Salient foreground-aware network for person search

Person search aims to simultaneously localize and identify a query person from realistic and uncropped images, which consists of person detection and re-identification. In existing methods, the extracted features come from the low-quality proposals generated by the structure like Region Proposal Network (RPN), and convolution is used to learn local features in the process of extracting features while the receptive field cannot grasp the global structural information. We propose an end-to-end network embedded with our Salient Foreground-Aware Module (SFAM). Self-attention mechanism in SFAM allows for better capture of global information. Our network incorporates our embedding method for person detection and person re-identification, which can effectively optimize the process of extracting features and improve feature expression capabilities. We merge the above modules into our Salient Foreground-Aware Network (SFAN). Extensive experiments have shown that our SFAN significantly improves the performance of end-to-end models with acceptable time-consuming and achieves state-of-the-art results.