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IIT Patna teams excel in privacy-preserving person re-identification competition

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Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna have presented their methods for the ICPR 2026 TVRID Competition on Privacy-Preserving Person Re-Identification. Their approaches focused on using RGB and Depth camera streams to identify individuals while minimizing color-based identity cues. Two teams from IIT Patna achieved top-10 rankings, with one team reaching 93.51% mAP and 90.42% CMC@1 on the Depth track, significantly outperforming the average. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates advancements in privacy-preserving techniques for person re-identification using depth data.

RANK_REASON The item is an academic paper detailing methods and results for a competition. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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IIT Patna teams excel in privacy-preserving person re-identification competition

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Abhinav Kumar, Swagatam Pati, Advait Deshmukh, Aditya Mehrotra, Bibek Das, Kumari Priya, Utsav Kumar Nareti, Saba Akram, Chandranath Adak ·

    IIT Patna at "ICPR 2026 TVRID Competition on Privacy-Preserving Person Re-Identification from Top-View RGB-Depth Camera"

    arXiv:2611.12960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Privacy-aware person re-identification (Re-ID) from top-view cameras replaces frontal appearance with anthropometric shape, while depth sensing further reduces color-based identity cues. The ICPR 2026 TVRID competition evaluates thi…

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