PSTR: End-to-End One-Step Person Search With Transformers

Jiale Cao, Yanwei Pang, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Jin Xie, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022, pp. 9458-9467

Abstract


We propose a novel one-step transformer-based person search framework, PSTR, that jointly performs person detection and re-identification (re-id) in a single architecture. PSTR comprises a person search-specialized (PSS) module that contains a detection encoder-decoder for person detection along with a discriminative re-id decoder for person re-id. The discriminative re-id decoder utilizes a multi-level supervision scheme with a shared decoder for discriminative re-id feature learning and also comprises a part attention block to encode relationship between different parts of a person. We further introduce a simple multi-scale scheme to support re-id across person instances at different scales. PSTR jointly achieves the diverse objectives of object-level recognition (detection) and instance-level matching (re-id). To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to propose an end-to-end one-step transformer-based person search framework. Experiments are performed on two popular benchmarks: CUHK-SYSU and PRW. Our extensive ablations reveal the merits of the proposed contributions. Further, the proposed PSTR sets a new state-of-the-art on both benchmarks. On the challenging PRW benchmark, PSTR achieves a mean average precision (mAP) score of 56.5%. The source code is available at https://github.com/JialeCao001/PSTR.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Cao_2022_CVPR, author = {Cao, Jiale and Pang, Yanwei and Anwer, Rao Muhammad and Cholakkal, Hisham and Xie, Jin and Shah, Mubarak and Khan, Fahad Shahbaz}, title = {PSTR: End-to-End One-Step Person Search With Transformers}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2022}, pages = {9458-9467} }