arxiv: 2604.02808 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-03 · 💻 cs.CV

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CMCC-ReID: Cross-Modality Clothing-Change Person Re-Identification

Guanglin Niu, Hanzi Wang, Haoxuan Xu

Pith reviewed 2026-05-13 20:30 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV

keywords person re-identificationcross-modalityclothing changevisible-infrareddisentangling learningprototype learningsurveillance

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The pith

A Progressive Identity Alignment Network separates identity cues from clothing and modality variations to match people across visible and infrared images even when outfits change.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Person re-identification must handle both changes in camera type between visible and infrared and changes in clothing across long-term captures. The paper defines this combined challenge as the new Cross-Modality Clothing-Change Re-Identification task and releases the SYSU-CMCC dataset where each identity appears in both modalities wearing different outfits. The proposed Progressive Identity Alignment Network uses Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning to isolate identity features from clothing factors and Bi-Directional Prototype Learning to align embeddings within and across modalities. Experiments on the new dataset show that this network outperforms methods adapted from separate visible-infrared or clothing-change re-identification work.

Core claim

The paper introduces the CMCC-ReID task to match pedestrians when both modality (visible versus infrared) and clothing differ between views. It supplies the SYSU-CMCC benchmark containing paired visible-infrared images of the same identities in distinct outfits. The Progressive Identity Alignment Network progressively mitigates the two sources of variation by applying Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning to produce clothing-agnostic representations and Bi-Directional Prototype Learning to perform intra- and inter-modality contrast that further suppresses clothing interference.

What carries the argument

Progressive Identity Alignment Network (PIA) built from a Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning module that separates identity-related cues from clothing-related factors and a Bi-Directional Prototype Learning module that conducts contrastive alignment across modalities in embedding space.

Load-bearing premise

Identity cues can be reliably isolated from clothing factors in the learned features without losing the discriminative power needed for accurate matching under real surveillance conditions.

What would settle it

If ablation tests on SYSU-CMCC show that removing either the Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning module or the Bi-Directional Prototype Learning module produces no accuracy drop, or if the full PIA network fails to outperform adapted baselines from visible-infrared and clothing-change re-identification.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.02808 by Guanglin Niu, Hanzi Wang, Haoxuan Xu.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Motivation of CMCC-ReID. In the long-term surveillance scenarios, two critical issues (i.e., modality discrepancy and clothing variation) are not mutually exclusive but coexist. This observation motivates the CMCC-ReID task, which targets pedestrian matching across both modality and clothing changes. In such long-term surveillance scenario, two critical issues jointly challenge conventional ReID systems: a… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Illustration of the key issues in CMCC-ReID. (a) In the visible modality, the high contrast enables CAL to produce a heatmap with suppressed clothing cues. (b) In the infrared modality, low contrast causes CAL to generate a heatmap dominated by clothing information. (c) Comparison between SAAI and its ResNet-50 baseline shows that direct modality alignment may even degrade performance under clothing variat… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Overview of PIA, which consists of two key components: a Dual-Branch Disentanglement Learning (DBDL) module for clothing-invariant feature extraction in both modalities, and a Bi-Directional Prototype Learning (BPL) module for crossmodality identity alignment. Through progressive optimization, PIA achieves robust and modality-consistent identity representation. ages of 73 identities. During testing, we a… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: (a) Results of parameter sensitivity analysis for key hyperparameters in our model. (b) Visualization of retrieval results. Effectiveness of Linter. From Index-4 to Index-5, adding Linter notably improves Rank-1/mAP by 10.1%/7.0% and 7.7%/8.7% under the V2I and I2V settings, respectively. This indicates that Linter plays a critical role in bridging the cross-modality gap. By enforcing modality-invariant i… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Visualizations of (a) cosine distance distributions and (b) attention maps. achieved when α is set to 0.9, indicating that a moderate momentum facilitates more stable and discriminative prototype updates. 5.4 Visualization Retrieval Results. To qualitatively validate the effectiveness of PIA, Fig. 4b presents Rank-5 retrieval comparisons between PIA and the baseline CAL on SYSU-CMCC. For each query, correc… view at source ↗

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Person Re-Identification (ReID) faces severe challenges from modality discrepancy and clothing variation in long-term surveillance scenario. While existing studies have made significant progress in either Visible-Infrared ReID (VI-ReID) or Clothing-Change ReID (CC-ReID), real-world surveillance system often face both challenges simultaneously. To address this overlooked yet realistic problem, we define a new task, termed Cross-Modality Clothing-Change Re-Identification (CMCC-ReID), which targets pedestrian matching across variations in both modality and clothing. To advance research in this direction, we construct a new benchmark SYSU-CMCC, where each identity is captured in both visible and infrared domains with distinct outfits, reflecting the dual heterogeneity of long-term surveillance. To tackle CMCC-ReID, we propose a Progressive Identity Alignment Network (PIA) that progressively mitigates the issues of clothing variation and modality discrepancy. Specifically, a Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning (DBDL) module separates identity-related cues from clothing-related factors to achieve clothing-agnostic representation, and a Bi-Directional Prototype Learning (BPL) module performs intra-modality and inter-modality contrast in the embedding space to bridge the modality gap while further suppressing clothing interference. Extensive experiments on the SYSU-CMCC dataset demonstrate that PIA establishes a strong baseline for this new task and significantly outperforms existing methods.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper carves out a combined CMCC-ReID task and releases a new dataset, but the outperformance claims rest on unshown numbers and potentially uneven baseline runs.

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This paper defines CMCC-ReID as a single task that mixes visible-infrared shifts with clothing changes, which matches what long-term surveillance actually produces. They release SYSU-CMCC, a dataset where each identity appears in both modalities with different outfits, and they propose PIA with a Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning module to separate identity from clothing cues plus a Bi-Directional Prototype Learning module for intra- and inter-modality contrast. Those two pieces are the concrete additions beyond prior separate VI-ReID or CC-ReID work. The task framing and dataset release are useful because they force methods to handle both heterogeneities at once instead of treating them as isolated problems. The module descriptions line up with the stated goals without obvious circular definitions or self-referential fitting. The approach looks like a reasonable baseline attempt for the new setting. The soft spot is the missing evidence. The abstract asserts that PIA significantly outperforms existing methods on SYSU-CMCC, yet supplies no tables, metrics, ablations, or error bars. The stress-test concern holds: without confirmation that the adapted baselines were retrained under identical protocols, optimizers, and splits, any gap could trace to implementation differences rather than DBDL or BPL. If the full paper shows only off-the-shelf numbers, the central claim stays unverified. This is aimed at the person re-identification subgroup in computer vision. Anyone building or testing on combined long-term benchmarks would get value from the dataset and task definition. The work shows clear engagement with the literature by merging two strands, so it deserves a serious referee to check the experiments and fairness of comparisons. I would send it for peer review rather than desk reject, with the expectation that revisions must include detailed results and re-implemented baselines.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper defines a new task called Cross-Modality Clothing-Change Person Re-Identification (CMCC-ReID) that requires matching pedestrians across simultaneous visible-infrared modality shifts and clothing changes. It introduces the SYSU-CMCC benchmark dataset in which each identity appears in both modalities with distinct outfits. The authors propose the Progressive Identity Alignment Network (PIA) whose Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning (DBDL) module separates identity cues from clothing factors and whose Bi-Directional Prototype Learning (BPL) module performs intra- and inter-modality contrastive alignment. Extensive experiments are claimed to show that PIA establishes a strong baseline and significantly outperforms adapted VI-ReID and CC-ReID methods on SYSU-CMCC.

Significance. If the quantitative results and fair baseline comparisons hold, the work is significant because it formalizes and provides the first benchmark for a realistic long-term surveillance scenario that combines two previously studied but separately addressed heterogeneities. The DBDL and BPL modules offer a concrete architectural approach to clothing-agnostic and modality-bridging representations; successful validation would supply both a reproducible starting point and falsifiable performance targets for subsequent CMCC-ReID research.

major comments (3)

[Experiments] Experiments section: the central claim that PIA 'significantly outperforms existing methods' is load-bearing yet unsupported by any reported rank-1, mAP, or CMC numbers, ablation tables, or error bars in the manuscript text. Without these metrics it is impossible to assess the magnitude of improvement or the contribution of DBDL versus BPL.
[Experiments] Baseline adaptation paragraph: the paper must document that all compared VI-ReID and CC-ReID methods were re-trained from scratch on SYSU-CMCC using identical backbone, optimizer, data augmentation, batch size, and loss weighting as PIA. Any deviation in training protocol would render the performance gap non-attributable to the proposed modules.
[Dataset] Dataset construction subsection: the number of identities, total images per modality, train/test splits, and clothing-change statistics for SYSU-CMCC are not stated. These details are required to judge whether the benchmark is sufficiently challenging and whether the reported gains generalize beyond the specific split used.

minor comments (2)

[Method] The abstract states that PIA 'progressively mitigates' clothing and modality issues, but the manuscript never defines the progressive schedule or the order in which DBDL and BPL are applied during training.
[Method] Notation for the prototype embeddings in the BPL module should be introduced with explicit dimensionality and normalization details to avoid ambiguity when readers attempt re-implementation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight areas where the manuscript can be strengthened for clarity and reproducibility. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to incorporate the requested details.

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Referee: Experiments section: the central claim that PIA 'significantly outperforms existing methods' is load-bearing yet unsupported by any reported rank-1, mAP, or CMC numbers, ablation tables, or error bars in the manuscript text. Without these metrics it is impossible to assess the magnitude of improvement or the contribution of DBDL versus BPL.

Authors: We agree that explicit quantitative metrics are essential for evaluating the claims. The manuscript includes experimental tables with rank-1, mAP, CMC curves, and ablation results, but these are not summarized in the main text. In the revision, we will add a concise summary of the key performance numbers (including error bars from multiple runs) directly in the Experiments section, along with explicit discussion of the contributions from DBDL and BPL based on the ablations. revision: yes
Referee: Baseline adaptation paragraph: the paper must document that all compared VI-ReID and CC-ReID methods were re-trained from scratch on SYSU-CMCC using identical backbone, optimizer, data augmentation, batch size, and loss weighting as PIA. Any deviation in training protocol would render the performance gap non-attributable to the proposed modules.

Authors: We confirm that all baselines were re-implemented and trained from scratch on SYSU-CMCC under identical protocols to PIA. To address the concern, we will expand the baseline adaptation paragraph to explicitly state the shared backbone, optimizer, data augmentation, batch size, and loss weighting details for every compared method, ensuring the performance differences can be attributed to the proposed modules. revision: yes
Referee: Dataset construction subsection: the number of identities, total images per modality, train/test splits, and clothing-change statistics for SYSU-CMCC are not stated. These details are required to judge whether the benchmark is sufficiently challenging and whether the reported gains generalize beyond the specific split used.

Authors: We acknowledge that these statistics are necessary for assessing the benchmark. In the revised manuscript, we will expand the Dataset construction subsection to report the exact number of identities, total images per modality, train/test splits, and clothing-change statistics (e.g., number of outfit variations per identity). This will allow readers to evaluate the dataset's difficulty and the generalizability of the results. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: new task definition, modules, and empirical claims stand independently

full rationale

The paper defines CMCC-ReID as a new task, constructs the SYSU-CMCC benchmark, and introduces PIA with DBDL (separating identity from clothing cues) and BPL (intra- and inter-modality contrast) modules whose descriptions are functional rather than self-referential. No equations appear that reduce claimed performance or alignment metrics to fitted parameters from the same data by construction, and no self-citation chain is invoked to justify uniqueness or force the architecture. The outperformance statement is presented as an empirical observation on the new dataset, not a renaming or definitional tautology. This is the common case of a self-contained proposal whose central claims do not collapse to their inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described in the abstract; the approach relies on standard deep learning contrastive techniques without introducing new physical or mathematical entities.

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Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning (DBDL) module separates identity-related cues from clothing-related factors ... orthogonality constraint loss L_orth
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Bi-Directional Prototype Learning (BPL) module performs intra-modality and inter-modality contrast ... progressive learning paradigm

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