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Person search aims to localize a person of interest in a large image gallery captured by multiple, non-overlapping cameras. Prevalent unified methods have suffered from (1) noisy proposals with mis-detection and occlusion, and (2) large appearance variation within a class, which deteriorates the prototype-based metric learning. To address these problems, we introduce a Prototype-guided Attention Distillation, shortly PAD, which exploits a prototype (a typical representation of an identity) as a guidance to the attention module to consistently highlight identity-inherent regions across different poses. To utilize the knowledge encoded in prototypes for matching unseen IDs, PAD conducts attention distillation to guide student Re-ID queries by deeply mimicking attention maps from the prototype query. Additionally, to address large intra-class variation induced by pose or camera views, we extend PAD with multiple part prototypes representing consistent local regions across different instances. Furthermore, we exploit an adaptive momentum strategy for robust attention distillation in PAD to update more distinct prototypes. Extensive experiments conducted on CUHK-SYSU and PRW demonstrate the effectiveness of PAD, showcasing state-of-the-art performance. Moreover, our distilled attention surprisingly highlights distinguished multiple regions for person search.

Stereo matching is one of the most popular techniques to estimate dense depth maps by finding the disparity between matching pixels on two, synchronized and rectified images. Alongside with the development of more accurate algorithms, the research community focused on finding good strategies to estimate the reliability, i.e., the confidence, of estimated disparity maps. This information proves to be a powerful cue to naively find wrong matches as well as to improve the overall effectiveness of a variety of stereo algorithms according to different strategies. In this paper, we review more than ten years of developments in the field of confidence estimation for stereo matching. We extensively discuss and evaluate existing confidence measures and their variants, from hand-crafted ones to the most recent, state-of-the-art learning based methods. We study the different behaviors of each measure when applied to a pool of different stereo algorithms and, for the first time in literature, when paired with a state-of-the-art deep stereo network. Our experiments, carried out on five different standard datasets, provide a comprehensive overview of the field, highlighting in particular both strengths and limitations of learning-based strategies.