# Semantic-aware Consistency Network for Cloth-changing Person Re-Identification arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14113 ยท HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.14113/ ## Key facts - Cited by 18 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). - Builds on 31 of its 52 references that are in the map. - First posted on arXiv 27 Aug 2023. ## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 31) - [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015) - [Random Erasing Data Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.04896/) (2017) - [In Defense of the Triplet Loss for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.07737/) (2017) - [Performance Measures and a Data Set for Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.01775/) (2016) - [Network In Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1312.4400/) (2013) - [Deep Learning for Person Re-identification: A Survey and Outlook](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.04193/) (2020) - [Person Transfer GAN to Bridge Domain Gap for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.08565/) (2017) - [Beyond Part Models: Person Retrieval with Refined Part Pooling (and a Strong Convolutional Baseline)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.09349/) (2017) - [TransReID: Transformer-based Object Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.04378/) (2021) - [Bag of Tricks and A Strong Baseline for Deep Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.07071/) (2019) - [Omni-Scale Feature Learning for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.00953/) (2019) - [Learning Discriminative Features with Multiple Granularities for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.01438/) (2018) - [Harmonious Attention Network for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.08122/) (2018) - [Self-Correction for Human Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.09777/) (2019) - [ABD-Net: Attentive but Diverse Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.01114/) (2019) - [Relation-Aware Global Attention for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.02998/) (2019) - [Identity-Guided Human Semantic Parsing for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.13467/) (2020) - [Clothes-Changing Person Re-identification with RGB Modality Only](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06890/) (2022) - [Person Re-identification by Contour Sketch under Moderate Clothing Change](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.02295/) (2020) - [Pose-driven Deep Convolutional Model for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.08325/) (2017) - [Long-Term Cloth-Changing Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.12633/) (2020) - [Dissecting Person Re-identification from the Viewpoint of Viewpoint](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02162/) (2018) - [Interaction-and-Aggregation Network for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.08435/) (2019) - [FD-GAN: Pose-guided Feature Distilling GAN for Robust Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.02936/) (2018) - [Pose-Normalized Image Generation for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.02225/) (2017) - [Cloth-Changing Person Re-identification from A Single Image with Gait Prediction and Regularization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.15537/) (2021) - [When Person Re-identification Meets Changing Clothes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.04070/) (2020) - [Domain Adaptation through Synthesis for Unsupervised Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.10094/) (2018) - [Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Shot Knowledge Distillation for Image-Based Object Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.05197/) (2020) - [Semantic-guided Pixel Sampling for Cloth-Changing Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.11522/) (2021) ## Built on by (most cited first, 18 of 18) - [Transformer for Object Re-Identification: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.06960/) (2024) - [ChatReID: Open-ended Interactive Person Retrieval via Hierarchical Progressive Tuning for Vision Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.19958/) (2025) - [DIFFER: Disentangling Identity Features via Semantic Cues for Clothes-Changing Person Re-ID](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.22912/) (2025) - [DLCR: A Generative Data Expansion Framework via Diffusion for Clothes-Changing Person Re-ID](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.07205/) (2024) - [Activity-Biometrics: Person Identification from Daily Activities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.17360/) (2024) - [Image-Text-Image Knowledge Transfer for Lifelong Person Re-Identification with Hybrid Clothing States](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.16600/) (2024) - [Multiple Information Prompt Learning for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.00330/) (2024) - [Towards Anytime Retrieval: A Benchmark for Anytime Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.16635/) (2025) - [DisenQ: Disentangling Q-Former for Activity-Biometrics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.07262/) (2025) - [Clothes-Changing Person Re-Identification with Feasibility-Aware Intermediary Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.09507/) (2024) - [Features Reconstruction Disentanglement Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.10694/) (2024) - [Rethinking Clothes Changing Person ReID: Conflicts, Synthesis, and Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.12611/) (2024) - [Identity-aware Dual-constraint Network for Cloth-Changing Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.08270/) (2024) - [See What You Seek: Semantic Contextual Integration for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.01345/) (2024) - [Training-free Clothing Region of Interest Self-correction for Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.07126/) (2025) - [MSP-ReID: Hairstyle-Robust Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.01640/) (2026) - [Beyond Visual Cues: Semantic-Driven Token Filtering and Expert Routing for Anytime Person ReID](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.15090/) (2026) - [SCORE: SubDistribution-aware Collaborative Knowledge Reinforcing for Cloth-Hybrid Lifelong Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.12577/) (2026) ## Abstract (arXiv) Cloth-changing Person Re-Identification (CC-ReID) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve the target person across multiple surveillance cameras when clothing changes might happen. Despite recent progress in CC-ReID, existing approaches are still hindered by the interference of clothing variations since they lack effective constraints to keep the model consistently focused on clothing-irrelevant regions. To address this issue, we present a Semantic-aware Consistency Network (SCNet) to learn identity-related semantic features by proposing effective consistency constraints. Specifically, we generate the black-clothing image by erasing pixels in the clothing area, which explicitly mitigates the interference from clothing variations. In addition, to fully exploit the fine-grained identity information, a head-enhanced attention module is introduced, which learns soft attention maps by utilizing the proposed part-based matching loss to highlight head information. We further design a semantic consistency loss to facilitate the learning of high-level identity-related semantic features, forcing the model to focus on semantically consistent cloth-irrelevant regions. By using the consistency constraint, our model does not require any extra auxiliary segmentation module to generate the black-clothing image or locate the head region during the inference stage. Extensive experiments on four cloth-changing person Re-ID datasets (LTCC, PRCC, Vc-Clothes, and DeepChange) demonstrate that our proposed SCNet makes significant improvements over prior state-of-the-art approaches. Our code is available at: https://github.com/Gpn-star/SCNet.