Modality Synergy Complement Learning with Cascaded Aggregation for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification

Yiyuan Zhang, Sanyuan Zhao, Yuhao Kang, Jianbing Shen ;

"Visible-Infrared Re-Identification (VI-ReID) is challenging in image retrievals. The modality discrepancy will easily make huge intra-class variations. Most existing methods either bridge different modalities through modality-invariance or generate the intermediate modality for better performance. Differently, this paper proposes a novel framework, named Modality Synergy Complement Learning Network (MSCLNet) with Cascaded Aggregation. Its basic idea is to synergize two modalities to construct diverse representations of identity-discriminative semantics and less noise. Then, we complement synergistic representations under the advantages of the two modalities. Furthermore, we propose the Cascaded Aggregation strategy for fine-grained optimization of the feature distribution, which progressively aggregates feature embeddings from the subclass, intra-class, and inter-class. Extensive experiments on SYSU-MM01 and RegDB datasets show that MSCLNet outperforms the state-of-the-art by a large margin. On the large-scale SYSU-MM01 dataset, our model can achieve 76.99% and 71.64% in terms of Rank-1 accuracy and mAP value. Our code will be available at https://github.com/bitreidgroup/VI-ReID-MSCLNet"