# BiCnet-TKS: Learning Efficient Spatial-Temporal Representation for Video Person Re-Identification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14783 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.14783/

## Key facts

- Cited by 44 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 34 of its 54 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Apr 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 34)

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- [BAM: Bottleneck Attention Module](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.06514/) (2018)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we present an efficient spatial-temporal representation for video person re-identification (reID). Firstly, we propose a Bilateral Complementary Network (BiCnet) for spatial complementarity modeling. Specifically, BiCnet contains two branches. Detail Branch processes frames at original resolution to preserve the detailed visual clues, and Context Branch with a down-sampling strategy is employed to capture long-range contexts. On each branch, BiCnet appends multiple parallel and diverse attention modules to discover divergent body parts for consecutive frames, so as to obtain an integral characteristic of target identity. Furthermore, a Temporal Kernel Selection (TKS) block is designed to capture short-term as well as long-term temporal relations by an adaptive mode. TKS can be inserted into BiCnet at any depth to construct BiCnetTKS for spatial-temporal modeling. Experimental results on multiple benchmarks show that BiCnet-TKS outperforms state-of-the-arts with about 50% less computations. The source code is available at https://github.com/ blue-blue272/BiCnet-TKS.
