Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Robust Animal Re-Identification with Unsupervised Part-Based Feature Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13781v1
• Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:08:06 GMT
• Title: Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Robust Animal Re-Identification with Unsupervised Part-Based Feature Alignment
• Authors: Yingxue Yu, Vidit Vidit, Andrey Davydov, Martin Engilberge, Pascal Fua,
• Abstract summary: Animal Re-ID is crucial for wildlife conservation, yet it faces unique challenges compared to person Re-ID. This study addresses background biases by proposing a method to systematically remove backgrounds in both training and evaluation phases. Our method achieves superior results on three key animal Re-ID datasets: ATRW, YakReID-103, and ELPephants.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Animal Re-ID is crucial for wildlife conservation, yet it faces unique challenges compared to person Re-ID. First, the scarcity and lack of diversity in datasets lead to background-biased models. Second, animal Re-ID depends on subtle, species-specific cues, further complicated by variations in pose, background, and lighting. This study addresses background biases by proposing a method to systematically remove backgrounds in both training and evaluation phases. And unlike prior works that depend on pose annotations, our approach utilizes an unsupervised technique for feature alignment across body parts and pose variations, enhancing practicality. Our method achieves superior results on three key animal Re-ID datasets: ATRW, YakReID-103, and ELPephants.

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