The Re-Identification Challenge.- Part I: Features and Representations.- Discriminative Image Descriptors for Person Re-Identification.- SDALF.- Re-Identification by Covariance Descriptors.- Attributes-Based Re-Identification.- Person Re-Identification by Attribute-Assisted Clothes Appearance.- Person Re-Identification by Articulated Appearance Matching.- One-Shot Person Re-Identification with a Consumer Depth Camera.- Group Association.- Evaluating Feature Importance for Re-Identification.- Part II: Matching and Distance Metric.- Learning Appearance Transfer for Person Re-Identification.- Mahalanobis Distance Learning for Person Re-Identification.- Dictionary-Based Domain Adaptation Methods for the Re-Identification of Faces.- From Re-Identification to Identity Inference.- Re-Identification for Improved People Tracking.- Part III: Evaluation and Application.- Benchmarking for Person Re-Identification.- Person Re-Identification.- People Search with Textual Queries about Clothing Appearance Attributes.- Large Scale Camera Topology Mapping.- Scalable Multi-Camera Tracking in a Metropolis.

Re-identification offers a useful tool for non-invasive biometric validation, surveillance, and human-robot interaction in a broad range of applications from crowd traffic management to personalised healthcare.This comprehensive volume is the first work of its kind dedicated to addressing the challenge of Person Re-Identification, presenting insights from an international selection of leading authorities in the field. Taking a strongly multidisciplinary approach, the text provides an in-depth discussion of recent developments and state-of-the-art methods drawn from the computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning communities, embracing both fundamental research and practical applications.Topics and features:Introduces examples of robust feature representations, reviews salient feature weighting and selection mechanisms, and examines the benefits of semantic attributesDescribes how to segregate meaningful body parts from background clutterExamines the use of 3D depth images, and contextual constraints derived from the visual appearance of a groupReviews approaches to feature transfer function and distance metric learning, and discusses potential solutions to issues of data scalability and identity inferenceInvestigates the limitations of existing benchmark datasets, presents strategies for camera topology inference, and describes techniques for improving post-rank search efficiencyExplores the design rationale and implementation considerations of building a practical re-identification systemThis timely collection will be of great interest to academics, industrial researchers and postgraduates involved in computer vision and machine learning, database image retrieval, big data mining, and search engines, as well as to developers keen to exploit this emerging technology for commercial applications.

The book is intended for researchers that work, or want to start working on this research topic. … The book is very interesting and allows having an insight into the problem of person re-identification and its potential applications. It provides a presentation of the current state-of-the-are and recent progress on this topic. I think that researchers who intend to work on re-identification can benefit from reading this book. They will be introduced to the many interesting challenges to be faced.” (Donatello Conte, IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 37 (2), 2015)

Presents a unified collection of state-of-the-art solutions to fundamental problems in computer vision Examines a fast-growing topic of considerable interest to a broad audience Contains contributions from an international selection of experts in the field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras