Review for NeurIPS paper: The Dilemma of TriHard Loss and an Element-Weighted TriHard Loss for Person Re-Identification

Neural Information Processing Systems 

All four knowledgeable reviewers were left with a favorable opinion of this work after the author rebuttal, and the AC agrees with this positive assessment. However, during the post-rebuttal discussion phase an independent ethics review was conducted regarding the general use of the DukeMTMC dataset. Some concerns raised about use of this dataset during this ethics review include: -- "... the dataset collection involved non-consensual video surveillance of students on Duke University campus. It is unlikely that all students even knew they were being recorded, and their relative lack of power with respect to the institution surveilling them also raises concerns about the ability to meaningfully object to the surveillance." Referencing the issues and discouraging future use of the dataset would help mitigate this, as would full removal of the results."