  We propose a new deep architecture for person re-identification (re-id).
While re-id has seen much recent progress, spatial localization and
view-invariant representation learning for robust cross-view matching remain
key, unsolved problems. We address these questions by means of a new
attention-driven Siamese learning architecture, called the Consistent Attentive
Siamese Network. Our key innovations compared to existing, competing methods
include (a) a flexible framework design that produces attention with only
identity labels as supervision, (b) explicit mechanisms to enforce attention
consistency among images of the same person, and (c) a new Siamese framework
that integrates attention and attention consistency, producing principled
supervisory signals as well as the first mechanism that can explain the
reasoning behind the Siamese framework's predictions. We conduct extensive
evaluations on the CUHK03-NP, DukeMTMC-ReID, and Market-1501 datasets and
report competitive performance.
