The invention discloses a
pedestrian re-identification method based on self-excitation discriminative
feature learning, which comprises the following steps: (1) selecting a
pedestrian re-identification network, and adding a negative
branch on the original network; (2) in the training stage, generating a classification
loss function by the original network, generating a confrontation loss functionand a
mutual exclusion response item between the original network and the negative
branch to form an objective function, and utilizing a random
gradient descent method to optimize the whole network; (3) in the test stage, removing a negative
branch, only keeping the part, in front of the classifier, of the original network as a trained
network model, and inputting a
pedestrian picture for extracting a
feature vector test; and (4) in the pedestrian retrieval stage, extracting the
feature vector of each picture in the picture
library by using the trained
network model, and selecting the identityof the picture with the highest similarity with the
feature vector of the to-be-queried pedestrian picture as a final recognition result. According to the invention, the effect of the existing pedestrian re-identification network can be improved.