Unsupervised camouflaged object detection (UCOD) poses significant challenges, primarily attributed to the absence of human labels. Existing UCOD methodologies, leveraging attention mechanisms, often struggle to achieve precise localization of camouflaged objects. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a groundbreaking fully unsupervised algorithm for attention-guided camouflaged object localization, shift, and inference, termed the self-distilled attention localization and shift network (SdalsNet). In this study, we formulate an attention localization methodology aimed at accurately identifying the central coordinate of the camouflaged object. Furthermore, we propose four distinct loss functions tailored to refine the precision of attentional positioning. These loss functions effectively constrain the distances between three types of class tokens, facilitating seamless attentional shifting across the input sample. Additionally, we design a sophisticated prediction inference technique to reconstruct the binary output of an attention map, thereby providing a comprehensive understanding of the detected camouflaged objects. Experimental results on four challenging COD benchmark datasets corroborate the effectiveness of our proposed approach, demonstrating notable superiority over state-of-the-art methods.

Gait recognition aims to identify individuals based on their body shape and walking patterns. Though much progress has been achieved driven by deep learning, gait recognition in real-world surveillance scenarios remains quite challenging to current methods. Conventional approaches, which rely on periodic gait cycles and controlled environments, struggle with the non-periodic and occluded silhouette sequences encountered in the wild. In this paper, we propose a novel framework,TrackletGait, designed to address these challenges in the wild. We propose Random Tracklet Sampling, a generalization of existing sampling methods, which strikes a balance between robustness and representation in capturing diverse walking patterns. Next, we introduce Haar Wavelet-based Downsampling to preserve information during spatial downsampling. Finally, we present a Hardness Exclusion Triplet Loss, designed to exclude low-quality silhouettes by discarding hard triplet samples. TrackletGait achieves state-of-the-art results, with 77.8% and 80.4% rank-1 accuracy on the Gait3D and GREW datasets, respectively, while using only 10.3M backbone parameters. Extensive experiments are also conducted to further investigate the factors affecting gait recognition in the wild.

Unsupervised person re-identification (re-ID) attracts growing attention due to its broad prospects in practical applications. State-of-the-art unsupervised re-ID approaches combine clustering-based pseudo-label prediction with feature fine-tuning. However, pseudo labels generated directly by clustering are not always reliable and inevitably contain noisy labels. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel noise inhibition framework to estimate the confidence of each pseudo label and actively correct noisy labels. By introducing the silhouette coefficient, our method can estimate the pseudo-label confidence without any extra model or data, and calculate the correction matrix to correct clustering results directly. However, the silhouette coefficient is usually applied on the hyper-parameters selection of clustering algorithms. In order to make the silhouette coefficient more suitable for estimation and correction tasks, we calibrate the Jaccard distance matrix to alleviate the negative influence of the cluster size on the silhouette coefficient. Our proposed method brings significant improvement and achieves the state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.

Person re-identification (ReID) is a crucial aspect of recognising pedestrians across multiple surveillance cameras. Even though significant progress has been made in recent years, the viewpoint change and scale variations still affect model performance. In this paper, we observe that it is beneficial for the model to handle the above issues when boost the consistent feature extraction capability among different transforms (e.g., flipping and scaling) of the same image. To this end, we propose a visual attention consistency network (VAC-Net). Specifically, we propose Embedding Spatial Consistency (ESC) architecture with flipping, scaling and original forms of the same image as inputs to learn a consistent embedding space. Furthermore, we design an Input-Wise visual attention consistent loss (IW-loss) so that the class activation maps(CAMs) from the three transforms are aligned with each other to enforce their advanced semantic information remains consistent. Finally, we propose a Layer-Wise visual attention consistent loss (LW-loss) to further enforce the semantic information among different stages to be consistent with the CAMs within each branch. These two losses can effectively improve the model to address the viewpoint and scale variations. Experiments on the challenging Market-1501, DukeMTMC-reID, and MSMT17 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed VAC-Net.

The generalization ability of deep person re-identification networks is subject to inadequate person data and occlusions. To relieve this dilemma, we propose a feature-level augmentation strategy, Adversarially Erased Learning Module (AELM), using two adversarial classifiers. Specifically, we utilize a classifier to identify discriminative regions and erase them to increase the variant of features. Meanwhile, we input the erased feature maps to another classifier to discover new body regions, which effectively resist occlusion of key parts. To easily perform end-to-end training for AELM, we propose a novel Identity model based on Fully Convolutional Networks (IFCN) to directly obtain body response heatmap during the forward pass by selecting corresponding class-specific feature map. Thus, the discriminative regions can be identified and erased in a convenient way. Moreover, to capture discriminative region for AELM, we present a Complementary Attention Module (CoAM) combined with channel and spatial attention to automatically focus on which feature types and positions are meaningful in the feature maps. In this paper, CoAM and AELM are cascaded into one module which is applied to the outputs of different convolutional layers to integrate mid- and high-level semantic features. Experimental results on three challenging benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.