Deep Multi-Metric Learning for Person Re-Identification

In this paper, to exploit more discriminative information of the global-body and body-parts features, we present a novel deep multi-metric learning (DMML) network for person re-identification under the triplet framework. The main novelty of our learning framework lies in two aspects: 1) Unlike most existing metric learning-based approaches, which learn only one distance metric for comparison, our DMM-L method aims to learn different metrics for the global-body and body-parts features respectively by using convolutional neural network (CNN); 2) A new multi-metric loss function is proposed to train the DMML network, under which the distance of each negative pair is greater than that of each positive pair by a predefined margin, and the correlations of different metrics are maximized. Compared with the previous person re-identification methods that have shown state-of-the-art performances, our DMML approach can achieve competitive results on the challenging CUHK03, CUHKOl, VIPeR and iLIDS datasets.