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Victor Kuznetsov
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After reverse-alpha, re-detect the sparkle; when one survives at or above the registry fail line (conf >= 0.5) -- an alpha mismatch the per-image gain estimate could not fully correct -- inpaint the footprint and keep that only when it lowers the re-detect confidence. The footprint inpaint reconstructs the slot from its darker surroundings, so it physically removes the bright sparkle; purely additive, the common clean removal re-detects below 0.5 and is returned untouched. Measured on the spaces visible-removal audit: gemini removal-audit failures drop 15 -> 11 (4 genuine rescues), doubao 65/65 and jimeng 11/11 unchanged, zero regressions on the 468 already-clean removals. An offset+scale alignment search was prototyped on the remaining 11 fails and rejected: an audit "ceiling" suggested +4 more, but those were NCC-gaming -- the lower-scoring placement left the sparkle as bright or brighter, just reshaping the residual so the contrast-invariant shape-NCC scored lower (a5a9: first-pass slot ~76 at background level vs the "aligned win" ~164). A brightness sanity check rejected every one, so it contributed nothing and was removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>