Cross-Modal Cross-Domain Moment Alignment Network for Person Search

Text-based person search has drawn increasing attention due to its wide applications in video surveillance. However, most of the existing models depend heavily on paired image-text data, which is very expensive to acquire. Moreover, they always face huge performance drop when directly exploiting them to new domains. To overcome this problem, we make the first attempt to adapt the model to new target domains in the absence of pairwise labels, which combines the challenges from both cross-modal (text-based) person search and cross-domain person search. Specially, we propose a moment alignment network (MAN) to solve the cross-modal cross-domain person search task in this paper. The idea is to learn three effective moment alignments including domain alignment (DA), cross-modal alignment (CA) and exemplar alignment (EA), which together can learn domain-invariant and semantic aligned cross-modal representations to improve model generalization. Extensive experiments are conducted on CUHK Person Description dataset (CUHK-PEDES) and Richly Annotated Pedestrian dataset (RAP). Experimental results show that our proposed model achieves the state-of-the-art performances on five transfer tasks.