Bridging visible and infrared modalities: a dual-level joint align network for person re-identification
摘要
Visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) is a challenging retrieval task due to modality gaps, which further causes large intra-class and small inter-class distances. However, unpaired training samples and substantial modality discrepancies constrains model’s ability of cross-modality alignment. To handle this issue, we propose the dual-level joint align network (DJANet), which integrates a multi-modal alignment augmentation (MAA) module and a multi-scale feature aggregation (MFA) module. MAA employs bidirectional alignment to convert visible images to infrared and vice versa, enhancing data diversity and reducing modality differences at the image-level. MFA leverages a multi-head attention mechanism and a state space model to refine and aggregate multi-scale features, preserving critical information and strengthening cross-modal feature correlations, thereby reducing the modality differences at the feature-level. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of DJANet over state-of-the-art methods, achieving impressive performance gains. This study not only advances the field of VI-ReID but also highlights the potential of dual-level alignment strategies in cross-modality tasks. The code and related datasets are available at https://github.com/Hmn-92/DJANet.