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Multiple Expert Brainstorming for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification

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Often the best performing deep neural models are ensembles of multiple base-level networks, nevertheless, ensemble learning with respect to domain adaptive person re-ID remains unexplored. In this paper, we propose a multiple expert brainstorming network (MEB-Net) for domain adaptive person re-ID, opening up a promising direction about model ensemble problem under unsupervised conditions. MEB-Net adopts a mutual learning strategy, where multiple networks with different architectures are pre-trained within a source domain as expert models equipped with specific features and knowledge, while the adaptation is then accomplished through brainstorming (mutual learning) among expert models. MEB-Net accommodates the heterogeneity of experts learned with different architectures and enhances discrimination capability of the adapted re-ID model, by introducing a regularization scheme about authority of experts. Extensive experiments on large-scale datasets (Market-1501 and DukeMTMC-reID) demonstrate the superior performance of MEB-Net over the state-of-the-arts. Code is available at https://github.com/YunpengZhai/MEB-Net.

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This work is partially supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China under grant 2017YFB1002400, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under contract No. 61825101, U1611461 and 61836012.

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Zhai, Y., Ye, Q., Lu, S., Jia, M., Ji, R., Tian, Y. (2020). Multiple Expert Brainstorming for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification. In: Vedaldi, A., Bischof, H., Brox, T., Frahm, JM. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12352. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58571-6_35

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