framework that outperforms state-of-the-art methods on this and existing benchmarks.
We introduce AG-VPReID, a new large-scale dataset for aerial-ground video-based person re-identification (ReID) that comprises 6,632 subjects, 32,321 tracklets and over 9.6 million frames captured by drones (altitudes ranging from 15-120m), CCTV, and wearable cameras. This dataset offers a real-world benchmark for evaluating the robustness to significant viewpoint changes, scale variations, and resolution differences in cross-platform aerial-ground settings. In addition, to address these challenges, we propose AG-VPReID-Net, an end-to-end framework composed of three complementary streams: (1) an Adapted Temporal-Spatial Stream addressing motion pattern inconsistencies and facilitating temporal feature learning, (2) a Normalized Appearance Stream leveraging physics-informed techniques to tackle resolution and appearance changes, and (3) a Multi-Scale Attention Stream handling scale variations across drone altitudes. We integrate visual-semantic cues from all streams to form a robust, viewpoint-invariant whole-body representation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AG-VPReID-Net outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on both our new dataset and existing video-based ReID benchmarks, showcasing its effectiveness and generalizability. Nevertheless, the performance gap observed on AG-VPReID across all methods underscores the dataset's challenging nature. The dataset, code and trained models are available at https://github.com/agvpreid25/AG-VPReID-Net.