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  dtourolleandClaude Opus 5
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fix: belief accumulates across frames (lazy-OR), not once
A track recognised on 318 of 385 frames was owned on none, so the truth file named nobody while the matcher was accepting almost continuously. The correlation discount was an annihilator rather than an attenuator. Weight was 1 - P(same view), so once a track had one stored view every later frame of that same face scored ~0.01 and the belief stopped moving. One observation just over the accept threshold is logit(0.78) ~ 1.27, under the ownership bar — hence recognised always, owned never. Two changes, in the order they were found. Correlated evidence is now attenuated by effective sample size, n_eff = n / (1 + (n-1)·rho), each frame contributing the marginal gain. That has the right shape at both ends: uncorrelated evidence accumulates linearly, and a held pose converges on 1/rho rather than growing without bound. A constant floor was tried first and rejected — it grows linearly forever, so a long shot could out-argue genuinely varied evidence purely by lasting longer. Combination is now weighted lazy-OR: P = 1 - (1-P_old)·(1-p)^w, stored as log(1-P) so the update is additive and precision stays where it matters as P approaches 1. Each frame is new evidence that this track is that actor, and the belief is the probability that at least one sighting was right. It converges faster than summing log-odds at the same effective count — 2.98 vs 2.53 after two observations at p=0.78 — which is what a real clip needs. Note that summing log-odds was already a correct sequential Bayesian update: the matcher fits with prior 0.5, so logit(p) IS the per-frame log-likelihood ratio and the running sum carries the prior forward. It was not wrong, it was slow. What blocked ownership was the discount, not the combination rule. Also fixes a real correctness bug: the observation count lived on the discounter, which is shared by every track, so tracks pooled into one effective sample and each was discounted by how many others happened to be on screen. It is now a per-track parameter. The registry's frame scope holds its lock for its lifetime and the mutex is not recursive, so calling observe() inside a scope self-deadlocks. The pipeline never does — separate nodes — but the test did, and hung rather than failing. Documented at the call site. Verified end to end: the same clip that produced zero actors now identifies Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour with belief 0.97. Suite: 96 cases, 6142 assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> TRACES: AR-025 | SR-002 |
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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5
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feat: registry owns correlation discounting (AR-024, AR-025)
Moves two responsibilities inside the registry that callers should never have been trusted with. AR-025 — per-frame evidence is discounted for correlation by the registry itself, via EvidenceDiscounter. Log-odds accumulation is only valid for independent observations, and consecutive frames of one track are anything but: near-identical pose, lighting and expression. Accumulated naively, thirty frames of the same face at the same angle drive the posterior to certainty on what is effectively one measurement. Each observation is weighted by how much it adds — a view already contributed counts for ~nothing, a genuinely new pose counts in full. This reuses the novelty judgement gallery expansion already makes rather than inventing a second one. The discounter is a separate class the registry holds, so it stays testable and swappable, but it is a constructor argument rather than an option: there is no correct way to accumulate without it. AR-024 — observe() takes a calibrated probability and converts to log-odds internally. A caller can no longer hand it a raw cosine, which would have been silently wrong rather than obviously so. Retiring the remaining raw-cosine constants in the tracker is still open. DeadTrack now reports effective_obs alongside observations: the raw count and the evidence that actually counted. A large gap between them is a track the camera stared at, and worth seeing. Three tests, one of which is the point: two tracks given the same number of observations at the same posterior, one repeating a single view and one seeing eight distinct ones, must not end up equally confident. Without discounting they would be identical. Fixed a test that asserted a belief swap on tied evidence. A tie leaves ownership where it is — a challenger must out-accumulate the incumbent, since one contrary observation is noise. The original test passed only because it fed raw log-odds directly. Suite: 78 cases, 3245 assertions. Coverage 20/63 to 22/63. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> TRACES: AR-024, AR-025 | SR-002 |
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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5
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feat: TrackRegistry — presence follows track extent
The spine of the redesign. Presence is now the extent of a track an actor owns, [first_seen, last_seen], rather than the subset of frames in which recognition happened to succeed. An actor recognised only at the end of a long track is present for all of it, which is what the scene-scoped ground truth actually records. AR-013 — `last_seen` as an optional carries the entire liveness state: unset means on screen, set means went off at that timestamp and still revivable, reaped means emitted and erased. No missing-frame counter, no expired flag. It subsumes the tracker's existing two-pool split, so there is no separate revival path — matching a dormant track is ordinary inter-frame association. The asymmetry is the point: interior gaps are claimed, the trailing cool-down is not. A face lost and re-associated within the timeout never closed its track, so the gap is presence — someone briefly occluded has not left the scene. But a track that dies ends at its last sighting, never at the death time. That is precisely the over-claim the retired extinction_sec keep-alive produced, where presence ran on into the closing credits. AR-014 — a belief swap A→B closes the track and opens a successor at the swap frame. Not a correction: two non-twins both clearing the threshold on one face is not realistic, whereas a track_id carried across a viewpoint change onto a different person is. Treating it as a swap-and-continue would emit one window blending two people; treating it as a boundary yields two that are each right. AR-015 — two live tracks owned by one actor means at least one is wrong, since a person cannot be in two places at once. A reverse index catches it on the update that causes it rather than by scanning. This makes identity a third cut detector, independent of the histogram and TransNetV2 and firing where those failed. AR-016 — flush() closes tracks still live at EOF. Without it a film ending mid-shot silently drops its closing cast, which presents as a recognition miss rather than a bookkeeping bug. Reaping hands the dead track to the aggregator and erases it, so the registry holds only live tracks and its size is bounded by concurrent on-screen faces rather than growing with the film. Locking: a frame's association pass is atomic as a unit via FrameScope, since per-call locking would let another thread observe a half-updated frame. owner() reads tally and verdict under one lock — separately, a track could be both unowned and owned within a single promotion decision. A vote for an already-reaped track is dropped and counted, because a nonzero count means the timeout is shorter than the matcher's lag. 11 unit tests, driven directly against the registry with no network and no fixture — the awkward cases are constructed rather than hunted for. Suite: 75 cases, 3236 assertions. Coverage 14/63 to 20/63. Not yet wired into FaceTrackerFunc; that is AR-007/AR-008. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> TRACES: AR-012, AR-013, AR-014, AR-015, AR-016, AR-017 | SR-002 |