Feature generation based on relation learning and image partition for occluded person re-identification

In order to solve the challenging tasks of person re-identification(Re-ID) in occluded scenarios, we propose a novel approach which divides local units by forming high-level semantic information of pedestrians and generates features of occluded parts. The approach uses CNN and pose estimation to extract the feature map and key points, and a graph convolutional network to learn the relation of key points. Specifically, we design a Generating Local Part (GLP) module to divide the feature map into different units. Based on different occluded conditions, the partition mode of GLP has high flexibility and variability. The features of the non-occluded parts are clustered into an intermediate node, and then the spatially correlated features of the occluded parts are generated according to the de-clustering operation. We conduct experiments on both the occluded and the holistic datasets to demonstrate its effectiveness.