Triplet Permutation Method for Deep Learning of Single-Shot Person Re-Identification

Abstract

Solving Single-Shot Person Re-Identification (Re-Id) by training Deep Convolutional Neural Networks is a daunting challenge, due to the lack of training data, since only two images per person are available. This causes the overfitting of the models, leading to degenerated performance. This paper formulates the Triplet Permutation method to generate multiple training sets, from a certain re-id dataset. This is a novel strategy for feeding triplet networks, which reduces the overfitting of the Single-Shot Re-Id model. The improved performance has been demonstrated over one of the most challenging Re-Id datasets, PRID2011, proving the effectiveness of the method.