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scene-actor-extraction/experiments
dtourolle b26c66dcce scripts: figure generators + frame-regen script for the opencv5 report
make_figures.py gains the DE-landscape, calibration, and per-film leave-one-out
holdout figures used by the experiment log. regen_frame_examples.sh replays all
nine films with the shipped learned-boundary flood config and draws GT-aware
TP/FP/FN frames, so every annotated image in the docs is reproducible.
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experiments/ — X-Ray validation & optimizer artifacts

Durable home (in the repo tree, NOT /tmp scratch — a scratch wipe once cost an hour) for the data behind the X-Ray threshold-optimization and embedding-model bake-off.

Layout

  • xray/ — Amazon X-Ray Zenodo dataset (gitignored, ~140MB; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17659734).
  • dumps/ — per-model embedding dumps, one HDF5 per (model, film). Gitignored (large). Naming: <model>/dump_<Film>.h5. Regenerate with scene_analyze --dump-embeddings.
  • galleries/ — per-model galleries (gitignored JSON). gallery_<model>.json + augmented variants. Regenerate with build_gallery / fetch_missing_actors.
  • manifests/ — film manifests (committed — small, and the Jellyfin ID join is the authoritative record of which films/paths/X-Ray-dirs were used).
  • trajectories/ — DE trajectories, one JSONL per run (committed — the evidence).
  • results/ — final per-run metrics + the model comparison table (committed).

Embedding-model bake-off (July 2026)

Question: is LVFace-B (455MB) actually the best vs X-Ray, or just the biggest? Method: optimize per model — each model gets its own dumps + gallery + full DE run, then compare each model at ITS OWN optimum (fairest — no model penalised by another's threshold). Scored by the weighted per-scene metric (out-of-cast misID ×10; see docs/optimizer-experiments.md).

Models:

model file size MovieNet rank-1 (prior)
LVFace-B_Glint360K models/LVFace-B_Glint360K.onnx 455 MB
ArcFace w600k R50 models/arcface_w600k_r50.onnx 174 MB 85.2%
ArcFace R18 models/arcface_r18.onnx 48 MB 72.2%
ArcFace w600k MBF models/arcface_w600k_mbf.onnx 13 MB 83.3%

9 genuine X-Ray-overlap films (Jellyfin ID join): Benny & Joon, Café Society, Downton Abbey: A New Era, Lord of War, Lovelace, The Many Saints of Newark, Scarface, Sound of Metal, Valerian.

Second axis alongside the model comparison: does restricting the matcher's candidate set to a title's credited cast reduce cross-film misIDs (e.g. naming Archie Yates in a film he's not in) vs. matching against the whole 2418-actor gallery?

  • full — match against the entire model gallery (2418 actors).
  • restricted — per film, match only against its Jellyfin credited cast, filtered from the gallery by jellyfin_id. This is what run_from_jellyfin.py does in production.

LIMITATION — Jellyfin stores only ~15 actors per title. Jellyfin's People list is capped at the top-billed cast (~15 Actors), NOT the full IMDb/X-Ray cast (e.g. Scarface: Jellyfin 15 vs X-Ray 67). This is a hard limit of the metadata Jellyfin imports — not a query parameter (verified: /Items?Fields=People returns 15 regardless; the single-item /Items/{id} endpoint 400s on this server). So the "restricted" arm restricts to the ~15 top-billed leads, which caps its achievable recall at whatever fraction of on-screen actors are top-billed, but should drive out-of-cast misIDs toward zero. A production deployment wanting fuller cast restriction would need a richer cast source than Jellyfin (TMDB/IMDb full credits).

Matrix: 4 models × {full, restricted} = 8 DE runs, all reusing the 36 dumps + 4 baseline galleries (no augmentation — avoids test-set leakage on either arm). Scored by the duration-weighted per-scene metric with the misID split (report_rates.py).