Gabor-LBP Based Region Covariance Descriptor for Person Re-identification

Person re-identification is an important problem in computer vision, which involves matching appearance of individuals between non-overlapping camera views. In this paper we present a novel appearance-based method for person re-identification problem. Color feature, Gabor, local binary pattern (LBP) are utilized to form a covariance descriptor to handle the difficulties such as varying illumination, viewpoint angle and non-rigid body, then distances of these features are computed to match these individuals. Experimental results over the challenging dataset VIPeR demonstrate that our method obtains competitive performance.