Progressive Sub-Domain Information Mining for Single-Source Generalizable Gait Recognition

Publisher:
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023, 18, pp. 4787-4799
Issue Date:
2023-01-01
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Recent years have witnessed the deployment of fully supervised gait recognition. However, due to domain diversity, gait recognition models designed under the fully supervised condition suffer from poor generalization in unseen domains. How to improve the generalization ability of gait recognition models and enhance their performance on unseen domains is unexplored in existing gait recognition approaches. This paper investigates the generalizable gait recognition problem and proposes a Progressive Sub-domain Information Mining (PSIM) framework for single-source generalizable gait recognition. During training, the PSIM can mine sub-domain information from a single large-scale source domain by differentiating gait features extracted from different people through unsupervised clustering. Then, domain information mitigation loss and domain homogenization loss are introduced to regularize those gait features to be domain-insensitive. The above procedures are conducted iteratively until the model converges. The PSIM framework is model-agnostic, which can directly improve the generalization ability of state-of-the-art gait recognition models without significantly increasing the complexity of the model. In experiments, our model-agnostic PSIM framework is adopted on several gait recognition models to show its effectiveness in boosting gait recognition performance for the single-source generalizable gait recognition task.
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