Attributes-Assisted Joint Contrastive Learning for Person Re-Identification

Person reidentification (Re-ID) is a crucial technology for intelligent security in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Recently, unsupervised learning has been widely used for person Re-ID due to its generalization property. However, the effectiveness of commonly used unsupervised clustering methods heavily relies on the quality of the clustered pseudo-labels. Moreover, pedestrian shots in real scenes are prone to factors, such as occlusion. In this article, we propose a novel global and local joint contrastive learning (GLCL) framework based on the memory bank. Specifically, we establish separate memory banks for global and local features, which are updated using global simple samples and local hard samples. The GLCL module helps excavate information from simple and hard samples, aiming to overcome the effects of poor retrieval scenarios, such as background clutter and occlusion. Additionally, we design an attributes-assisted clustering (AAC) module that utilizes pedestrian attributes to refine the clustering results. The AAC module can effectively reduce the impact of pseudo-label noise owing to the supplementary information offered by attributes. Our approach shows improved performance in person Re-ID tasks in complex scenarios, providing a promising solution for intelligent security systems in the IoT. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method.