Image to video person re-identification (IVPR), i.e., matching between pedestrian video and image, is an important task in practice. Although several methods have been presented for IVPR, most of these methods investigate the IVPR problem under the supervised setting, and require a large number of labeled image-video pairs for training. In this paper, we study the IVPR problem under the semi-supervised setting, and propose a Kernel Analysis-synthesis Dictionary based heterogeneous Distance Learning (KADDL) approach. Specifically, KADDL first learns two pairs of kernel analysis-synthesis dictionaries from the labeled and unlabeled training image-video data in the kernel space. With the learned dictionary pairs, the heterogeneous image and video features can be transformed into coding coefficients of the same representation space, such that the gap between image and video can be bridged. Then, KADDL learns a discriminative distance metric over the transformed coding coefficients, to make the coding coefficients of positive image-video pair become similar, while those of negative image-video pair dissimilar. To make better use of the unlabeled data, we further designed a reliability-based semi-supervised strategy for KADDL. Experiments on several publicly available pedestrian sequence datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. INDEX TERMS Semi-supervised Image to video Person Re-identification, Distance learning, Kernel dictionary learning, coupled dictionary learning VOLUME 4, 2016 This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication. Citation information: DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3024289, IEEE Access Xiaoke Zhu et al.: KADDL for Semi-supervised Image to Video Person Re-id Probe image Gallery image Image-based person re-id Probe image Image to video person re-id Gallery video (c) Match Image feature Cross-domain match Image feature Video feature Image feature Probe video Gallery video Match Video feature Video feature Video-based person re-id