ReText: Text Boosts Generalization in Image-Based Person Re-identification
arXiv:2602.05785v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalizable image-based person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to recognize individuals across cameras in unseen domains without retraining. While visual features are sensitive to domain shifts, natural language descriptions remain consistent across domains, regardless of lighting changes and other biases. Since well-known multi-camera datasets lack textual descriptions, we update them with captions through a fine-tuned Vision-Language…