Consistency-aware unsupervised label learning for cross-domain person re-identification

Un-refined pseudo labels always disturb the cross-domain Re-ID performance in unsupervised clustering methods. In this paper, we propose a consistency-aware unsupervised label learning network to refine noisy labels for promising domain adaptation. Specifically, we use a hetero-generated label consistency constraint to mine possible label information, keep a reference consistency of the target pairs on the relative comparative characteristics. We then use a cross-granularity attention consistency constraint to refine the pseudo labels meanwhile learning multi-granularity discriminative representation, keeping a self-similarity consistency of the corresponding parts on the discriminative regions. Our model is fine-tuned by the refined pseudo-labels to reduce the domain gap while coping with the intra-domain variation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve superior performance on several benchmark datasets.