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 dtourolle
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fix(AR-013): reap tracks on the evidence watermark, not the tracker's clock
The registry closed a track when the *tracker's* timestamp passed `track_extinction_sec`. But votes arrive from the matcher, which is a separate KPN node behind a channel, and much the slower of the pair. Backpressure — working exactly as AR-004 intends — turns that channel's depth into lag, so the tracker's clock can be far ahead of the last frame anybody has voted on. Tracks were therefore closed before their evidence arrived: the votes landed on ids that no longer existed, were counted as dropped, and the track was emitted unowned or not at all. The symptom is the part worth remembering: **a deeper channel produced fewer identifications, from identical input.** On the SuperHero fixture, 5 actors / 16 windows at depth 32 against 3 actors / 5 windows at depth 10322; through the replay harness, capacity 32 gave 5 actors and 10322 gave 0. A throughput knob was silently changing the answer, which makes every sweep tuned against it suspect. The fix is not to bound the channel against `track_extinction_sec` — that makes an algorithm constant police a throughput knob and leaves the result a function of scheduling. It is to reap on an evidence watermark: the matcher advances it as it folds each frame in, and a track is only finished once everything up to its extinction point has actually been voted on. Same device `SceneBoundaries::scored_through()` uses for the AR-010 join — a consumer past that point is asking about frames nobody has looked at yet, and the honest answer is to wait rather than guess. Association keeps the tracker's clock, and separating the two is the other half. They answer different questions: "may this detection link to that track?" is asked now, about a box seen `track_extinction_sec` ago; "is that track finished?" cannot be answered until every vote is in. Deferring association to the evidence clock — which deferring the erase alone did — left retired tracks associable for as long as the matcher lagged, so a new face re-associated onto a long-dead track and two people merged into one window. The watermark is monotonic and only ever *delays* a reap, so no window is extended by it: AR-013's "a window ends at the last sighting, never after" is a property of `emit_locked`, which takes `last_seen` and never `now`. `dropped_votes` is exposed and reported — by main at shutdown and through the replay bindings — because this failed silently for as long as it did precisely because nothing counted it. It warns rather than aborts: a dropped frame means the output describes footage nobody analysed and is always wrong, while a dropped vote degrades a claim without falsifying it, and there is no measurement yet of how often it happens on real content. replay.py's channel capacity stops being the whole film. It was sized that way to dodge a PyNode overflow drop that AR-004 has since replaced with parking, and removing backpressure that way is what made the defect above so extreme. Tag separators in kpn_bindings.cpp corrected to pipes between requirement types, which the traceability gate was reporting as diagnostics; the matrix is regenerated and reports 0 orphan tags. 149/149. TRACES: AR-004, AR-012, AR-013, AR-025 | VR-011 | SR-002 | PR-002 |
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dtourolle
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refactor(presence): execute the extinction_sec/anneal_sec withdrawal
docs/SPEC.md specified this removal, listed its parts, and ended "grep
for both names and expect no survivors". There were about forty.
docs/requirements.md meanwhile recorded both constants as Withdrawn and
"deleted rather than retained at zero", on the grounds that a field
naming a mechanism the pipeline no longer has is actively misleading.
Neither statement was true of the code: Config still carried
extinction_sec 57.4 and anneal_sec 35.5, --extinction and --anneal still
parsed, and SceneTrackerFunc still ran its keep-alive in both shipped
pipelines, announcing its timeout at every startup.
SceneTrackerFunc is replaced by FrameAnnotationFunc, which is stateless:
same ports, same output type, no keep-alive. Presence belongs to
TrackRegistry (AR-012), where a window is the extent of a track an actor
owned and ends at the last sighting (AR-013). The keep-alive answered
that question a second time and answered it worse, by re-opening exactly
the trailing cool-down AR-013 refuses.
Visible change: --verbosity standard's frames[].identified listed every
actor inside the keep-alive, including ones absent from the frame. It
now lists what was matched in that frame. Minimal and xray output is
untouched -- both were already built from registry claims and never
consulted this node. No schema bump: the published extraction block
reports track_extinction_sec, a different knob that bounds
re-association and never extends a claim.
TrackRegistry::Config::extinction_sec is renamed track_extinction_sec to
match the Config field feeding it, so the grep SPEC.md asks for now
returns nothing rather than one confusing false positive.
Two targets turned out to have been silently dead, both since the
AR-007/AR-008 tracker redesign, and both for the same reason -- they
construct FaceTrackerFunc from a Config alone, a signature that stopped
existing when association moved into probability space:
- scene_preview is fixed here. It now mirrors main.cpp's construction
order exactly (matcher, then registry, then tracker) and wires the
registry's claims into the sink, which it was not doing. DP-001 says
modes are front-ends that must not fork pipeline logic; this one had
forked it and then rotted.
- sae_kpn is not fixed. Restructuring the seam so the tracker can reach
a calibration that only exists once the matcher is built is VR-011's
rewrite, not a patch, and presence claims do not cross the seam at all
today. It is now behind SAE_BUILD_KPN_BINDINGS=OFF with the reason
recorded, so `cmake --build` succeeds and the breakage is attributed
rather than rediscovered.
That second one is worth stating plainly: VR-002 ("replay drives the
real KPN nodes, not a reimplementation") is marked Done, and the module
that makes replay possible has not compiled for some time. The .so in a
stale build/ predates the change.
Python side: the two names are gone from optimize.py, replay.py and
run_holdout_all_models.py as Config keys. anneal_sec survives as
REPLAY_LOCAL_KEYS -- it still configures replay.py's own windowing,
which is a Python reimplementation that no longer matches the sink and
is documented as such. That divergence is VR-011's.
TRACES: AR-012, AR-013 | DP-001 | SR-002
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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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843852e19c |
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 |