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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 ddb748eecb feat: gallery build report
GR-003 — the calibration fit already computed per-actor dedup counts, how many
actors are eligible for positive pairs, and a 200-bin histogram of the intra and
inter distributions, then discarded all of it to stderr. Nothing persisted, so
nobody could audit whether a gallery was any good.

The report is written alongside the gallery at build time. That is the right
moment: the matcher fits the same sigmoid at analysis time, but by then the
answer is per-run and nobody is looking, whereas build time is when a gallery's
quality is actually decided.

What it surfaces, in order of usefulness:
- actors with no usable image — a silent recall ceiling, since the pipeline can
  never name them and nothing else says why
- actors below the positive-pair threshold — not broken, so nothing complains;
  they just quietly weaken every threshold downstream
- near-duplicate references removed, per actor and total
- the fitted calibration AND the two distributions behind it

That last one is the point. Every threshold in the pipeline is expressed in the
probability space this sigmoid defines, so if the distributions overlap heavily
the calibration is weak and every downstream decision inherits it — while the
gallery still looks fine from the outside.

The gallery-derived prior, intra/(intra+inter), is computed and reported but the
shipped default of 0.5 is deliberately left alone. The spec records these as
disagreeing; now the real value is visible, so the decision can be made on
evidence rather than argument.

Three tests: a zero-image actor is visible in the report, an under-referenced
actor is counted, and the report round-trips through JSON.

Suite: 95 cases, 6142 assertions.

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

TRACES: GR-003 | SR-001
2026-07-31 15:30:46 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 6da8ac2bdb 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
2026-07-31 15:04:29 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 cd62d6452d test: replay the real tracker and registry from committed fixtures
Tier T2 — composition rather than units. The registry tests construct awkward
states directly; these feed the pieces real 480x360 footage with the cuts, gaps
and crowded frames that synthetic input does not produce.

Six cases:
- fixture integrity: exact frame and face counts, contiguous face_offset, and
  the embedder identity each dump carries (GR-004). The counts are asserted
  exactly rather than approximately, which was impossible before AR-004 — what
  a lossy run dropped depended on timing.
- determinism: replaying a fixture twice gives identical track ids and windows.
  This is the property the whole fixture strategy rests on; without it every
  golden output derived from a fixture is unreliable and the CI replay tier is
  worthless.
- every face is assigned a track, and flush leaves nothing open — a track still
  live at EOF is a window that never reaches the output.
- windows are well-formed and inside the clip. A window ends at the last
  sighting, so it can never extend past the footage that produced it.
- a longer extinction window yields fewer, longer tracks. On the sparse fixture
  (140 faces over 385 frames) that is the difference the constant actually
  makes: absorbing a gap versus splitting a window.
- the cut-heavy fixture still contains cuts. This guards the corpus, not the
  code: a regeneration that produced cut-free fixtures would leave the
  association tests passing while silently testing nothing.

Driving the functors directly rather than through a KPN network is deliberate —
no threads, no channels, no scheduling, so the same input gives the same output.

Suite: 86 cases, 6106 assertions.

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

TRACES: AR-004, AR-012, AR-013, VR-001, VR-002 | SR-002
2026-07-31 11:23:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b5c7d4f6d9 test: committed replay fixtures from the public-domain corpus
Five HDF5 embedding dumps from bali/ — Road to Bali (1952) — 3.6 MB total,
generated at 5 fps with a 32 px minimum face. CI never calls a model, so
inference happens on a GPU host and CI replays these as data; everything
downstream of embedding is cheap CPU maths.

Public domain is the reason this corpus rather than a convenient one: derived
fixtures can be committed, where anything cut from a copyrighted title could not
live in the repository at all.

The set covers distinct behaviours rather than being five of the same thing:
bali_28 has 9 cuts, so it exercises shot/reverse-shot association (AR-007);
bali_46 is sparse at 140 faces over 385 frames, so it exercises gaps and
extinction (AR-013); bali_13 is the busiest at 4 faces per frame; bali_31 is
short at 29s. All five recorded zero drops.

Both pinned parameters are consequences of measurements, not defaults: 5 fps
because 1 fps over a 77s clip is 77 frames, too thin for an extinction window
measured in tens of seconds; 32 px because that is the VR-005 floor, and the
corpus is 480x360 so a stricter value would reject most of what is there.

make_fixtures.sh regenerates them. Reproducibility is the requirement — a
fixture whose provenance is unknown is worse than none, because it will be
trusted. These are byte-reproducible only because of AR-004: before node
outputs blocked rather than dropped, the same command produced different dumps
run to run.

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

TRACES: VR-001 | PR-002
2026-07-31 10:41:51 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 e9aea3fc41 feat: tracker owns no state; association is frame-dependent and calibrated
Three requirements land together because they cannot be separated. The
cross-cut revival branch was the only user of cut_revive_sim, so retiring that
raw cosine forces the pool collapse, and collapsing the pool removes the only
caller of the constant. Splitting them would have produced an intermediate
commit whose only purpose was to be split.

AR-008 — FaceTrackerFunc no longer keeps its own tracks_/inactive_ maps; it
holds a shared_ptr<TrackRegistry> and operates on it directly. Two parallel
copies of track state could disagree, and every divergence would surface as a
wrong presence window with nothing to indicate it. There is now ONE candidate
pool: last_seen alone says whether IoU is meaningful. The park/revive path is
deleted outright — matching a dormant track is ordinary inter-frame
association, and continuity falls out of the embedding comparison the tracker
already did rather than being a mechanism of its own.

AR-007 — track_alpha becomes the base weight for ordinary frames only.
Association drops to embedding-only when position carries no information:
on is_cut or is_scene_boundary, because the viewpoint changed, and for a
dormant track, because time has passed since its box was last valid. The second
case matters as much as the first and had no equivalent before.

AR-024 — association cost is a calibrated probability, never a raw cosine. The
tracker takes the calibration belonging to the active embedder, the same
function object EvidenceDiscounter uses. track_max_embed_dist becomes
track_assoc_min_prob, which means the same thing for every model, gallery and
face size, where a bare cosine threshold did not.

Retired: track_max_embed_dist, cut_revive_sim, cut_inactive_max_frames, and
track_max_frames_missing — the last superseded by the registry's extinction
window. That one is worth naming: a frame count silently changed meaning with
sample_fps, so the same configuration behaved differently at 1 fps and 5 fps.
Extinction is in seconds and lives in one place.

Tests rewritten rather than deleted. The old cases asserted revival by raw
cosine; the same behaviours are now asserted through the registry — a face lost
across a cut and re-associated is the SAME track, one unbroken window, and a
face returning past the extinction window is not. Added the case AR-007 exists
for: two people swap screen positions across a cut while keeping their faces,
and identity must follow the embedding rather than the box.

Suite: 80 cases, 3250 assertions.

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

TRACES: AR-007, AR-008, AR-024 | SR-002
2026-07-31 09:58:27 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 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
2026-07-31 09:15:44 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f0c7126f80 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
2026-07-31 09:08:39 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 908d166173 feat: bind galleries to the embedder that built them
GR-004 — a gallery built with one embedding model is meaningless with another.
Cosine similarities across models are garbage but look entirely plausible, so
this fails silently and expensively; every measurement taken against a
mismatched pair would have been quietly wrong.

The stamp is the model basename plus a SHA-256 of its bytes, with embed_dim as
a cheap extra guard. The hash decides and the name explains, because neither
works alone: a name is a promise rather than a fact — models get re-exported in
place under an unchanged filename, which is exactly the case where the weights
differ and nothing else does — while a bare hash mismatch tells an operator
nothing actionable.

Mismatch is fatal in every mode with no bypass. Unstamped only warns, because
unstamped is unknown rather than known-bad, and an error firing on every legacy
gallery trains people to reach for the bypass reflexively. scripts/stamp_gallery.py
binds an existing gallery in place with no re-embedding, so the warning is a
migration step rather than a permanent state; --require-gallery-stamp promotes
it to an error once a site has migrated.

Two gaps found that would have defeated the requirement outright:

- Embedding dumps carried no stamp, so a replay — which has no live embedder —
  had nothing to check the gallery against. Dumps now carry embedder_model and
  embedder_sha256 as root attributes. Additive; schema_version stays 1. This is
  the same gap the dump audit identified independently.
- --merge produced one file holding two embedding spaces, which no later check
  can untangle. Merge paths now verify before writing.

The stamp also survives identity_matcher's calibration write-back, which would
otherwise have stripped it on the first analysis run — the check would have
worked exactly once.

Conflicts resolved additively: both branches appended a source to sae_gallery
and to the test target, and both edited the GR-004 register row.

Merged suite: 64 cases, 3199 assertions, passing on CPU with no GPU.

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

TRACES: GR-004, VR-001 | SR-001
2026-07-30 19:04:07 +02:00
Claude 7db40f430d GR-004: bind galleries to the embedder that built them
A gallery is only valid for the embedder that produced its vectors. Cosine
similarities across models are meaningless but *look* plausible, so the mistake
is silent and every measurement taken afterwards is suspect. Stamp the embedder
identity into the gallery at build; verify it at every load.

The stamp is the model file's basename plus the SHA-256 of its bytes (plus
embed_dim). The hash decides, the name explains. A name alone is a promise
rather than a fact — models get re-exported and overwritten in place under an
unchanged filename, which is exactly the case where the weights differ and
nothing else does. A hash alone is correct but unactionable in an error message.
SHA-256 is derived from the artefact, needs no registry kept current, and costs
~0.1s for a 250MB ONNX, memoised per process.

Mismatch is a hard error in every mode, with no bypass, naming both sides.

Unstamped legacy galleries warn loudly and proceed: unknown is not known-bad,
and hard-failing every pre-existing gallery would turn the check into something
people disable rather than trust. --require-gallery-stamp (or
SAE_REQUIRE_GALLERY_STAMP=1, which propagates to subprocesses) promotes that to
a hard error — the mode measurement work should run in. scripts/stamp_gallery.py
re-binds an existing gallery with no re-embedding, so "warn" is a cheap state to
leave rather than a permanent one.

Embedding dumps carry the same stamp: a replay has no live embedder, so the dump
is the embedder as far as the gallery is concerned. Derived galleries inherit
their source's stamp; --merge and the JSON gallery merge check before writing,
since one file holding two embedding spaces cannot be untangled afterwards.

Verified in: scene_analyze, scene_preview, the sae_kpn matcher binding,
replay.py, optimize.py (once per film at startup, before the first evaluation),
movienet_eval.py and both merge paths.

Stamp logic lives in src/gallery/embedder_stamp.{hpp,cpp} and its Python twin
scripts/sae_stamp.py, kept dependency-light so replay subprocesses do not pay
sae_gallery's requests/Pillow import to ask whether two models match.

Tests: 12 new cases in test_gallery_store.cpp covering the comparison logic,
both round trips, and the SHA-256 vectors that guarantee the C++ and hashlib
stamps agree. No ONNX or GPU required.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 18:35:46 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 45ef7c1916 Add the v1 audio signature to the pipeline (IR-004, IR-005, IR-007, IR-008)
Implements the content-derived spectral-peak signature from
JRay-public-server/SPEC.md §3 so a truth file is self-identifying: 120 s
window centred on the media midpoint, mono at 11025 Hz, 4096/1024 Hann
STFT, 32 log-spaced bins over 300-3000 Hz, one byte per frame (5-bit peak
band + 2-bit energy class), base64, `v1:` prefix.

Audio decode is a second stream from the FFmpeg libraries the pipeline
already links for video; libswresample is added to the existing
ffmpeg_libs interface target. The FFT is written out rather than pulled
from a library for the same reason the plugin vendors one: the output has
to be bit-identical across two languages, so a dependency whose version
could change the numerics is a liability.

The server spec fixes the geometry but not enough to reproduce a byte
stream — Hann periodicity, band aggregation, the energy-class definition,
tie-breaking and the base64 alphabet are all unconstrained by it. Those
are pinned in audio_signature.hpp and mirrored in the golden fixture, so
the plugin can be implemented from the fixture alone.

IR-005: tests/fixtures/audio/ carries a deterministic 120 s tone (FLAC —
lossless, so identical PCM to the WAV make_fixture.py emits, and 3.5x
smaller in git) plus the signature it must produce, the decoded-PCM
checksum and the full parameter contract. That directory is the artefact
shared with the plugin repo; the PCM checksum is separate from the
signature so a codec-level difference is distinguishable from a DSP one.

IR-007: media under 120 s emits no signature. Same for a file with no
audio stream or one that will not open — UR-9 is an enhancement and must
never be able to break a fetch.

Verified against an independent Python reference implementation: same
bytes. All 32 bands and all 4 energy classes appear in the golden vector,
and the window-centring test wraps the fixture in 90 s of silence either
side and requires the golden value back.

Not wired into the truth-file output yet — that is the schema_version
bump under IR-002/IR-003 and is deliberately out of scope here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 18:25:37 +02:00
dtourolle 76df2f66aa test: add Catch2 unit test suite (gallery, calibration, tracking, similarity)
GPU-free, model-free tests for the pure logic: gallery HDF5 save/load
round-trips (actors, embeddings, embedded calibration) and legacy JSON
read back-compat; the calibration sigmoid fit, boundary inversion, and the
in-memory hash-keyed cache reuse/staleness; TrackGallery's diversity-buffer
eviction, novelty/spread safety gates, and promotion; FaceTracker's IoU/
embedding association and cross-cut track revival; and the GEMM similarity
backend (forced to CPU so the suite runs without a GPU).

Verified: all 39 test cases / 1640 assertions pass (cmake -DSAE_BUILD_TESTS=ON).
2026-07-19 19:10:57 +02:00