Person re-identification(Re-ID)is a fundamental subject in the field of the computer vision technologies.The traditional methods of person Re-ID have difficulty in solving the problems of person illumination,occlusion and attitude change under complex background.Meanwhile,the introduction of deep learning opens a new way of person Re-ID research and becomes a hot spot in this field.This study reviews the traditional methods of person Re-ID,then the authors focus on the related papers about different person Re-ID frameworks on the basis of deep learning,and discusses their advantages and disadvantages.Finally,they propose the direction of further research,especially the prospect of person Re-ID methods based on deep learning.