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Although Transformer-based models like TransReID have demonstrated a strong capability for capturing global context in feature extraction, the features they produce still have room for optimization at the metric matching stage. To address this issue, this study proposes a hybrid framework that combines advanced feature extraction with post-processing optimization. We employed a fixed, pre-trained TransReID model as the feature extractor and introduced a camera-aware Jaccard distance re-ranking algorithm (CA-Jaccard) as a post-processing module. Without retraining the main model, this framework refines the initial distance metric matrix by analyzing the local neighborhood topology among feature vectors and incorporating camera information. Experiments were conducted on two major public datasets, Market-1501 and MSMT17. The results show that our framework significantly improved the overall ranking quality of the model, increasing the mean Average Precision (mAP) on Market-1501 from 88.2% to 93.58% compared to using TransReID alone, achieving a gain of nearly 4% in mAP on MSMT17. This research confirms that advanced post-processing techniques can effectively complement powerful feature extraction models, providing an efficient pathway to enhance the robustness of ReID systems in complex scenarios. Additionally, it is the first-ever to analyze how the modified distance metric improves the ReID task when used specifically with the ViT-based feature extractor TransReID.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a18110714","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,14]],"date-time":"2025-11-14T14:37:52Z","timestamp":1763131072000},"page":"714","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Person Re-Identification Under Non-Overlapping Cameras Based on Advanced Contextual Embeddings"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Chi-Hung","family":"Chuang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Computer Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan 320314, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Tz-Chian","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Computer Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan 320314, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-7928-0882","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chong-Wei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Undergraduate Program in Intelligent Computing and Big Data, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan 320314, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6251-4304","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jung-Hua","family":"Lo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Informatics, Fo-Guang University, Yilan County 262307, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0831-8251","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chih-Lung","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Hwa-Hsia University of Technology, New Taipei City 23568, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City 106335, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"He, S., Luo, H., Wang, P., Wang, F., Li, H., and Jiang, W. 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