Ground-to-Aerial Person Search: Benchmark Dataset and Approach

Shizhou Zhang, Qingchun Yang, De Cheng, Yinghui Xing, Guoqiang Liang, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang

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Abstract

In this work, we construct a large-scale dataset for Ground-to-Aerial Person Search, named G2APS, which contains 31,770 images of 260,559 annotated bounding boxes for 2,644 identities appearing in both of the UAVs and ground surveillance cameras. To our knowledge, this is the first dataset for cross-platform intelligent surveillance applications, where the UAVs could work as a powerful complement for the ground surveillance cameras. To more realistically simulate the actual cross-platform Ground-to-Aerial surveillance scenarios, the surveillance cameras are fixed about 2 meters above the ground, while the UAVs capture videos of persons at different location, with a variety of view-angles, flight attitudes and flight modes. Therefore, the dataset has the following unique characteristics: 1) drastic view-angle changes between query and gallery person images from cross-platform cameras; 2) diverse resolutions, poses and views of the person images under 9 rich real-world scenarios. On basis of the G2APS benchmark dataset, we demonstrate detailed analysis about current two-step and end-to-end person search methods, and further propose a simple yet effective knowledge distillation scheme on the head of the ReID network, which achieves state-of-the-art performances on both of the G2APS and the previous two public person search datasets, i.e., PRW and CUHK-SYSU. The dataset and source code available on https://github.com/yqc123456/HKD-for-person-search.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM 2023 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages789-799
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701085
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Oct 2023
Event31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2023 - Ottawa, Canada
Duration: 29 Oct 20233 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameMM 2023 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Conference

Conference31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa
Period29/10/233/11/23

Keywords

  • dataset
  • ground-to-aerial
  • knowledge distillation
  • person search

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