Person re-identification using vision transformer and centroid triplet loss

In the current digital era, video surveillance has become a part of daily life. The person re-identification(re-ID) task involves choosing a person as a target in one camera feed and recognizing that target in footage from a different camera or the same camera at various points in time. The goal is to accurately identify a person despite variations in their appearance due to changes in pose, illumination, and occlusions. Person re-ID is a key component in video surveillance with practical applications in public safety, retail, and transportation, among others. However, it remains a difficult problem due to the inherent variability in appearance and the lack of robust features to capture the subtle differences between individuals. Even the existing Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) based approaches for person re-ID task struggle to address the issues due to variations in pose, occlusions, and background clutter. To tackle these issues in person re-ID task, we propose an approach using Vision Transformers (ViT) with Centroid Triplet Loss (CTL). Experimental studies conducted on Market1501 and DukeMTMC datasets, yielded better results than the existing approaches, indicating the effectiveness of our approach.