Bayesian Personalized-Wardrobe Model (BP-WM) for Long-Term Person Re-Identification

Long-term surveillance applications often involve having to re-identify individuals over several days. The task is made even more challenging due to changes in appearance features such as clothing over a longitudinal time-span of days or longer. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called Bayesian Personalized-Wardrobe Model (BPWM) for long-term person re-identification (re-ID) by employing a Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) for clothing features extracted from video sequences. In contrast to previous long-term person re-ID works, we exploit the fact that people typically choose their attire based on their personal preferences and that knowing a person’s chosen wardrobe can be used as a soft-biometric to distinguish identities in the long-term. We evaluate the performance of our proposed BP-WM on the extended Indoor Long-term Re-identification Wardrobe (ILRW) dataset. Experimental results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance and that BP-WM can be used as a reliable soft-biometric for person re-identification.