# ProFD: Prompt-Guided Feature Disentangling for Occluded Person Re-Identification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20081 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.20081/

## Key facts

- Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 11 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.01134/) (2021)
- [Learning Discriminative Features with Multiple Granularities for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.01438/) (2018)
- [CLIP-ReID: Exploiting Vision-Language Model for Image Re-Identification without Concrete Text Labels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.13977/) (2022)
- [Pose-guided Feature Disentangling for Occluded Person Re-identification Based on Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.02466/) (2021)
- [Dynamic Prototype Mask for Occluded Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.09046/) (2022)
- [Region Generation and Assessment Network for Occluded Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.03558/) (2023)
- [Pose-Guided Feature Learning with Knowledge Distillation for Occluded Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.00139/) (2021)
- [Attention Disturbance and Dual-Path Constraint Network for Occluded Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.10976/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [DIFFER: Disentangling Identity Features via Semantic Cues for Clothes-Changing Person Re-ID](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.22912/) (2025)
- [ICPL-ReID: Identity-Conditional Prompt Learning for Multi-Spectral Object Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.17821/) (2025)
- [DMPT: Decoupled Modality-aware Prompt Tuning for Multi-modal Object Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.10985/) (2025)
- [Attribute Guidance With Inherent Pseudo-label For Occluded Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.04998/) (2025)
- [From Global to Local: Rethinking CLIP Feature Aggregation for Person Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.22190/) (2026)
- [Reliability-Aware 3D Geometric Injection for Universal Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.18863/) (2026)
- [Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification with Prompt-S6 and Semantic-Aware Knowledge Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.23451/) (2026)
- [Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification with Dual Semantic Guidance and Global-Local Mutual Modulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.29207/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

To address the occlusion issues in person Re-Identification (ReID) tasks, many methods have been proposed to extract part features by introducing external spatial information. However, due to missing part appearance information caused by occlusion and noisy spatial information from external model, these purely vision-based approaches fail to correctly learn the features of human body parts from limited training data and struggle in accurately locating body parts, ultimately leading to misaligned part features. To tackle these challenges, we propose a Prompt-guided Feature Disentangling method (ProFD), which leverages the rich pre-trained knowledge in the textual modality facilitate model to generate well-aligned part features. ProFD first designs part-specific prompts and utilizes noisy segmentation mask to preliminarily align visual and textual embedding, enabling the textual prompts to have spatial awareness. Furthermore, to alleviate the noise from external masks, ProFD adopts a hybrid-attention decoder, ensuring spatial and semantic consistency during the decoding process to minimize noise impact. Additionally, to avoid catastrophic forgetting, we employ a self-distillation strategy, retaining pre-trained knowledge of CLIP to mitigate over-fitting. Evaluation results on the Market1501, DukeMTMC-ReID, Occluded-Duke, Occluded-ReID, and P-DukeMTMC datasets demonstrate that ProFD achieves state-of-the-art results. Our project is available at: https://github.com/Cuixxx/ProFD.