Person re-identification dataset with RGB-D camera in a top-view configuration

Video analytics, involves a variety of techniques to monitor, analyse, and extract meaningful information from video streams. In this light, person re-identification is an important topic in scene monitoring, human computer interaction, retail, people counting, ambient assisted living and many other computer vision research. The existing datasets are not suitable for activity monitoring and human behaviour analysis. For this reason we build a novel dataset for person re-identification that uses an RGB-D camera in a top-view configuration. This setup choice is primarily due to the reduction of occlusions and it has also the advantage of being privacy preserving, because faces are not recorded by the camera. The use of an RGB-D camera allows to extract anthropometric features for the recognition of people passing under the camera. The paper describes in details the collection and construction modalities of the dataset TVPR. This is composed by 100 people and for each video frame nine depth and colour features are computed and provided together with key descriptive statistics.