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Victor Kuznetsov 08a4a8d299 Add synthetic visible-mark example gallery with canary tests
One committed example per registered mark: 12 PNG (image registry) and 6 MP4
clips (video registry), generated by scripts/render_visible_examples.py from
the committed silhouettes and detector templates -- never from user uploads.
The generator self-verifies (exit 1 when a mark misses its own example) and
tests/test_visible_examples.py holds both sides to it: registry completeness
both ways, per-engine detection on the canonical example, and the shipped
temporal selection accepting each clip.

Second tranche of measured-but-unregistered candidates parked under
scripts/assets/visible-mark-candidates/ with a README recording why none
ships yet (positives do not separate from clean negatives): samsung_en,
gemini_text, notebooklm, dola, mindvideo, higgsfield, jianying, capcut, zsky,
chromastudio, digenai, gendo.
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# Repository data
Tracked data is organized by purpose:
```text
data/
fixtures/
provenance/ Real format and provenance fixtures used by tests
(source records live in fixtures/README.md)
visible/ Synthetic per-mark example gallery (one committed example per
registered visible mark; see fixtures/visible/README.md)
calibration/
<vendor>/ Minimal controlled inputs needed to rebuild detector assets
synthid/
originals/ Canonical provider-oracle fixtures, stored once
manifest.csv Provenance and verification record for each original
full-pipeline-quality.csv
Reusable full-pipeline evaluation selection
evaluations/
fidelity/ Evaluation instructions and hand-verified ground truth
video-synthid-oracle.csv
Reproducible full-clip Gemini SynthID verdicts
```
## Storage rules
1. Store each binary image once. Evaluation manifests and documentation point
to its canonical location.
2. Put executable test fixtures in `fixtures/`.
3. Put only the minimal reproducible detector inputs in `calibration/`.
4. Put externally verified SynthID originals in `synthid/originals/` and keep
both CSV files synchronized.
5. Keep evaluation outputs outside the repository. Record reproducible
commands, hashes, and oracle verdicts instead of committing another corpus
copy. A small curated before-and-after example may live in `docs/images/`
when it is part of the public documentation.
6. Keep third-party fixture license notices in `licenses/`, outside directories
that tests enumerate as media inputs.
7. Runtime detector assets belong in `src/remove_ai_watermarks/assets/`.
Unregistered research candidates belong in
`scripts/assets/visible-mark-candidates/` so they are not shipped in the
wheel.
The source distribution excludes `data/`; the wheel contains only package
runtime assets.
## Video SynthID oracle manifest
`evaluations/video-synthid-oracle.csv` is the only evidence that the shipped
video removal profile works, so it is also the source of truth for three shipped
defaults: `tests/test_video_invisible.py` asserts that `noise_std`, `long_side`,
and `fps` together match a row this manifest records as certified. Changing one
of those three without adding the row that certifies it fails the suite. Both
historical rows mark `vae` as `unrecorded`: the repository must not infer a model
identity from the current default. Add it to the assertion in the same commit as
the first oracle row that records and verifies one.
| Column | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `date`, `source_url`, `source_sha256` | Identify the carrier. |
| `source_width`, `source_height`, `source_fps` | Carrier geometry. Without it the actual downscale factor of a row cannot be recovered later. |
| `duration_seconds`, `source_verdict` | Clip length submitted and the verifier's reading of the untouched carrier. |
| `vae`, `noise_std`, `long_side`, `fps`, `seed` | The run configuration. `unrecorded` means the historical run did not preserve the VAE identity. |
| `output_sha256` | Identifies the exact submitted file. |
| `output_verdict` | One of `detected`, `not_detected`, `indeterminate`, `refused`. |
| `output_verdict_text` | The verifier's wording, verbatim. |
| `output_detected_range` | Time range the verifier reported for the output. |
| `track` | `visual`, `audio`, `both`, or empty. The verifier scores tracks separately and this path copies source audio unchanged. |
| `session_id` | Groups rows submitted in one oracle session, so per-session drift stays visible. |
| `stratum` | Content class of the carrier, for stratified certification. |
| `psnr_db`, `temporal_residual_ratio` | Fidelity measurements. Neither is a watermark verdict. |
Record `indeterminate` when the verifier answers with its unclear state rather
than a negative: an unclear reading logged as `not_detected` is exactly the
silent regression this manifest exists to prevent. Leave a field empty when it
was not recorded, and never backfill it with a plausible value.
`psnr_db` is measured against the already-resized frame and before the encode,
so it excludes the downscale, the decimation, and the codec. Rows stay
comparable to each other only while that definition holds.
The two 2026-07-31 rows predate this schema; their empty fields were never
recorded and are not recoverable from the row.