AR-018 — an embedding joins a track's store only if its similarity to something
already there falls inside a band, rather than merely being far from the gallery.
Above the upper bound it is redundant: another look at a pose the store already
covers, teaching the annex nothing while costing a slot a novel view could have
used. Below the lower bound it is suspect: within one track every face is the
same person by construction, so an embedding unlike everything else on the track
is evidence that construction failed — a track-ID collision or a bad detection.
Admitting it is exactly how an actor's annex gets poisoned with someone else's
face.
The old gate had only the upper half of that idea, expressed as a raw cosine
against the gallery. Both bounds are now calibrated probabilities (AR-024), so
the same number means the same thing here as in association and evidence
weighting rather than three different things.
This catches track-ID collisions EARLIER than the spread gate did — at the door
rather than at promotion — so the buffer never becomes two-person in the first
place. The spread gate stays as a second line for a track that drifts gradually
instead of jumping. The existing test was asserting the mechanism rather than
the outcome, so it was rewritten to assert what actually matters: whichever gate
fires, the outsider must not reach the annex.
Rejections are counted. A store that admits nothing is as broken as one that
admits everything, and neither is visible otherwise.
Band defaults 0.90-0.95 are working values pending VR-007; the two bounds fail in
opposite directions and must be swept separately.
Suite: 92 cases, 6133 assertions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TRACES: AR-018, AR-024 | SR-005
New C++ sources:
- kpn_bindings.cpp (sae_kpn): assembles the real face_tracker/identity_matcher/
scene_tracker nodes inside a Python-driven KPN network via nanobind, for
offline threshold-sweep replay against dumped embeddings (scripts/optimizer/).
- track_gallery.hpp: per-film gallery expansion — promotes a confidently-
identified track's novel-pose reference views into an in-memory annex so
later frames/tracks of that actor at similar poses are recognised, without
touching the baked gallery.
- dump_embeddings.cpp: standalone exe that runs detect→embed only (no gallery,
no matching) and dumps per-frame face embeddings + metadata to HDF5, so a
parameter sweep can replay the expensive half once and vary tracking/matching
config freely downstream.
- scene_detector.hpp / scene_detector_node.hpp: TransNetV2-based shot-boundary
detection, opt-in alongside the always-on histogram cut detector.
- camera_position_change_detector_node.hpp, embedding_dump_node.hpp: supporting
nodes for the above.
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5