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dtourolle 4925443e56 docs: four focused findings pages (best model, gallery scope, expansion, deep dive)
Splits the rep4 write-up's key findings into their own linkable pages:
- best-model.md: calibration curves first (discriminative power, independent
  of any threshold), then F1 on the benchmark — LVFace-B Glint360K wins both.
- gallery-scope.md: whole vs. cast-restricted gallery, isolated from model and
  expansion choice — restriction wins on every axis, but isn't a shipped
  runtime feature yet.
- pose-expansion.md: the training-set expand_gallery effect, and the held-out
  replication attempt that found it doesn't reproduce (5 films, 2 models,
  after catching and fixing a replay-timeout truncation bug and a bbox
  first-match-instead-of-best-match bug in the comparison harness itself). An
  honest null result, with the methodology errors documented since they're
  exactly the kind that manufacture a false "it works!" finding.
- lvface-deep-dive.md: the winning model's held-out generalization gap, its
  two failure modes (frozen-bbox ghost tracks), and a verified case (cross-
  checked against Jellyfin's independent cast metadata) where LVFace
  correctly identified an actor that X-Ray's ground truth failed to credit.

Adds a "report-highlights" artifact-registry package (scripts/artifacts/
push_artifacts.sh, pull_artifacts.sh) for hand-picked illustrative frames that
aren't reproducible via the automated best/worst montage selection, and wires
pulling it into scripts/docs/build_site.sh.
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scene-actor-extraction

A face-recognition pipeline that finds when each actor appears on screen in a film or TV episode — built on KPN++ (a C++20 Kahn Process Network library) for the detect → track → match → scene pipeline, with a Jellyfin-integrated gallery and an X-Ray-validated optimizer.

Start here — four questions this bake-off answers

  • Which model is best? — calibration curves first (discriminative power, independent of any threshold), then F1 on the actual benchmark. LVFace-B Glint360K wins both.
  • Whole gallery vs. limited (cast-restricted) gallery — restricting the matcher to a film's credited cast is a clean win on every axis (+3.3pp F1, less than a third the misIDs), but isn't a shipped runtime feature yet.
  • Does pose expansion help? — a real training-set effect that didn't reproduce on 5 held-out films once two methodology bugs were caught and fixed. An honest null result, not a forced narrative.
  • Deep dive: LVFace-B Glint360K — the winning model's held-out generalization gap, its two real failure modes (frozen-bbox "ghost tracks"), and one case where it correctly identified an actor that the X-Ray ground truth itself failed to credit.

The full technical log

  • Rep4 model bake-off + threshold re-tune — the complete experiment log behind the four pages above: the ROCm teardown deadlock root cause and fix, DE concurrency tuning, the full 16-combo results table, and every caveat. This is where the shipped src/config.hpp defaults come from.
  • Optimizer experiments (prior round) — the earlier scene-union-metric tuning pass, superseded by the per-second metric used in rep4 but kept for the ground-truth/architecture background.
  • Service conversion (proposal) — design sketch for an idle-GPU Docker worker, not yet built.

Reproducing the benchmarks

Gallery .h5 files, embedding dumps, the X-Ray corpus, montage frame images, and DE trajectories are not committed to this repository — they're pushed to the Gitea package registry and pulled on demand:

scripts/artifacts/pull_artifacts.sh galleries
scripts/artifacts/pull_artifacts.sh experiment-data
scripts/artifacts/pull_artifacts.sh montage-frames <film-slug>

See scripts/artifacts/push_artifacts.sh for the upload side (requires a GITEA_TOKEN with package write scope).