The person re-identification (re-ID) community has witnessed an explosion in the scale of data that it has to handle. On one hand, it is important for large-scale re-ID to provide constant or sublinear search time and dramatically reduce the storage cost for data points from the viewpoint of efficiency. On the other hand, the semantic affinity existing in the original space should be preserved because it greatly boosts the accuracy of re-ID. To this end, we use the deep hashing method, which utilizes the pairwise similarity and classification label to learn deep hash mapping functions, in order to provide discriminative representations. More importantly, considering the great advantage of asymmetric hashing over the existing symmetric one, we finally propose an asymmetric deep hashing (ADH) method for large-scale re-ID. Specifically, a two-stream asymmetric convolutional neural network is constructed to learn the similarity between image pairs. Another asymmetric pairwise loss is formulated to capture the similarity between the binary hashing codes and real-value representations derived from the deep hash mapping functions, so as to constrain the binary hash codes in the Hamming space to preserve the semantic structure existing in the original space. Then, the image labels are further explored to have a direct impact on the hash function learning through a classification loss. Furthermore, an efficient alternating algorithm is elaborately designed to jointly optimize the asymmetric deep hash functions and high-quality binary codes, by optimizing one parameter with the other parameters fixed. Experiments on the four benchmarks, i.e., DukeMTMC-reID, Market-1501, Market-1501+500k, and CUHK03 substantiate the competitive accuracy and superior efficiency of the proposed ADH over the compared state-of-the-art methods for large-scale re-ID.

Person re-IDentification (re-ID) is an important research topic in the computer vision community, with significance for a range of applications. Pedestrians are well-structured objects that can be partitioned, although detection errors cause slightly misaligned bounding boxes, which lead to mismatches. In this paper, we study the person re-identification performance of using variously designed pedestrian parts instead of the horizontal partitioning routine typically applied in previous hand-crafted part works, and thereby obtain more effective feature descriptors. Specifically, we benchmark the accuracy of individual part matching with discriminatively trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) descriptors on the Market-1501 dataset. We also investigate the complementarity among different parts using combination and ablation studies, and provide novel insights into this issue. Compared with the state-of-the-art, our method yields a competitive accuracy rate when the best part combination is used on two large-scale datasets (Market-1501 and CUHK03) and one small-scale dataset (VIPeR).

Gender classification is an important task in automated face analysis. Most existing approaches for gender classification use only raw/aligned face images after face detection as input. These methods exhibit fair classification ability under constrained conditions, in which face images are acquired under similar illumination with similar poses. The performances of these methods may deteriorate when face images show drastic variances in poses and occlusion as routinely encountered in real-world data. The reduction in the performances of current gender classification methods may be attributed to the sensitiveness of features to image translations. This work proposes to alleviate this sensitivity by introducing a majority voting procedure that involves multiple face patches. Specifically, this work utilizes a deep learning method based on multiple large patches. Several Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are trained on individual, predefined patches that reflect various image resolutions and partial cropping. The decisions of each CNN are aggregated through majority voting to obtain the final gender classification accurately. Extensive experiments are conducted on four gender classification databases, including Labeled Face in-the-Wild (LFW), CelebA, ColorFeret, and All-Age Faces database, a novel database collected by our group. Each individual patch is evaluated, and complementary patches are selected for voting. We show that the classification accuracy of our method is comparable with that of state-of-the-art systems. This characteristic validates the effectiveness of our proposed method.