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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 042e424961 study(VR-005): minimum face size from downscaled gallery mugshots
Holds out one mugshot per actor, degrades that probe to each candidate
face size and matches it against a gallery held at native resolution,
reporting TPI/FPI per size. Replaces AR-002's 66x66 px working estimate
with a measurement. Needs no video and no ground truth beyond the
mugshot cache already on disk.

LVFace-B over 258 actors, 999 gallery embeddings, threshold 0.754:

    px    12    16    20    24    32    40   48+
   TPI   6.6% 46.5% 81.8% 93.4% 98.1% 99.2% 99.2%

FPI is 0.000 at every size — a face too small to identify degrades to
unidentified, never to a wrong name. rank-1 holds at >=99.6% from 24 px
up, so what fails first is the calibrated probability crossing
threshold, not the ranking.

Two limits on reading this. FPI grows with the number of actors
competing, so 258 understates it against a production library. And
detection and alignment run on the native image with only the resulting
112x112 crop degraded, so landmark error at small face sizes is excluded
by construction and the curve is an upper bound — VR-010 measures the
same question end to end, and lands well above these numbers.

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

TRACES: VR-005 | AR-002
2026-07-31 15:17:39 +02:00
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