# High-Order Structure Based Middle-Feature Learning for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07853 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.07853/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 25 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Dec 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [In Defense of the Triplet Loss for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.07737/) (2017)
- [Mobile-Former: Bridging MobileNet and Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.05895/) (2021)
- [RGB-Infrared Cross-Modality Person Re-Identification via Joint Pixel and Feature Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.05839/) (2019)
- [Cross-modality Person re-identification with Shared-Specific Feature Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.12489/) (2020)
- [Cross-Modality Paired-Images Generation for RGB-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.04114/) (2020)
- [Graph Attention Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.11204/) (2020)
- [Cloth-Changing Person Re-identification from A Single Image with Gait Prediction and Regularization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.15537/) (2021)
- [Learning by Aligning: Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification using Cross-Modal Correspondences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.07422/) (2021)
- [Learning Progressive Modality-shared Transformers for Effective Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.00226/) (2022)
- [ParC-Net: Position Aware Circular Convolution with Merits from ConvNets and Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.03952/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [ReID5o: Achieving Omni Multi-modal Person Re-identification in a Single Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.09385/) (2025)
- [Reliable Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification via Modality-Aware Graph Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.14847/) (2025)
- [Diverse Semantics-Guided Feature Alignment and Decoupling for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.00619/) (2025)
- [Weakly Supervised Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification via Heterogeneous Expert Collaborative Consistency Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.12942/) (2025)
- [BIT: Matching-based Bi-directional Interaction Transformation Network for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.14243/) (2026)
- [Prototype-Driven Multi-Feature Generation for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.05642/) (2024)
- [CLIP4VI-ReID: Learning Modality-shared Representations via CLIP Semantic Bridge for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.10309/) (2025)
- [CityGuard: Graph-Aware Private Descriptors for Bias-Resilient Identity Search Across Urban Cameras](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.18047/) (2026)
- [CMCC-ReID: Cross-Modality Clothing-Change Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.02808/) (2026)
- [Hierarchical Identity Learning for Unsupervised Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.11587/) (2025)
- [Identity Clue Refinement and Enhancement for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.04522/) (2025)
- [Learning Language-Driven Sequence-Level Modal-Invariant Representations for Video-Based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.12062/) (2026)
- [Structural-Semantic Reciprocal Learning for Unsupervised Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.15220/) (2026)
- [Dual-Edged Homogeneous-Modality Similarity: Towards Visible-Infrared Modality-Incomplete Person Re-Identification with Modality Adaptive Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.18688/) (2026)
- [Dual-Space Modality Consistency Learning for Universal Cross-Modal Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.06943/) (2026)
- [Multi-scale Decomposed Convolution Refinement Network for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.16015/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) aims to retrieve images of the same persons captured by visible (VIS) and infrared (IR) cameras. Existing VI-ReID methods ignore high-order structure information of features while being relatively difficult to learn a reasonable common feature space due to the large modality discrepancy between VIS and IR images. To address the above problems, we propose a novel high-order structure based middle-feature learning network (HOS-Net) for effective VI-ReID. Specifically, we first leverage a short- and long-range feature extraction (SLE) module to effectively exploit both short-range and long-range features. Then, we propose a high-order structure learning (HSL) module to successfully model the high-order relationship across different local features of each person image based on a whitened hypergraph network.This greatly alleviates model collapse and enhances feature representations. Finally, we develop a common feature space learning (CFL) module to learn a discriminative and reasonable common feature space based on middle features generated by aligning features from different modalities and ranges. In particular, a modality-range identity-center contrastive (MRIC) loss is proposed to reduce the distances between the VIS, IR, and middle features, smoothing the training process. Extensive experiments on the SYSU-MM01, RegDB, and LLCM datasets show that our HOS-Net achieves superior state-of-the-art performance. Our code is available at urlhttps://github.com/Jaulaucoeng/HOS-Net.