Person Re-Identification via Generalized Class Prototypes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17043v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:16:57 GMT
• Title: Person Re-Identification via Generalized Class Prototypes
• Authors: Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid, William J. Beksi,
• Abstract summary: selecting better class representatives is an underexplored area of research.<n>We propose a generalized selection method that involves choosing representations that are not limited to class centroids.<n>Our approach strikes a balance between accuracy and mean average precision, leading to improvements beyond the state of the art.
• Score: 9.600466490978665
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Advanced feature extraction methods have significantly contributed to enhancing the task of person re-identification. In addition, modifications to objective functions have been developed to further improve performance. Nonetheless, selecting better class representatives is an underexplored area of research that can also lead to advancements in re-identification performance. Although past works have experimented with using the centroid of a gallery image class during training, only a few have investigated alternative representations during the retrieval stage. In this paper, we demonstrate that these prior techniques yield suboptimal results in terms of re-identification metrics. To address the re-identification problem, we propose a generalized selection method that involves choosing representations that are not limited to class centroids. Our approach strikes a balance between accuracy and mean average precision, leading to improvements beyond the state of the art. For example, the actual number of representations per class can be adjusted to meet specific application requirements. We apply our methodology on top of multiple re-identification embeddings, and in all cases it substantially improves upon contemporary results

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