Person re-identification based on deep learning — An overview

Person re-identification(ReID) is an intelligent video surveillance technology that retrieves the same person from different cameras. This task is extremely challenging due to changes in person poses, different camera views, and occlusion. In recent years, person ReID based on deep learning technology has received widespread attention due to the rapid development and excellent performance of deep learning. In this paper, we first divide person ReID based on deep learning approaches into seven types, i.e., fused hand-crafted features deep model, representation learning model, metric learning model, part-based deep model, video-based model, GAN-based model, unsupervised model. Furthermore, we launched a brief overview of the seven types. Then, we introduce some examples of commonly used datasets, compare the performance of some algorithms on image and video datasets in recent years, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of various methods. Finally, we summarize the possible future research directions of person ReID technology.