Trust only the brightest neutrals for the WB grey card - #21
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On sunny days, clear sky and sky-lit water pass the chroma gate but render mid-luma and distinctly blue: the wide gate read G/B 0.94 on a frame whose clouds measured 1.02, and days of that reading dragged the blue trim to its -12% rail, greening the render (the trim state sat at R x1.12 / B x0.88, both rails, since 2026-08-09). Keep only the brightest quartile of the chroma-neutral candidates: highlights (cloud, white walls) are the scene's only honest grey card, and on overcast days they are the same grey cloud the wide gate already read. The cut is relative to the candidates themselves, so dim overcast frames where nothing reaches a fixed highlight threshold keep steering. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0168HCPBMtj866ZbVWaXvmqY
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWhite-balance selection now records a 75th-percentile luma threshold and uses the brightest neutral candidates after existing filters. Tests cover mixed cloud and sky frames and uniformly cast frames. ChangesWhite-balance selection
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change selects only the brightest neutral candidates, but typical frames may then fail the existing minimum-sample threshold and hold the white-balance trim instead of applying the intended correction. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Possibly related PRs
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121-130: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCover the post-filter minimum-sample branch.
The new tests cover mixed luma and equal-luma candidates. They do not cover the case where the initial neutral mask meets
WB_MIN_SAMPLES, but the brightest-quartile mask leaves fewer thanWB_MIN_SAMPLES. Add a synthetic case that asserts the result contains onlywb_neutral_fractionand nowb_grorwb_gb.This test follows the PR objective for holding the trim when fewer than
WB_MIN_SAMPLESremain.Also applies to: 132-139
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In `@raspilapse/camera/capture.py`:
- Around line 479-485: Update the white-balance eligibility logic around the
percentile filtering in the capture method so
WB_MIN_SAMPLES/min_neutral_fraction is evaluated against the post-filter neutral
candidate count, or consistently adjust the configured default and related tests
to the post-filter fraction. Preserve the brightest-quartile selection while
ensuring valid filtered candidates are not rejected solely because their
fraction is measured against all samples.
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In `@tests/test_wb_stats.py`:
- Around line 121-130: Add a synthetic test in the relevant white-balance stats
tests covering the post-filter minimum-sample branch: make the initial neutral
mask meet WB_MIN_SAMPLES while the brightest-quartile filter leaves fewer
samples, then assert the result includes wb_neutral_fraction and omits wb_gr and
wb_gb.
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Re the mergeability note ("typical frames may then fail the existing minimum-sample threshold and hold the trim"): accepted as intended behavior, and the margin is wide in practice. The lores chroma grid is 80x60 = 4800 samples. Live frames on the production camera read a 46-59% candidate fraction, i.e. ~2200-2800 candidates; the brightest quartile of that is ~550-700 samples, an order of magnitude above The docstring-coverage warning is over the new test functions; this repo's tests use behavior-describing names rather than docstrings, matching the existing suite. |
The controller's min_neutral_fraction gate was calibrated against the share of the scene that passes the neutral gates; letting the quartile cut shrink the reported fraction would have silently tightened that gate fourfold. Count every candidate in the fraction, read the ratios from the brightest quartile, and cover the branch where the quartile leaves too few samples to trust. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0168HCPBMtj866ZbVWaXvmqY
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Problem
On sunny days the
wb_feedbackloop greens the render. Clear sky and sky-lit water pass the chroma gate (|Cb|,|Cr| < 12) but are distinctly blue, so the loop reads the whole frame as having a blue cast and pulls the blue trim down. On the live Spjutvika camera the trim sat railed at R x1.12 / B x0.88 (both clamps) since 2026-08-09, rendering clouds ~2% green.Measured on a sunny frame (2026-08-13): the wide gate reported a 56-59% "neutral" fraction (far more grey than the scene contains) and read G/B 0.94, while the actual clouds in the same frame measured G/B 1.02, the opposite direction.
Fix
Of the pixels that pass the existing chroma and luma gates, keep only the brightest quartile. Highlights (cloud, white walls) are the scene's only honest grey card; mid-luma "grey" is sky and water on any sunny day. The cut is a percentile of the candidates themselves rather than a fixed threshold, so dim overcast frames, where nothing is bright in absolute terms but the brightest cloud is still cloud, keep steering. On overcast frames the quartile tracks the wide gate's reading (verified on archived frames); on sunny frames it flips the blue reading to match the clouds.
If the quartile leaves fewer than
WB_MIN_SAMPLES, the stats report only the fraction and the controller holds its trim, the same policy as before.Tests
test_pale_sky_dimmer_than_cloud_is_not_a_grey_card: a half-cloud, half-pale-sky frame must read identically to a pure cloud frame.test_a_uniform_cast_still_reads_through_the_luma_cut: a flat cast frame (single luma) survives the percentile cut intact, so the khaki-cast use case the loop was built for is unaffected.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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