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On the basis of Coordinate Attention, the framework introduces a parameter-free Neighborhood Feature Centralization mechanism to build a lightweight attention module, which enhances cross-feature semantic interaction and suppresses background noise while retaining precise position encoding. It achieves end-to-end direct optimization of sample pair similarity through binary cross-entropy loss, eliminating the proxy task bias of traditional classification loss and adapting to the nonlinear structure of feature space. A multi-source data-driven training strategy is constructed by fusing ReID datasets and general classification datasets, which expands the coverage of feature space and narrows the distribution gap between training data and real air-to-ground scenarios without additional manual annotation. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves leading mAP values on the self-developed UAV air-to-ground dataset JC-1, the public person ReID dataset Market-1501, and the public vehicle ReID dataset VehicleID. 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