# Viewpoint-aware Progressive Clustering for Unsupervised Vehicle Re-identification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09099 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.09099/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 18 Nov 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [A Comprehensive Survey on Deep-Learning-based Vehicle Re-Identification: Models, Data Sets and Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.10643/) (2024)
- [Dual Cluster Contrastive learning for Object Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.04662/) (2021)
- [ConMAE: Contour Guided MAE for Unsupervised Vehicle Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.05673/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Vehicle re-identification (Re-ID) is an active task due to its importance in large-scale intelligent monitoring in smart cities. Despite the rapid progress in recent years, most existing methods handle vehicle Re-ID task in a supervised manner, which is both time and labor-consuming and limits their application to real-life scenarios. Recently, unsupervised person Re-ID methods achieve impressive performance by exploring domain adaption or clustering-based techniques. However, one cannot directly generalize these methods to vehicle Re-ID since vehicle images present huge appearance variations in different viewpoints. To handle this problem, we propose a novel viewpoint-aware clustering algorithm for unsupervised vehicle Re-ID. In particular, we first divide the entire feature space into different subspaces according to the predicted viewpoints and then perform a progressive clustering to mine the accurate relationship among samples. Comprehensive experiments against the state-of-the-art methods on two multi-viewpoint benchmark datasets VeRi and VeRi-Wild validate the promising performance of the proposed method in both with and without domain adaption scenarios while handling unsupervised vehicle Re-ID.