# Adversarial Binary Coding for Efficient Person Re-identification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10914 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.10914/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 29 Mar 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [HashReID: Dynamic Network with Binary Codes for Efficient Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.11900/) (2023)
- [Rapid Person Re-Identification via Sub-space Consistency Regularization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.05933/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Person re-identification (ReID) aims at matching persons across different views/scenes. In addition to accuracy, the matching efficiency has received more and more attention because of demanding applications using large-scale data. Several binary coding based methods have been proposed for efficient ReID, which either learn projections to map high-dimensional features to compact binary codes, or directly adopt deep neural networks by simply inserting an additional fully-connected layer with tanh-like activations. However, the former approach requires time-consuming hand-crafted feature extraction and complicated (discrete) optimizations; the latter lacks the necessary discriminative information greatly due to the straightforward activation functions. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective framework for efficient ReID inspired by the recent advances in adversarial learning. Specifically, instead of learning explicit projections or adding fully-connected mapping layers, the proposed Adversarial Binary Coding (ABC) framework guides the extraction of binary codes implicitly and effectively. The discriminability of the extracted codes is further enhanced by equipping the ABC with a deep triplet network for the ReID task. More importantly, the ABC and triplet network are simultaneously optimized in an end-to-end manner. Extensive experiments on three large-scale ReID benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our approach over the state-of-the-art methods.