"""Reference (background) frame handling + difference image for GelSight. GelSight Mini is markerless, so background subtraction is clean (no markers to occlude). Convention follows Sparsh (Meta, CoRL 2024): a single no-contact reference frame + signed per-channel difference. All frames are RGB uint8 (H, W, 3) — the convention returned by the dataset's video decoder. """ from __future__ import annotations import numpy as np def get_reference(frames, mode: str = "p01", intensity=None, window: int = 30): """Pick a no-contact reference frame from a sequence. frames: (T, H, W, 3) uint8 OR a callable i->frame for lazy access with an explicit `intensity` array. mode: "first" -> frames[0] "p01" -> the 1st-percentile-intensity (quietest) frame; needs `intensity` (T,) array of per-frame contact intensity, else computes a cheap proxy = mean abs deviation from the temporal median. "running_avg" -> mean of the `window` lowest-intensity frames. Returns an (H, W, 3) uint8 reference. """ arr = np.asarray(frames) T = arr.shape[0] if mode == "first": return arr[0].copy() if intensity is None: med = np.median(arr.reshape(T, -1).astype(np.float32), axis=0) intensity = np.abs(arr.reshape(T, -1).astype(np.float32) - med).mean(axis=1) intensity = np.asarray(intensity, np.float32) if mode == "p01": thr = np.percentile(intensity, 1) idx = int(np.where(intensity <= thr)[0][0]) if (intensity <= thr).any() else int(intensity.argmin()) return arr[idx].copy() if mode == "running_avg": k = min(window, T) order = np.argsort(intensity)[:k] return arr[order].mean(axis=0).round().astype(np.uint8) raise ValueError(f"unknown reference mode: {mode}") def difference(frame, reference, signed: bool = True): """Sparsh-style difference image. signed=True -> (frame - ref)/255 + 0.5, clipped to [0,1], scaled to uint8. Mid-gray = no change; preserves direction of deformation. signed=False -> |frame - ref| as uint8 (magnitude only). frame/reference: (H, W, 3) uint8. Returns (H, W, 3) uint8. """ f = frame.astype(np.float32) r = reference.astype(np.float32) if signed: d = (f - r) / 255.0 + 0.5 return (np.clip(d, 0, 1) * 255).astype(np.uint8) return np.clip(np.abs(f - r), 0, 255).astype(np.uint8) def l2_diff(frame, reference): """Per-pixel L2 distance across RGB channels (H, W) float32. This is the quantity the dataset's contact scalars are built on: d[h,w] = ||frame[h,w,:] - ref[h,w,:]||_2. """ return np.sqrt(((frame.astype(np.float32) - reference.astype(np.float32)) ** 2).sum(axis=2))