Person re-identification (ReID) is gaining more attention due to its important applications in pedestrian tracking and security prevention. Recently developed part-based methods have proven beneficial for stronger and explicit feature descriptions, but how to find real significant parts and reduce miscorrelation between images to improve accuracy of ReID still leaves much room to improve. In this paper, we propose a dynamic part-attention (DPA) method based on masks, which aims to improve the use of variable attention parts. Particularly, a two-branch network with a dynamic loss function is designed to extract features of the global image and the parts of the body separately. With the comprehensive but targeting learning strategy, the proposed method can capture discriminative features based, but not depending on, masks, which guides the whole network to focus on body features more consciously and achieves more robust performance. Our method achieves rank-1 accuracy of 91.68% on public dataset Market1501, and experimental results on three public datasets indicate that the proposed method is effective and achieves favorable accuracy when compared with the state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords: attention parts; convolutional neural network; cross cameras; dynamic combination; person re-identification.