%P 488-498 %O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. %T Deep Compact Person Re-Identification with Distractor Synthesis via Guided DC-GANs %L discovery10115347 %I Springer %D 2019 %C Cham, Switzerland %J IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING - ICIAP 2019, PT I %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %X We present a dual-stream CNN that learns both appearance and facial features in tandem from still images and, after feature fusion, infers person identities. We then describe an alternative architecture of a single, lightweight ID-CondenseNet where a face detector-guided DC-GAN is used to generate distractor person images for enhanced training. For evaluation, we test both architectures on FLIMA, a new extension of an existing person re-identification dataset with added frame-by-frame annotations of face presence. Although the dual-stream CNN can outperform the CondenseNet approach on FLIMA, we show that the latter surpasses all state-of-the-art architectures in top-1 ranking performance when applied to the largest existing person re-identification dataset, MSMT17. We conclude that whilst re-identification performance is highly sensitive to the structure of datasets, distractor augmentation and network compression have a role to play for enhancing performance characteristics for larger scale applications. %B Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2019. ICIAP 2019 %E E Ricci %E SR Bulo %E C Snoek %E O Lanz %E S Messelodi %E N Sebe %K Person Re-ID, GANs, Distractor synthesis, Deep face analysis %V 11751 %A V Ponce-Lopez %A T Burghardt %A Y Sun %A S Hannuna %A D Damen %A M Mirmehdi