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JensandClaude Opus 5 2b968b74cf make QA scoring reproducible and threshold-independent
The greedy IoU matcher gave a reference to whichever candidate was offered
first. Row order decided that, and every detection in a run shares one
transaction timestamp, so ordering by created_at left the assignment
undefined: the same QA run over the same data produced different mean IoU,
and the geometry shown to a reviewer as a false positive could be the better
of two detections. Candidates are now ranked by confidence with feature
identity as tiebreaker, which is also the COCO/PASCAL rule.

A single precision/recall/F1 triple describes one operating point, so two
models cannot be compared from it: a conservatively calibrated model looks
worse at a low confidence cut and better at a high one without detecting
anything differently. DetectionMetricsService adds the full curve, average
precision and the threshold where F1 actually peaks.

Also:
- report the population the metrics were computed over, so
  matches + false_positives equals candidate_feature_count even under an
  area filter; raw dataset totals move to the _raw fields;
- state whether candidates are axis-aligned boxes or footprint polygons.
  A box can never reach IoU 1 against a rotated building, so the strict
  score has a ceiling that has nothing to do with detection quality.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:31:21 +02:00

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"""A single F1 at one arbitrary confidence cut cannot compare two models.
Reporting F1 at whichever threshold the operator happened to type makes two
models look better or worse depending on their calibration rather than their
detection quality. The sweep produces the standard curve instead: precision
and recall at every operating point, average precision, and the threshold
where F1 actually peaks.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import pytest
from shapely.geometry import box
from app.services.detection_metrics_service import DetectionMetricsService
def _candidate(name: str, geometry, confidence: float):
return ({"id": name, "confidence": confidence}, geometry)
def _reference(name: str, geometry):
return ({"id": name}, geometry)
def test_perfect_detector_reaches_average_precision_one() -> None:
references = [_reference("r1", box(0, 0, 1, 1)), _reference("r2", box(5, 5, 6, 6))]
candidates = [
_candidate("c1", box(0, 0, 1, 1), 0.9),
_candidate("c2", box(5, 5, 6, 6), 0.8),
]
curve = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(candidates, references, iou_threshold=0.5)
assert curve["average_precision"] == pytest.approx(1.0)
assert curve["best_f1"] == pytest.approx(1.0)
assert curve["reference_count"] == 2
def test_low_confidence_false_positive_is_only_penalised_below_its_threshold() -> None:
references = [_reference("r1", box(0, 0, 1, 1))]
candidates = [
_candidate("hit", box(0, 0, 1, 1), 0.9),
_candidate("junk", box(20, 20, 21, 21), 0.2),
]
curve = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(candidates, references, iou_threshold=0.5)
# Cutting at 0.2 admits the junk box, so precision there is 0.5.
low = next(point for point in curve["points"] if point["confidence_threshold"] == pytest.approx(0.2))
assert low["precision"] == pytest.approx(0.5)
assert low["recall"] == pytest.approx(1.0)
# The optimum simply drops it.
assert curve["best_f1"] == pytest.approx(1.0)
assert curve["best_f1_threshold"] == pytest.approx(0.9)
# AP is computed over the ranking, so one trailing false positive after
# full recall does not reduce it.
assert curve["average_precision"] == pytest.approx(1.0)
def test_ranking_quality_is_visible_in_average_precision() -> None:
"""A detector that ranks its mistake above its hit scores worse."""
references = [_reference("r1", box(0, 0, 1, 1))]
good = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(
[_candidate("hit", box(0, 0, 1, 1), 0.9), _candidate("junk", box(20, 20, 21, 21), 0.1)],
references,
iou_threshold=0.5,
)
bad = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(
[_candidate("hit", box(0, 0, 1, 1), 0.1), _candidate("junk", box(20, 20, 21, 21), 0.9)],
references,
iou_threshold=0.5,
)
assert good["average_precision"] > bad["average_precision"]
assert bad["average_precision"] == pytest.approx(0.5)
def test_missed_reference_caps_recall_and_average_precision() -> None:
references = [_reference("r1", box(0, 0, 1, 1)), _reference("r2", box(9, 9, 10, 10))]
candidates = [_candidate("hit", box(0, 0, 1, 1), 0.9)]
curve = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(candidates, references, iou_threshold=0.5)
assert curve["points"][0]["recall"] == pytest.approx(0.5)
assert curve["average_precision"] == pytest.approx(0.5)
assert curve["best_f1"] == pytest.approx(2 / 3)
def test_curve_is_independent_of_input_order() -> None:
references = [_reference("r1", box(0, 0, 1, 1)), _reference("r2", box(5, 5, 6, 6))]
candidates = [
_candidate("c1", box(0, 0, 1, 1), 0.9),
_candidate("c2", box(5, 5, 6, 6), 0.4),
_candidate("c3", box(30, 30, 31, 31), 0.6),
]
forward = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(candidates, references, iou_threshold=0.5)
reverse = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(
list(reversed(candidates)), list(reversed(references)), iou_threshold=0.5
)
assert forward == reverse
def test_empty_candidate_population_is_reported_not_crashed() -> None:
curve = DetectionMetricsService.precision_recall_curve(
[], [_reference("r1", box(0, 0, 1, 1))], iou_threshold=0.5
)
assert curve["average_precision"] == 0.0
assert curve["best_f1"] == 0.0
assert curve["best_f1_threshold"] is None
assert curve["points"] == []