feat(quality): score every face on sharpness and alignment before it is evidence

Every embedding now carries the quality of the input it came from. Both
axes fall out of the AR-005 warp for free: crop_sharpness() is the
normalised Laplacian variance over the aligned 112x112, so contrast and
size cannot leak into it, and the alignment residual is the part of the
landmark deformation a similarity transform cannot explain, so in-plane
roll reads as zero and foreshortening does not.

Carried, not consumed. Nothing discounts or thresholds on either number
yet -- that is AR-030 and VR-012, and the knee has to be located against
recorded data before a gate is chosen. What this change buys is that the
data exists to locate it with.

No face is admitted unscored: the -1 sentinel is preserved rather than
clamped, and a degenerate landmark fit is counted rather than silently
dropped.

Takes the VR-001 dump to schema_version 2. The bump is not for readers,
which check for the datasets by name and replay a v1 dump unchanged; it
is so a consumer can tell "never scored" from "scored zero", which is
not recoverable from the arrays afterwards.

TRACES: AR-028, AR-029, AR-030 | VR-001 | SR-002
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#pragma once
#include "face_utils.hpp"
#include <cstdint>
#include <iostream>
// ── FaceAlignerFunc ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/// TRACES: AR-005, AR-030 | SR-002
/// TRACES: AR-005, AR-028, AR-029, AR-030 | SR-002
///
// KPN node: applies a 5-point similarity transform to each detected face,
// producing a 112×112 BGR crop suitable for ArcFace inference.
//
// Alignment is an Umeyama least-squares fit over all five landmarks (AR-005),
// not a robust one: a RANSAC fit discards the very landmarks AR-030 reads.
// Degenerate detections (where the fit fails) are dropped from the output
// vectors. The fit's residual is the AR-030 visibility measure and comes free,
// since the warp needs the transform anyway.
//
// This is also where the AR-028 quality vector is filled in, because this is
// where the inputs to it already exist:
//
// - **Visibility** (AR-030) is the fit's residual, and is genuinely free — the
// transform is computed for the warp regardless, and the residual is what
// that fit could not explain.
// - **Sharpness** (AR-029) is measured on the crop this node just produced,
// which is the only place it *can* be measured: the aligned canvas is what
// makes the number scale-normalised, and downstream of the embedder the crop
// is only forwarded for debug rendering. It is not free — 33 us per face
// single-threaded (cvtColor, one Laplacian, two meanStdDev over 112x112) —
// but it is two orders below the embedder inference it qualifies, and it
// runs per face rather than per frame, so a landscape shot costs nothing.
//
// Size, the third axis, is `bbox` and needs no work here.
//
// No face is admitted unscored: every face in the output carries both numbers,
// so a negative value downstream is a bug rather than a poor-quality face.
// Nothing is dropped or discounted on quality — that is AR-030's discount and
// VR-012's knee, both still open.
//
// Degenerate detections (where the fit fails) cannot be scored, since there is
// no crop and no residual to score, and are therefore dropped — but they are
// **counted**, not silently discarded. A nonzero tally means the detector is
// emitting landmark sets the aligner cannot use, which is a fact about the
// detector; losing it leaves a hole in the dump that looks like footage with
// no faces in it.
struct FaceAlignerFunc {
static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "face_aligner"; }
AlignedSceneFrame operator()(SceneFrame sf) {
if (sf.source.eof || sf.faces.empty())
if (sf.source.eof) {
report();
return {std::move(sf.source), {}, {}};
}
if (sf.faces.empty())
return {std::move(sf.source), {}, {}};
std::vector<DetectedFace> good_faces;
@@ -33,15 +63,38 @@ struct FaceAlignerFunc {
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";
++degenerate_;
continue;
}
face.alignment_residual = residual;
face.sharpness = crop_sharpness(crop);
good_faces.push_back(face);
crops.push_back(std::move(crop));
++scored_;
}
return {std::move(sf.source), std::move(good_faces), std::move(crops)};
}
/// Faces that carry a full quality vector, and faces the fit could not use.
uint64_t scored() const { return scored_; }
uint64_t degenerate() const { return degenerate_; }
private:
// Reported once at EOF rather than per occurrence: a run with a systematic
// landmark problem would otherwise emit one line per face for the length of
// a film, which is how the count came to be ignored.
void report() {
if (reported_) return;
reported_ = true;
if (degenerate_)
std::cerr << "[face_aligner] " << degenerate_ << " of "
<< (degenerate_ + scored_)
<< " detections had a degenerate landmark fit and were dropped"
" (no crop, so no embedding and no quality vector)\n";
}
uint64_t scored_{0};
uint64_t degenerate_{0};
bool reported_{false};
};