PRID 2011 dataset, that presents many of the
variations occurring in a real world surveillance
scenario, such as changes in human pose,
illumination, background, and even camera
parameters. The evaluation results demonstrate that
deeply learned features provide more robustness
against these challenges than low-level features based
on color and texture.
The conducted tests have proved the remarkable
improvement in the performance due to the use of the
new loss function. This normalized double margin-
based loss function leads the training process to learn
more discriminative features, which reduces the intra-
class variation and highlights the inter-class variation.
Moreover, the proposed new loss function makes the
training process faster, since an acceptable model is
learned in a lower number of iterations, thanks to the
use of two margin parameters.
The obtained results present the normalized
double-margin contrastive loss function as a
potentially useful tool in the learning of appearance
similarity descriptors for multiple applications, as
well as, in the learning of a distance metric to get the
proper weighting of the deep features in the
construction of the optimal discriminative descriptor
for re-identification.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by the Spanish Government
through the CICYT project (TRA2013-48314-C3-1-
R), (TRA2015-63708-R) and Ministerio de
Educación, Cultura y Deporte para la Formación de
Profesorado Universitario (FPU14/02143), and
Comunidad de Madrid through SEGVAUTO-TRIES
(S2013/MIT-2713).
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