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dtourolle 24d35cbde3 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.

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TRACES: AR-004, AR-012, AR-013, AR-025 | VR-011 | SR-002 | PR-002
2026-08-08 12:08:15 +02:00

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// Unit tests for TrackRegistry (track_registry.hpp): presence as track extent.
//
// TRACES: AR-012, AR-013, AR-014, AR-015, AR-016, AR-017 | UT-001
//
// Pure, GPU-free, model-free — drives the registry directly with synthetic
// timestamps and evidence. Node functors and this registry are plain objects
// constructed outside the KPN network, so the awkward cases can be built
// exactly rather than hunted for in a clip: a gap one frame under the timeout,
// a belief swap, two live tracks converging on one actor, a film ending
// mid-track.
#include <catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp>
#include "track_registry.hpp"
#include "evidence_discount.hpp"
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
namespace {
Embedding axis(int slot) {
Embedding e{};
e[slot] = 1.0f;
return e;
}
// Collects the claims a registry emits, which is the whole observable output.
struct Sink {
std::vector<DeadTrack> claims;
void attach(TrackRegistry& r) {
r.on_track_dead([this](const DeadTrack& d) { claims.push_back(d); });
}
const DeadTrack* forActor(int a) const {
for (const auto& c : claims) if (c.actor_idx == a) return &c;
return nullptr;
}
};
// A discounter whose calibration is deliberately trivial, so the tests exercise
// registry behaviour rather than a fitted sigmoid.
EvidenceDiscounter disc() {
return EvidenceDiscounter([](float cos) { return std::max(0.f, cos); });
}
TrackRegistry::Config cfg(double extinction = 5.0, float own = 2.0f) {
TrackRegistry::Config c;
c.track_extinction_sec = extinction;
c.ownership_logodds = own;
return c;
}
} // namespace
// ── AR-012 — the change this whole redesign exists for ───────────────────────
TEST_CASE("window starts at first sighting, not at first recognition", "[registry][AR-012]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(10.0); id = f.create(10.0, axis(0)); }
// Seen for 20s but only recognised at the very end — the pose was wrong
// until then. This is the case the old per-frame design got wrong: it would
// have reported presence starting at 30, not 10.
for (double t = 11.0; t <= 30.0; t += 1.0) {
auto f = reg.begin_frame(t);
f.mark_seen(id, t, axis(0));
}
reg.observe(id, 7, 0.99f, axis(7));
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(31.0); f.mark_lost(id, 30.0); }
reg.tick(40.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == 7);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].first_seen == 10.0); // ← not 30.0
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 30.0);
}
// ── AR-013 — the asymmetry that removes the old over-claim ───────────────────
TEST_CASE("interior gaps are absorbed; the trailing cool-down is not",
"[registry][AR-013]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(/*extinction=*/5.0), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 3, 0.99f, axis(3));
// Off screen at 10, back at 13 — inside the timeout, so the same track
// continues and the actor is claimed present *through* the gap.
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(10.0); f.mark_lost(id, 10.0); }
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(13.0); f.mark_seen(id, 13.0, axis(0)); }
CHECK(sink.claims.empty()); // nothing closed
CHECK(reg.live() == 1);
// Lost for good at 20. The window must end there, not at the death time.
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(20.0); f.mark_lost(id, 20.0); }
reg.tick(20.0 + 5.0 + 0.001);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].first_seen == 0.0);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 20.0); // ← not 25.001
}
TEST_CASE("a gap past the timeout yields two tracks, not one", "[registry][AR-013]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(/*extinction=*/5.0), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int a;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); a = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(a, 1, 0.99f, axis(1));
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(10.0); f.mark_lost(a, 10.0); }
reg.tick(30.0); // well past extinction
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 10.0);
// A face reappearing after the timeout is genuinely a new track: past the
// re-acquisition window there are no grounds to assert continuity.
int b;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(31.0); b = f.create(31.0, axis(0)); }
CHECK(b != a);
}
// ── AR-016 — the silent-loss guard ───────────────────────────────────────────
TEST_CASE("EOF flush closes tracks still on screen", "[registry][AR-016]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(100.0); id = f.create(100.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 5, 0.99f, axis(5));
// A film almost always ends with faces on screen; these have not timed out.
reg.flush(/*final_ts=*/120.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == 5);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 120.0);
sink.claims.clear();
reg.flush(130.0);
CHECK(sink.claims.empty()); // idempotent
CHECK(reg.live() == 0);
}
TEST_CASE("flush closes a lost-but-unreaped track at its last sighting",
"[registry][AR-016]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(/*extinction=*/60.0), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 2, 0.99f, axis(2));
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(10.0); f.mark_lost(id, 10.0); }
reg.flush(/*final_ts=*/50.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 10.0); // last sighting, not EOF
}
// ── AR-014 — belief swap is a track boundary, not a correction ───────────────
TEST_CASE("belief swap closes one window and opens another", "[registry][AR-014]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 1, 0.99f, axis(1)); // owned by actor 1
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(5.0); f.mark_lost(id, 5.0); }
// The swap must out-accumulate the incumbent, not merely tie it: one
// contrary observation is noise, and a tie leaves ownership where it is.
reg.observe(id, 2, 0.99f, axis(2));
reg.observe(id, 2, 0.99f, axis(3));
CHECK(reg.belief_swaps() == 1);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 5.0); // closed at its last sighting
// The successor is a distinct track, so nothing blends the two people.
reg.flush(9.0);
const DeadTrack* second = sink.forActor(2);
REQUIRE(second != nullptr);
CHECK(second->track_id != id);
CHECK(second->first_seen == 5.0); // abuts, does not overlap
}
// ── AR-015 — identity contradiction as a cut detector ────────────────────────
TEST_CASE("two live tracks owned by one actor is counted", "[registry][AR-015]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int a, b;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); a = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); b = f.create(0.0, axis(1)); }
reg.observe(a, 9, 0.99f, axis(9));
CHECK(reg.actor_conflicts() == 0);
// One person cannot be in two places at once, so this is a missed camera or
// scene change that split them — detected on the update that causes it.
reg.observe(b, 9, 0.99f, axis(9));
CHECK(reg.actor_conflicts() == 1);
}
// ── AR-017 / diagnostics ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
TEST_CASE("an unowned track emits no claim", "[registry][AR-012]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 4, 0.62f, axis(4)); // never clears the ownership threshold
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(1.0); f.mark_lost(id, 1.0); }
reg.tick(100.0);
// Someone was there, but nothing can be claimed about who.
CHECK(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == -1);
}
TEST_CASE("claims carry the belief that justified them", "[registry][AR-017]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 6, 0.99f, axis(6));
reg.flush(1.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].belief > 0.9f); // logistic(4.0) ≈ 0.982
CHECK(sink.claims[0].observations == 1);
}
TEST_CASE("a vote for a reaped track is dropped and counted", "[registry][AR-013]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(/*extinction=*/1.0), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(1.0); f.mark_lost(id, 1.0); }
reg.tick(10.0); // reaped
// The matcher runs downstream of the tracker, so a late vote is expected.
// Silently ignoring it would hide a timeout shorter than the matcher's lag.
reg.observe(id, 3, 0.99f, axis(3));
CHECK(reg.dropped_votes() == 1);
}
TEST_CASE("a single-frame track yields a zero-length window", "[registry][AR-012]") {
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(42.0); id = f.create(42.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 8, 0.99f, axis(8));
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(43.0); f.mark_lost(id, 42.0); }
reg.tick(100.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].first_seen == 42.0);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 42.0);
}
// ── AR-025 — correlated observations must not accumulate as independent ──────
TEST_CASE("repeated identical views do not reach the certainty of distinct ones",
"[registry][AR-025]") {
// Thirty frames of the same face at the same angle is not thirty pieces of
// evidence. Without discounting, log-odds accumulate linearly and the
// posterior saturates on what is effectively a single measurement.
TrackRegistry same(cfg(), disc());
TrackRegistry varied(cfg(), disc());
Sink s_same, s_varied;
s_same.attach(same);
s_varied.attach(varied);
int a, b;
{ auto f = same.begin_frame(0.0); a = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
{ auto f = varied.begin_frame(0.0); b = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
for (int i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
same.observe(a, 1, 0.9f, axis(0)); // the identical view, every time
varied.observe(b, 1, 0.9f, axis(i + 1)); // a genuinely new look each time
}
same.flush(1.0);
varied.flush(1.0);
REQUIRE(s_same.claims.size() == 1);
REQUIRE(s_varied.claims.size() == 1);
// Same raw observation count, but only the varied track earned the evidence.
CHECK(s_same.claims[0].observations == s_varied.claims[0].observations);
CHECK(s_same.claims[0].effective_obs < s_varied.claims[0].effective_obs);
CHECK(s_same.claims[0].effective_obs < 2.0f); // ~one view's worth
}
TEST_CASE("the first observation on a track always counts in full",
"[registry][AR-025]") {
// There is nothing for it to be redundant with.
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 1, 0.9f, axis(0));
reg.flush(1.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].effective_obs == 1.0f);
}
TEST_CASE("the registry takes a probability, not a cosine", "[registry][AR-024]") {
// A posterior at the decision boundary must not move belief at all: 0.5
// carries no information either way, and its log-odds are zero. Feeding a
// raw cosine here would be silently wrong rather than obviously so, which
// is why the conversion lives inside the registry.
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 1, 0.5f, axis(0));
reg.flush(1.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == -1); // never owned
}
// ── AR-025 — repeated evidence must GROW confidence, not cap it ──────────────
TEST_CASE("confidence grows across frames of the same face", "[registry][AR-025]") {
// Found on a real clip: 318 frame-level identifications across 385 frames
// produced ZERO owned tracks. The truth file named nobody while the matcher
// was accepting on most frames.
//
// Cause: the correlation discount was an annihilator rather than an
// attenuator. Weight = 1 - P(same view), so once a track had one stored
// view every later frame of that same face scored ~0.01 and belief stopped
// moving. A single observation just over the accept threshold is
// logit(0.78) ~ 1.27, under the ownership bar — recognised every frame,
// owned on none.
//
// Correlated evidence should accumulate SLOWER than independent evidence,
// never stop accumulating. Each frame is a Bayesian update.
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
int id;
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(0.0); id = f.create(0.0, axis(0)); }
// A face held on screen: the same person, the same pose, frame after frame.
for (int i = 0; i < 50; ++i) {
// The frame scope must close before observe(): it holds the registry
// lock for its lifetime and the mutex is not recursive, so observing
// inside the scope self-deadlocks. In the pipeline these are separate
// nodes, so the ordering falls out naturally — but the API allows the
// mistake, and it hangs rather than failing.
{ auto f = reg.begin_frame(i * 0.2); f.mark_seen(id, i * 0.2, axis(0)); }
reg.observe(id, 5, 0.78f, axis(0));
}
reg.flush(20.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == 5);
// ...but it must still be worth far less than 50 independent looks would be.
CHECK(sink.claims[0].effective_obs < 25.0f);
}
// ── The evidence watermark: presence must not depend on node speed ───────────
/// TRACES: UT-001 | AR-012, AR-013, AR-025 | SR-002
TEST_CASE("a track is not reaped until the evidence clock passes it",
"[registry][AR-013]") {
// The tracker and the matcher are separate KPN nodes, and backpressure --
// working exactly as AR-004 intends -- lets the tracker run a whole
// channel's depth ahead. Reaping on the tracker's clock therefore closed
// tracks before their votes arrived: the votes landed on ids that no longer
// existed and the run silently under-reported. On the SuperHero fixture that
// was 5 actors at channel depth 32 against 0 actors at depth 10322, from
// identical input.
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(/*extinction=*/5.0), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
reg.expect_evidence(); // as IdentityMatcherFunc::set_registry does
int id;
{
auto s = reg.begin_frame(0.0);
id = s.create(0.0, axis(1));
s.mark_lost(id, 0.0);
}
// The tracker races 100 s ahead. Nothing has voted yet, so nothing may die:
// an unvoted track is not a finished track, it is an unanswered question.
{ auto s = reg.begin_frame(100.0); (void)s; }
CHECK(sink.claims.empty());
// A vote arriving very late still lands, because the track is still there.
reg.observe(id, /*actor*/ 3, /*posterior*/ 0.99f, axis(1));
CHECK(reg.dropped_votes() == 0);
// Only once the evidence clock passes last_seen + extinction does it close.
reg.advance_evidence(4.0);
CHECK(sink.claims.empty());
reg.advance_evidence(6.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == 3);
// AR-013 still holds: the window ends at the last sighting, never at the
// moment of death, and never at the watermark that authorised it.
CHECK(sink.claims[0].last_seen == 0.0);
}
/// TRACES: UT-001 | AR-008, AR-013 | SR-002
TEST_CASE("a track retired from association is still open to evidence",
"[registry][AR-008]") {
// The two clocks answer different questions and must not share an answer.
// Association asks "may this detection link to that track?" on the tracker's
// clock; reaping asks "is that track finished?" and cannot answer until the
// votes are in. Deferring both to the evidence clock was the second half of
// this bug: retired tracks lingered in the candidate pool 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.
TrackRegistry reg(cfg(/*extinction=*/5.0), disc());
Sink sink; sink.attach(reg);
reg.expect_evidence();
int id;
{
auto s = reg.begin_frame(0.0);
id = s.create(0.0, axis(1));
s.mark_lost(id, 0.0);
}
{
auto s = reg.begin_frame(3.0); // inside the window
CHECK(s.candidates().size() == 1); // still associable
}
{
auto s = reg.begin_frame(50.0); // far outside it
CHECK(s.candidates().empty()); // retired from association...
}
// ...but not gone, and still able to receive the votes in flight for it.
reg.observe(id, 7, 0.99f, axis(1));
CHECK(reg.dropped_votes() == 0);
reg.advance_evidence(50.0);
REQUIRE(sink.claims.size() == 1);
CHECK(sink.claims[0].actor_idx == 7);
}