# Person Re-identification Using Visual Attention

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07336 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.07336/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 23 Jul 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [CIAO! A Contrastive Adaptation Mechanism for Non-Universal Facial Expression Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.07221/) (2022)
- [Person Re-Identification System at Semantic Level based on Pedestrian Attributes Ontology](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.04143/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Despite recent attempts for solving the person re-identification problem, it remains a challenging task since a person's appearance can vary significantly when large variations in view angle, human pose, and illumination are involved. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on using a gradient-based attention mechanism in deep convolution neural network for solving the person re-identification problem. Our model learns to focus selectively on parts of the input image for which the networks' output is most sensitive to and processes them with high resolution while perceiving the surrounding image in low resolution. Extensive comparative evaluations demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on the challenging CUHK01, CUHK03, and Market 1501 datasets.