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Articles | Volume XLII-2/W8
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W8-37-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W8-37-2017
13 Nov 2017
 | 13 Nov 2017

BIFOCAL STEREO FOR MULTIPATH PERSON RE-IDENTIFICATION

G. Blott and C. Heipke

Keywords: Person Re-Identification, PRID, Bifocal Stereo, Multipath Person Re-Identification

Abstract. This work presents an approach for the task of person re-identification by exploiting bifocal stereo cameras. Present monocular person re-identification approaches show a decreasing working distance, when increasing the image resolution to obtain a higher reidentification performance. We propose a novel 3D multipath bifocal approach, containing a rectilinear lens with larger focal length for long range distances and a fish eye lens of a smaller focal length for the near range. The person re-identification performance is at least on par with 2D re-identification approaches but the working distance of the approach is increased and on average 10% more re-identification performance can be achieved in the overlapping field of view compared to a single camera. In addition, the 3D information is exploited from the overlapping field of view to solve potential 2D ambiguities.