Review 2, item 2. The first version of this gate counted bigrams with a
non-digit character, which let the unit's own letters through: "400g 50%"
left "0G" and "0%", "450g カロリー50%" left "0%", and "500ml" left
"0M". All three still named products.
The quantity token is now cut whole - digits plus unit, in either script -
before counting, and the floor is three bigrams rather than two, because
"カロリ" is two and it is a descriptor every low-calorie package prints.
DecisionPolicy.decide gated the fill-in only when a read was passed, so the
unsafe behaviour was the default. Omitting the read now means no fill-in: a
caller with a ranking and no read has not shown the text can name anything.
TextLane.carries_identity was a dead duplicate of the module function; deleted.
Tests: the five cases from the review plus the default-gate case. Suite 284 ->
286. Evaluator unchanged: local 61%/77% full, 59%/95% live.
Two review findings, both confirmed by measurement.
1. The evaluator had no always-argmax lane, so every "vs Van" claim compared
against the *gated* matcher, which is not Van's contract - the original demo
answered every crop with its best-scoring SKU and had no accept line. The new
'van' lane is that contract: same scores, no gate. Against it the local lane
wins both axes at both resolutions (full 61%/77% vs 52%/29%; live 59%/95% vs
57%/32%), but the live coverage margin is one facing, not seven, and the 95%
figure is live-resolution only - at full resolution the same lane reads 77%
with 11 false accepts and a hub alarm.
2. A crop reading only "400g" scored 0.667 on three SKUs, above TEXT_ACCEPT, so
the text lane named a product from a size line. The fill-in job now requires
two non-digit bigrams; the veto is unchanged, so "65%" still contradicts a
local answer. The raw OCR read travels with the ranking through
score_crop_lanes for that check.
Tests: 3 for the size gate (policy + live) and the van lane's own row. Removing
the gate fails all three. Suite 276 -> 280.
Replaces the DINO gallery as the recognition path with the measured design
from docs/research/2026-09-28-recognition-architecture/DECISION.md: RootSIFT
over a per-SKU reference pyramid, similarity-constrained RANSAC and a hue
check, fused with an OCR text lane that vetoes a match whose package text
names a different catalog row and answers on its own when geometry finds
nothing.
- identity_lanes.py: LocalLane, TextLane, DecisionPolicy. The text lane
builds each row's signature from the catalog name plus its packshot OCR, so
a row with no enrolled image is still answerable.
- engine.py: every backend groups scores by canonical SKU, so no
view-suffixed id reaches the wire and a name and price always resolve.
decide_crop fuses the lanes; score_crop_lanes feeds the live path. Both
lanes are built in warm_up (non-fatally) so the first frame is not the slow
one, and the text lane shares the engine's OCR lock.
- live.py: decides per crop on the lane's own rank order. The lane's order
comes from its rank key and its value is only the gate, so re-sorting by
value named a different SKU than the lane chose; averaging in an empty
observation also diluted a good confidence below the accept line.
- identity.py: a `local` score scale whose gate is one absolute line, because
the value is already a margin over the runner-up.
- app.py, run-demo-server.sh: `--identity local` is the default; the demo
server no longer starts on the leaked `stock-lopia` catalog.
- eval_live.py: the replay vocabulary accepts `local`, so a recording from
the shipped server can be scored.
- README.md: documents the three backends and what each is for.
Measured on the corrected image6 labels at live resolution: 36/61 in-catalog
facings named at 95% precision, 0 of 48 unknowns accepted, 11 labels sourced
from the text lane alone. Through the real server: /v1/recognize 90%
precision, /v1/stream 100% precision, no view-suffixed ids on either.
