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Imaging"],"abstract":"<jats:p>As a crucial task in surveillance and security, person re-identification (re-ID) aims to identify the targeted pedestrians across multiple images captured by non-overlapping cameras. However, existing person re-ID solutions have two main challenges: the lack of pedestrian identification labels in the captured images, and domain shift issue between different domains. A generative adversarial networks (GAN)-based self-training framework with progressive augmentation (SPA) is proposed to obtain the robust features of the unlabeled data from the target domain, according to the preknowledge of the labeled data from the source domain. Specifically, the proposed framework consists of two stages: the style transfer stage (STrans), and self-training stage (STrain). 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