Figure boxes are already NMS-merged (iou 0.6) and each YOLO detector self-NMSes,
but the combined per-frame crop pile (figure→concept ∪ anatomy component→concept
∪ panel) was embedded with no cross-proposer dedup — so genuine near-duplicates
slipped through (a figure box ≈ an anatomy component on a solo bust; overlapping
booru head classes on one head), embedding the same region twice and burning a
slot against max_regions.
Add detectors.dedupe_crops(): a greedy, high-IoU (default 0.85), kind-aware pass
over the pending (crop, template) list right before embed_batch — drop boxes that
overlap ≥ iou within the same kind, keep the highest score. The high threshold is
deliberate: it collapses only true near-identical boxes while preserving
intentional nested crops across scopes (a whole figure vs a small head component
sit well below it) and distinct kinds (concept vs panel). Env-tunable DEDUPE_IOU
(≥1.0 disables). Runs on CPU before the GPU work, so it cuts both embed cost and
region count. Temporal (cross-frame) dedup deferred. Build marker 2026-07-01.2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ttrj5P7upUTueSfoJcxEqa
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