The invention discloses a person re-identification method based on 
background suppression. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a plurality of image samples and extracting feature vectors, the extracting method comprises performing 
feature vector extraction on image blocks, and extracting HOG 
histogram feature vectors of the blocks at the same time; acquiring random 
fern features based on an HOG domain, performing background determination by adopting random 
fern features, and connecting the feature vectors of the image blocks to acquire the feature vectors of the image accordingto the result of the background determination; performing 
feature vector extraction on the to-be-identified image blocks, and connecting the feature vectors of the image blocks to acquire the featurevectors of the image; and calculating the similarity between the feature vectors of the to-be-identified image and the feature vectors of each image sample to obtain an identification result. According to the person re-identification method based on 
background suppression, the background determination is performed by adopting the random 
fern features based on the HOG domain, the background feature in the image is suppressed, the interference of 
background factors is reduced, and the accuracy of person re-identification is improved.