The invention discloses a target retrieval method and
system. The method comprises the following steps: S1,
data access and preprocessing: acquiring multi-
source data, performing cleaning, formatting and time-space
standardization, and performing target detection and
cutting on an image / video to generate a structured target object; s2,
feature extraction: extracting deep
semantic feature vectors and auxiliary understanding information, which have discriminability and adapt to complex scenes, from the target image; s3, constructing a data index, including constructing a spatio-temporal semantic
hypergraph index of multiple types of nodes and hyperedges based on deep features and spatio-
temporal information of the targets to express a complex relationship between the targets; and S4,
data query: receiving multi-
modal query information of a user, performing candidate region screening,
feature matching and relation reasoning by utilizing a
hypergraph index, and finally outputting a high-confidence target
retrieval result. According to the method, the robustness of complex scenes and target changes and multi-dimensional query of depth are improved.