- Lock OpenCV 5 and cap NumPy below 2.4 through uv constraint-dependencies so
PaddleX 3.7 keeps resolving; Dependabot ignores mirror the cap.
- OpenCV 5 draws Hershey putText glyphs differently, so the Dola and Kling
video templates ship as committed OpenCV 4 renders with a recipe script, and
the OpenArt alpha recipe now refuses any OpenCV but 4.x.
- Break Sora/Veo cross-matches in favor of Veo under valid Google AI-video
provenance, and require the full Sora mascot shape for mascot-only matches.
- Let the Doubao engine detect marks tinted by saturated backgrounds.
- Share C2PA claim-generator, credential-level and vendor-platform helpers,
JPEG suffixes and the DCT basis instead of per-module copies.
- Log model download failures, document the optional GITHUB_TOKEN, mark the
photo and source classifier model cards archived, and refresh the lock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add `--pipeline controlnet` (SDXL base + xinsir canny ControlNet via
StableDiffusionXLControlNetImg2ImgPipeline): the canny edge map conditions the
img2img regeneration so text and face STRUCTURE stay sharp, while the watermark
is still removed by the regeneration (`strength`) -- no original pixels are
copied or frozen, so SynthID does not survive. Oracle-verified clean on OpenAI
with better text/structure fidelity than plain img2img at equal strength.
`--controlnet-scale` tunes structure preservation; fp32 on mps/cpu (fp16-fixed
VAE on cuda/xpu). Shares the img2img runner (live progress + MPS->CPU fallback)
and the fp16-VAE-fix / device-move helpers with the default pipeline.
Remove the superseded subsystems -- ctrlregen (SD1.5 clean-noise),
text-protection (differential / region-hires) and face-protection: they either
destroyed real content or shielded the watermark by re-using original pixels.
controlnet replaces them by regenerating everything under edge conditioning.
Canny preserves face structure but not identity; face IDENTITY is a separate
face-restoration post-pass (CodeFormer/GFPGAN), researched + prototyped but not
yet shipped. An IP-Adapter FaceID attempt was built and removed (footgun: needs
high strength, corrupts faces at removal strength).
Docs: docs/controlnet-removal-pipeline-research.md, scripts/controlnet_sweep.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
