Unsupervised person re-identification (re-ID) attracts increasing attention due to its practical applications in industry. State-of-the-art unsupervised re-ID methods train the neural networks using a memory-based non-parametric softmax loss. They store the pre-computed instance feature vectors inside the memory, assign pseudo labels to them using clustering algorithm, and compare the query instances to the cluster using a form of contrastive loss. During training, the instance feature vectors are updated. However, due to the varying cluster size, the updating progress for each cluster is inconsistent. To solve this problem, we present Cluster Contrast which stores feature vectors and computes contrast loss in the cluster level. We demonstrate that the inconsistency problem for cluster feature representation can be solved by the cluster-level memory dictionary. By straightforwardly applying Cluster Contrast to a standard unsupervised re-ID pipeline, it achieves considerable improvements of 9.5%, 7.5%, 6.6% compared to state-ofthe-art purely unsupervised re-ID methods and 5.1%, 4.0%, 6.5% mAP compared to the state-of-the-art unsupervised domain adaptation re-ID methods on the Market, Duke, and MSMT17 datasets.

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Rearranging objects on a tabletop surface by means of nonprehensile manipulation is a task which requires skillful interaction with the physical world. Usually, this is achieved by precisely modeling physical properties of the objects, robot, and the environment for explicit planning. In contrast, as explicitly modeling the physical environment is not always feasible and involves various uncertainties, we learn a nonprehensile rearrangement strategy with deep reinforcement learning based on only visual feedback. For this, we model the task with rewards and train a deep Q-network. Our potential field-based heuristic exploration strategy reduces the amount of collisions which lead to suboptimal outcomes and we actively balance the training set to avoid bias towards poor examples. Our training process leads to quicker learning and better performance on the task as compared to uniform exploration and standard experience replay. We demonstrate empirical evidence from simulation that our method leads to a success rate of 85%, show that our system can cope with sudden changes of the environment, and compare our performance with human level performance.

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