The invention belongs to the technical field of
computer vision,
artificial intelligence and intelligent security and protection, and particularly relates to an unsupervised visible light-
infrared person re-identification method based on cyclic pairwise identity learning, and the method comprises the steps: extracting multi-
modal features from a
pedestrian image through employing a
backbone network in a training stage, calculating a cross-
modal similarity matrix according to the multi-
modal features, and carrying out the recognition of the cross-modal
similarity matrix; projecting a cross-modal
similarity matrix to a pairwise matrix through a pairwise
matrix projection network, calculating a multi-modal relation matrix by fusing the pairwise matrix and cross-modal identity matching information, aligning modals by using a reversible mapping model, and training the network and the model by using loss in a training stage; in the recognition stage, the
cosine similarity of all features in the query image
feature set and the image
library feature set is calculated, and an image corresponding to the feature ranked in the front is taken as a cross-modal identity re-recognition result of the query image; according to the method, visible light and
infrared modal
pedestrian image accurate matching and identity re-identification can be realized under the unsupervised condition.