TLCSFI: A Pose-Guided Person Re-Identification Method with Two-Level Channel–Spatial Feature Integration

Person re-identification methods currently encounter challenges in feature learning, primarily due to difficulties in expressing the correlation between local features and integrating global and local features effectively. To address these issues, a pose-guided person re-identification method with Two-Level Channel–Spatial Feature Integration (TLCSFI) is proposed. In TLCSFI, a two-level integration mechanism is implemented. At the first level, TLCSFI integrates the spatial information from local features to generate fine-grained spatial features. At the second level, the fine-grained spatial feature and the coarse-grained channel feature are integrated together to complete channel–spatial feature integration. In the method, a Pose-based Spatial Feature Integration (PSFI) module is introduced to generate the pose union feature, which calculates intra-body affinity to guide the integration of spatial information among local pose feature maps. Then, a Channel and Spatial Union Feature Integration (CSUFI) module is proposed to efficiently integrate the channel information of the global feature and the spatial information of the pose union feature. Two individual networks are designed to extract channel and spatial information, respectively, in CSUFI, which are then weighted and integrated. Experiments are conducted on three publicly available datasets to evaluate TLCSFI, and the experimental results demonstrate its competitive performance.