  In recent years, self-supervised learning has attracted widespread academic
debate and addressed many of the key issues of computer vision. The present
research focus is on how to construct a good agent task that allows for
improved network learning of advanced semantic information on images so that
model reasoning is accelerated during pre-training of the current task. In
order to solve the problem that existing feature extraction networks are
pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset and cannot extract the fine-grained
information in pedestrian images well, and the existing pre-task of contrast
self-supervised learning may destroy the original properties of pedestrian
images, this paper designs a pre-task of mask reconstruction to obtain a
pre-training model with strong robustness and uses it for the pedestrian
re-identification task. The training optimization of the network is performed
by improving the triplet loss based on the centroid, and the mask image is
added as an additional sample to the loss calculation, so that the network can
better cope with the pedestrian matching in practical applications after the
training is completed. This method achieves about 5% higher mAP on Marker1501
and CUHK03 data than existing self-supervised learning pedestrian
re-identification methods, and about 1% higher for Rank1, and ablation
experiments are conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of this method. Our
model code is located at https://github.com/ZJieX/prsnet.
