# Fairest of Them All: Establishing a Strong Baseline for Cross-Domain Person ReID

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12016 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.12016/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 28 Jul 2019.

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

- [Rank Flow Embedding for Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Manifold Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.12448/) (2023)
- [Person Re-ID through Unsupervised Hypergraph Rank Selection and Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.14321/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Person re-identification (ReID) remains a very difficult challenge in computer vision, and critical for large-scale video surveillance scenarios where an individual could appear in different camera views at different times. There has been recent interest in tackling this challenge using cross-domain approaches, which leverages data from source domains that are different than the target domain. Such approaches are more practical for real-world widespread deployment given that they don't require on-site training (as with unsupervised or domain transfer approaches) or on-site manual annotation and training (as with supervised approaches). In this study, we take a systematic approach to establishing a large baseline source domain and target domain for cross-domain person ReID. We accomplish this by conducting a comprehensive analysis to study the similarities between source domains proposed in literature, and studying the effects of incrementally increasing the size of the source domain. This allows us to establish a balanced source domain and target domain split that promotes variety in both source and target domains. Furthermore, using lessons learned from the state-of-the-art supervised person re-identification methods, we establish a strong baseline method for cross-domain person ReID. Experiments show that a source domain composed of two of the largest person ReID domains (SYSU and MSMT) performs well across six commonly-used target domains. Furthermore, we show that, surprisingly, two of the recent commonly-used domains (PRID and GRID) have too few query images to provide meaningful insights. As such, based on our findings, we propose the following balanced baseline for cross-domain person ReID consisting of: i) a fixed multi-source domain consisting of SYSU, MSMT, Airport and 3DPeS, and ii) a multi-target domain consisting of Market-1501, DukeMTMC-reID, CUHK03, PRID, GRID and VIPeR.