# Robust Knowledge Adaptation for Federated Unsupervised Person ReID

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07320 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.07320/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 38 of its 57 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 Jan 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 38)

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- [Federated Optimization in Heterogeneous Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.06127/) (2018)
- [Model-Contrastive Federated Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.16257/) (2021)
- [Performance Measures and a Data Set for Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.01775/) (2016)
- [FedBN: Federated Learning on Non-IID Features via Local Batch Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.07623/) (2021)
- [Federated Learning with Personalization Layers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.00818/) (2019)
- [Person Transfer GAN to Bridge Domain Gap for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.08565/) (2017)
- [FedMD: Heterogenous Federated Learning via Model Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.03581/) (2019)
- [Think Locally, Act Globally: Federated Learning with Local and Global Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.01523/) (2020)
- [Personalized Federated Learning: A Meta-Learning Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.07948/) (2020)
- [FedDG: Federated Domain Generalization on Medical Image Segmentation via Episodic Learning in Continuous Frequency Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.06030/) (2021)
- [Re-ranking Person Re-identification with k-reciprocal Encoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1701.08398/) (2017)
- [Mutual Mean-Teaching: Pseudo Label Refinery for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.01526/) (2020)
- [Joint Discriminative and Generative Learning for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.07223/) (2019)
- [Self-paced Contrastive Learning with Hybrid Memory for Domain Adaptive Object Re-ID](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.02713/) (2020)
- [Person Re-identification: Past, Present and Future](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.02984/) (2016)
- [Image-Image Domain Adaptation with Preserved Self-Similarity and Domain-Dissimilarity for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.07027/) (2017)
- [Style Normalization and Restitution for Generalizable Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.11037/) (2020)
- [Few-Shot Image Recognition by Predicting Parameters from Activations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03466/) (2017)
- [Learning to Generalize Unseen Domains via Memory-based Multi-Source Meta-Learning for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.00417/) (2020)
- [Unsupervised Person Re-identification via Multi-label Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.09228/) (2020)
- [Cluster Contrast for Unsupervised Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.11568/) (2021)
- [Generalizable Person Re-identification with Relevance-aware Mixture of Experts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.09156/) (2021)
- [Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Re-Identification: Theory and Practice](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.11334/) (2018)
- [Camera-aware Proxies for Unsupervised Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.10674/) (2020)

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

- [Federated Domain Generalization: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.01334/) (2023)
- [FedKLPR: KL-Guided Pruning-Aware Federated Learning for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.17431/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Person Re-identification (ReID) has been extensively studied in recent years due to the increasing demand in public security. However, collecting and dealing with sensitive personal data raises privacy concerns. Therefore, federated learning has been explored for Person ReID, which aims to share minimal sensitive data between different parties (clients). However, existing federated learning based person ReID methods generally rely on laborious and time-consuming data annotations and it is difficult to guarantee cross-domain consistency. Thus, in this work, a federated unsupervised cluster-contrastive (FedUCC) learning method is proposed for Person ReID. FedUCC introduces a three-stage modelling strategy following a coarse-to-fine manner. In detail, generic knowledge, specialized knowledge and patch knowledge are discovered using a deep neural network. This enables the sharing of mutual knowledge among clients while retaining local domain-specific knowledge based on the kinds of network layers and their parameters. Comprehensive experiments on 8 public benchmark datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our proposed method.