docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md

# YLFF Implementation Status

## ✅ Completed Components

### Core Infrastructure

1. **BA Validator** (`ylff/ba_validator.py`)

   - ✅ Feature extraction integration (SuperPoint via hloc)
   - ✅ Feature matching integration (LightGlue)
   - ✅ Pose error computation (geodesic rotation distance)
   - ✅ Trajectory alignment (Procrustes)
   - ✅ Sample categorization (accept/reject-learnable/reject-outlier)
   - ⚠️ COLMAP BA integration (structure in place, needs full triangulation)

2. **Data Pipeline** (`ylff/data_pipeline.py`)

   - ✅ Sequence processing
   - ✅ Model inference integration
   - ✅ BA validation integration
   - ✅ Training set building
   - ✅ Statistics tracking
   - ✅ Data saving/loading

3. **Fine-Tuning** (`ylff/fine_tune.py`)

   - ✅ Dataset class for BA-supervised samples
   - ✅ Training loop with pose loss
   - ✅ Optimizer and scheduler setup
   - ✅ Checkpoint saving
   - ✅ Progress tracking

4. **Loss Functions** (`ylff/losses.py`)

   - ✅ Geodesic rotation loss
   - ✅ Pose loss (rotation + translation)
   - ✅ Depth loss (L1/L2)
   - ✅ Confidence-weighted loss

5. **Model Loading** (`ylff/models.py`)

   - ✅ DA3 model loading from HuggingFace
   - ✅ Checkpoint loading utilities

6. **Evaluation** (`ylff/evaluate.py`)

   - ✅ BA agreement rate computation
   - ✅ Error metrics collection

7. **CLI** (`ylff/cli.py`)

   - ✅ `validate` command
   - ✅ `build-dataset` command
   - ✅ `train` command
   - ✅ `evaluate` command

8. **Configuration** (`configs/`)

   - ✅ BA configuration (`ba_config.yaml`)
   - ✅ Training configuration (`train_config.yaml`)

9. **Scripts** (`scripts/`)

   - ✅ BA validation batch script
   - ✅ Fine-tuning script
   - ✅ BA pipeline setup script

10. **Documentation**
    - ✅ README.md
    - ✅ SETUP.md
    - ✅ Example usage script

## ⚠️ Partial Implementation

### COLMAP BA Integration

The `_run_colmap_ba` method in `ba_validator.py` has the structure but needs:

- Full point triangulation from matches
- 3D point addition to reconstruction
- Actual bundle adjustment execution
- Reprojection error computation

**Note**: This is the most complex part and requires deep COLMAP integration. The current implementation provides the framework; full BA can be added incrementally.

## 📋 Next Steps

### Immediate (for testing)

1. **Complete COLMAP BA integration**

   - Implement point triangulation
   - Add points to reconstruction
   - Run actual bundle adjustment
   - Compute reprojection errors

2. **Test with sample data**
   - Create minimal test sequence
   - Verify BA validator works
   - Test data pipeline
   - Test fine-tuning loop

### For Production Use

1. **Data Collection**

   - Collect 1000+ ARKit sequences
   - Organize in `data/raw/` directory

2. **Run BA Validation**

   ```bash
   ylff build-dataset --sequences-dir data/raw --max-samples 1000
   ```

3. **Fine-Tune Model**

   ```bash
   ylff train --training-set data/training/training_set.pkl --epochs 10
   ```

4. **Evaluate**
   ```bash
   ylff evaluate --sequences-dir data/test
   ```

## 🔧 Dependencies

### Required

- PyTorch 2.0+
- DA3 models (from HuggingFace)
- COLMAP (system installation)
- pycolmap (Python bindings)
- hloc (Hierarchical Localization)
- LightGlue (feature matching)

### Optional

- TensorBoard (for training visualization)
- Jupyter (for experimentation)

## 📝 Notes

1. **DA3 Integration**: The code assumes DA3 is available via `depth_anything_3.api`. If DA3 is not installed, models can still be loaded from HuggingFace if the API is available.

2. **BA Complexity**: Full COLMAP BA requires:

   - Feature extraction and matching (done)
   - Point triangulation (needs implementation)
   - Bundle adjustment (needs implementation)
   - This is the most complex part and may require iterative development.

3. **Data Format**: The pipeline expects sequences as directories of images. ARKit JSON metadata can be processed separately if needed.

4. **GPU Requirements**: Fine-tuning requires GPU. BA validation can run on CPU but is slow.

## 🎯 Success Criteria

The implementation is ready for:

- ✅ Testing with sample sequences
- ✅ Building training datasets
- ✅ Fine-tuning models (once BA is fully integrated)
- ✅ Evaluating improvements

The framework is complete; full functionality requires completing the COLMAP BA integration.