perf: back the CPU similarity GEMM with OpenBLAS

The CPU path was a scalar triple loop. It is the correctness oracle for the GPU
backends, but it is also what CI runs — there is no GPU on the N100 host — and
since AR-003 removed the per-frame face cap, a crowded frame now scores many
faces against a library-scale gallery. Scoring one face against 5000 embeddings
is 2.6 MFLOP; in scalar that does not hold up (AR-027).

S(g,f) viewed as row-major [n_faces x n_gallery] is exactly query * gallery^T,
so the loop nest collapses into a single cblas_sgemm.

OpenBLAS is optional in the build: found via pkg-config, and the scalar path
remains when it is absent so no hard dependency is added and the two can be
diffed when a similarity looks wrong. The configure step warns rather than
failing, since a developer without it should still get a working tree.

The test target links it too. Without that the suite compiles the scalar
fallback while the builder image ships CBLAS, so CI would be verifying a kernel
that is not the one running in production — the same class of mistake as testing
a path the gate never executes.

Recorded as required (not optional) in the DP-007 image, for the same reason.

Suite: 92 cases, 6136 assertions, with CBLAS compiled in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-026, AR-027, DP-007 | SR-001
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent bbab5aed23
commit 6da8ac2bdb
8 changed files with 325 additions and 17 deletions
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@@ -34,9 +34,23 @@ constexpr int kDim = 512;
#if defined(SAE_GEMM_CPU)
#if defined(SAE_GEMM_CBLAS)
#include <cblas.h>
#endif
// ── CPU reference engine ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Portable, dependency-free path used for CI and as the correctness oracle for
// the GPU backends. The gallery is L2-normalised (as are the queries), so each
// Used for CI and as the correctness oracle for the GPU backends.
//
// TRACES: AR-026, AR-027 | SR-001
// Backed by CBLAS (OpenBLAS) when available, falling back to a scalar loop when
// not. The fallback is portable but scales badly: scoring one face against a
// 5000-embedding gallery is 2.6 MFLOP, and a crowded frame multiplies that by
// the face count. Since AR-003 removed the per-frame face cap and CI has no GPU,
// the CPU path is now the one that has to hold up under a library-scale gallery
// (AR-027) rather than merely be correct.
//
// The fallback is kept rather than made mandatory so the build has no hard new
// dependency, and so the two can be diffed when a similarity looks wrong. The gallery is L2-normalised (as are the queries), so each
// similarity is a plain dot product. S is stored column-major to match the GPU
// backends: the gallery similarities for face fi start at result + fi*n_gallery.
class SimilarityEngine final : public ISimilarityEngine {
@@ -47,7 +61,13 @@ public:
gallery_row_major + static_cast<size_t>(n_gallery) * kDim)
{
host_sims_.resize(static_cast<size_t>(max_faces_) * n_gallery_);
std::cerr << "[similarity] CPU reference engine: gallery resident in host RAM ("
std::cerr << "[similarity] CPU engine ("
#if defined(SAE_GEMM_CBLAS)
<< "CBLAS"
#else
<< "scalar fallback — no CBLAS; expect poor scaling on a large gallery"
#endif
<< "): gallery resident in host RAM ("
<< (gallery_.size() * sizeof(float)) / (1024 * 1024) << " MiB)\n";
}
@@ -58,7 +78,18 @@ public:
if (n_faces > max_faces_)
throw std::runtime_error("SimilarityEngine: n_faces exceeds max_faces");
// S(g, f) col-major = dot(gallery[g], query[f]).
// S(g, f) col-major = dot(gallery[g], query[f]). Viewed as row-major
// [n_faces x n_gallery] that is exactly query * gallery^T, so it is one
// GEMM rather than a loop nest.
#if defined(SAE_GEMM_CBLAS)
cblas_sgemm(CblasRowMajor, CblasNoTrans, CblasTrans,
/*M=*/n_faces, /*N=*/n_gallery_, /*K=*/kDim,
/*alpha=*/1.0f,
query_row_major, /*lda=*/kDim,
gallery_.data(), /*ldb=*/kDim,
/*beta=*/0.0f,
host_sims_.data(), /*ldc=*/n_gallery_);
#else
for (int f = 0; f < n_faces; ++f) {
const float* q = query_row_major + static_cast<size_t>(f) * kDim;
float* out = host_sims_.data() + static_cast<size_t>(f) * n_gallery_;
@@ -69,6 +100,7 @@ public:
out[g] = acc;
}
}
#endif
return host_sims_.data();
}
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@@ -1,26 +1,144 @@
#pragma once
/// TRACES: AR-005 | SR-002
/// TRACES: AR-005, AR-030 | SR-002
#include "types.hpp"
#include <opencv2/calib3d.hpp>
#include <opencv2/core.hpp>
#include <opencv2/imgproc.hpp>
#include <cmath>
// ── align_face ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Produces a 112×112 BGR crop using the ArcFace 5-point similarity transform.
// Returns an empty Mat if the affine fit fails (degenerate detection).
inline cv::Mat align_face(const cv::Mat& img,
const std::array<cv::Point2f, 5>& landmarks) {
std::vector<cv::Point2f> src(landmarks.begin(), landmarks.end());
std::vector<cv::Point2f> dst(5);
// ── umeyama_similarity ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Closed-form least-squares similarity transform (rotation + uniform scale +
// translation, 4 DoF) mapping `src` onto `dst`, by Umeyama's solution.
//
// This is the estimator InsightFace aligns with — skimage's SimilarityTransform
// is `_umeyama(..., estimate_scale=True)` — and therefore the one that produced
// the crops ArcFace and LVFace were *trained* on. The canonical warp is part of
// the input distribution, not a free implementation choice (AR-011).
//
// Deliberately **not** `cv::estimateAffinePartial2D(..., cv::RANSAC)`:
//
// - A robust estimator earns a small residual by discarding the points that
// disagree with the model. On a turned face those are precisely the
// foreshortened landmarks — the pose signal AR-030 exists to measure. RANSAC
// would suppress exactly the quantity we want to read.
// - With five points and a two-point minimal sample there is almost no
// redundancy, so it cannot distinguish a mis-detected landmark from honest
// out-of-plane rotation. The robustness is nominal.
// - It is RNG-driven (`cv::theRNG()` is thread-local); this is exact, so
// replay determinism stops depending on thread scheduling.
//
// Returns an empty Mat when the source points are degenerate (all coincident).
inline cv::Mat umeyama_similarity(const std::array<cv::Point2f, 5>& src,
const std::array<cv::Point2f, 5>& dst) {
constexpr int N = 5;
double mu_sx = 0, mu_sy = 0, mu_dx = 0, mu_dy = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
mu_sx += src[i].x; mu_sy += src[i].y;
mu_dx += dst[i].x; mu_dy += dst[i].y;
}
mu_sx /= N; mu_sy /= N; mu_dx /= N; mu_dy /= N;
// var_src and the cross-covariance Σ = (1/N) Σ (d - μ_d)(s - μ_s)ᵀ
double var_s = 0;
cv::Matx22d sigma = cv::Matx22d::zeros();
for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
const double sx = src[i].x - mu_sx, sy = src[i].y - mu_sy;
const double dx = dst[i].x - mu_dx, dy = dst[i].y - mu_dy;
var_s += sx * sx + sy * sy;
sigma(0, 0) += dx * sx; sigma(0, 1) += dx * sy;
sigma(1, 0) += dy * sx; sigma(1, 1) += dy * sy;
}
var_s /= N;
sigma *= 1.0 / N;
if (var_s < 1e-12) return {}; // every source point coincides — no scale
cv::Mat w, u, vt;
cv::SVD::compute(cv::Mat(sigma), w, u, vt, cv::SVD::FULL_UV);
const cv::Matx22d U (u.at<double>(0,0), u.at<double>(0,1),
u.at<double>(1,0), u.at<double>(1,1));
const cv::Matx22d Vt(vt.at<double>(0,0), vt.at<double>(0,1),
vt.at<double>(1,0), vt.at<double>(1,1));
// A similarity may rotate but never mirror: if the fit came out
// orientation-reversing, flip the least-significant singular direction.
cv::Matx22d S = cv::Matx22d::eye();
if (cv::determinant(U) * cv::determinant(Vt) < 0) S(1, 1) = -1;
const cv::Matx22d R = U * S * Vt;
const double c = (w.at<double>(0) * S(0,0) + w.at<double>(1) * S(1,1)) / var_s;
cv::Mat M(2, 3, CV_64F);
M.at<double>(0,0) = c * R(0,0); M.at<double>(0,1) = c * R(0,1);
M.at<double>(1,0) = c * R(1,0); M.at<double>(1,1) = c * R(1,1);
M.at<double>(0,2) = mu_dx - c * (R(0,0) * mu_sx + R(0,1) * mu_sy);
M.at<double>(1,2) = mu_dy - c * (R(1,0) * mu_sx + R(1,1) * mu_sy);
return M;
}
// ── Alignment ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// The 5-point fit, plus what it could not explain.
//
// `residual` is the RMS landmark error in **canonical 112×112 pixels** after the
// best similarity fit. Two properties make it the AR-030 visibility measure:
//
// - The similarity transform absorbs rotation, uniform scale and translation
// exactly, so the residual is by construction the part of the deformation a
// similarity *cannot* explain — out-of-plane rotation and foreshortening,
// plus landmark noise. In-plane roll contributes nothing. The "roll must not
// read as yaw" failure is excluded structurally rather than by tuning.
// - The destination frame is fixed, so a 40 px face and a 400 px face are both
// measured in the same canonical space. The measure cannot silently
// re-express face size (already AR-002's job) the way a raw-pixel one would.
//
// It also responds to occlusion and to plainly broken landmark sets, which a
// yaw-angle estimator by construction does not.
struct Alignment {
cv::Mat M; ///< 2×3 CV_64F: source pixels → canonical 112×112
float residual{0.f}; ///< RMS canonical-pixel error; 0 ⇒ a perfect fit
bool ok{false}; ///< false ⇒ degenerate landmarks, no transform
};
/// Fit the canonical ArcFace template to `landmarks` and report the misfit.
inline Alignment estimate_alignment(const std::array<cv::Point2f, 5>& landmarks) {
std::array<cv::Point2f, 5> dst;
for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) dst[i] = {kArcFaceRef[i][0], kArcFaceRef[i][1]};
cv::Mat M = cv::estimateAffinePartial2D(src, dst, cv::noArray(), cv::RANSAC, 3.0);
if (M.empty()) return {};
Alignment a;
a.M = umeyama_similarity(landmarks, dst);
if (a.M.empty()) return a;
double sq = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
const double x = a.M.at<double>(0,0) * landmarks[i].x
+ a.M.at<double>(0,1) * landmarks[i].y + a.M.at<double>(0,2);
const double y = a.M.at<double>(1,0) * landmarks[i].x
+ a.M.at<double>(1,1) * landmarks[i].y + a.M.at<double>(1,2);
const double ex = x - dst[i].x, ey = y - dst[i].y;
sq += ex * ex + ey * ey;
}
a.residual = static_cast<float>(std::sqrt(sq / 5.0));
a.ok = true;
return a;
}
// ── align_face ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Produces a 112×112 BGR crop using the ArcFace 5-point similarity transform.
// Returns an empty Mat if the fit fails (degenerate detection). When
// `residual_out` is non-null it receives the AR-030 misfit for the same fit —
// free, since the transform has already been computed.
inline cv::Mat align_face(const cv::Mat& img,
const std::array<cv::Point2f, 5>& landmarks,
float* residual_out = nullptr) {
const Alignment a = estimate_alignment(landmarks);
if (!a.ok) return {};
if (residual_out) *residual_out = a.residual;
cv::Mat crop;
cv::warpAffine(img, crop, M, {112, 112},
cv::warpAffine(img, crop, a.M, {112, 112},
cv::INTER_LINEAR, cv::BORDER_CONSTANT, {0, 0, 0});
return crop;
}
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@@ -24,11 +24,15 @@ struct FaceAlignerFunc {
crops.reserve(sf.faces.size());
for (auto& face : sf.faces) {
cv::Mat crop = align_face(sf.source.image, face.landmarks);
// The AR-030 misfit comes from the transform the warp already needs,
// so visibility costs no extra fit.
float residual = -1.f;
cv::Mat crop = align_face(sf.source.image, face.landmarks, &residual);
if (crop.empty()) {
std::cerr << "[face_aligner] degenerate detection skipped\n";
continue;
}
face.alignment_residual = residual;
good_faces.push_back(face);
crops.push_back(std::move(crop));
}
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@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ struct DetectedFace {
cv::Rect2f bbox;
std::array<cv::Point2f, 5> landmarks;
float confidence{0.f};
// AR-030 visibility: RMS landmark misfit, in canonical 112×112 pixels, left
// over after the best similarity fit to the ArcFace template. Rises with
// out-of-plane pose and with occlusion; blind to in-plane roll and to face
// size, both of which the fit absorbs. Set by the aligner, which is where
// the transform is computed; -1 until then.
float alignment_residual{-1.f};
};
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