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# Intelligent CC Suggestion Tool — DMP 2026 Demo

**Contributor:** Naitik Gupta
**Organisation:** PlanetRead
**Issue:** [#2 — Intelligent CC Generation](https://github.com/PlanetRead/Intelligent-cc-generation/issues/2)
**Mentors:** @abinash-sketch, @keerthiseelan-planetread

---

## What This Demo Covers

This is a **complete end-to-end working demo** of all three pipeline goals described in the ticket:

| Module | Goal | Status |
|--------|------|--------|
| Module 1 | Sound Event Detection (YAMNet + confidence scores + timestamps) | ✅ Complete |
| Module 2 | Speaker Reaction Detection (MediaPipe Face Mesh + OpenCV) | ✅ Complete |
| Module 3 | CC Decision Engine + SRT/SLS Output | ✅ Complete |

---

## How It Works

```
Video File
├─► Module 1: SoundEventDetector
│ YAMNet classifies non-speech audio events
│ Output: [{sound, confidence, start_time, end_time}]
├─► Module 2: SpeakerReactionDetector
│ MediaPipe Face Mesh tracks head velocity + mouth openness
│ around each audio event timestamp
│ Output: [reaction_confidence_score per event]
└─► Module 3: CCDecisionEngine
Combined score = 0.45 × audio_conf + 0.55 × visual_conf
If combined ≥ threshold → CC approved → written to SRT
Output: .srt file + .json report
```

### Decision Formula

```
combined = 0.45 × audio_confidence + 0.55 × visual_confidence
```

Visual reaction is weighted slightly higher because a visible speaker reaction
is a stronger signal of narrative significance than audio confidence alone.
This prevents over-captioning ambient sounds the speaker ignores.

### Visual Reaction Signals (Module 2)

Four signals are scored independently and summed:

| Signal | Score | Condition |
|--------|-------|-----------|
| Velocity spike | +0.40 | Head moves >2σ above baseline for ≥2 frames |
| Sustained movement | +0.25 | Mean post-event velocity > 1.5× baseline |
| Freeze response | +0.15 | Sudden stillness after event (startle) |
| Mouth opens | +0.20 | Mouth openness increases >1.6× (gasp) |
| Scene diff fallback | +0.25–0.50 | Used when no face is detected |

---

## Installation

```bash
pip install tensorflow tensorflow-hub librosa moviepy mediapipe opencv-python srt numpy
```

**Tested on:** Python 3.10+, TensorFlow 2.19, CPU-only machine
**Note:** YAMNet is downloaded automatically on first run from TensorFlow Hub (~25MB).

---

## Usage

### Basic (English CC labels)
```bash
python intelligent_cc_pipeline.py --video sample.mp4
```

### Hindi CC labels
```bash
python intelligent_cc_pipeline.py --video sample.mp4 --lang hi
```

### Custom thresholds
```bash
python intelligent_cc_pipeline.py --video sample.mp4 \
--audio-thresh 0.4 \
--fusion-thresh 0.55
```

### All options
```
--video Path to input video (required)
--output Output .srt path (auto-named if omitted)
--audio-thresh YAMNet confidence threshold (default: 0.35)
--fusion-thresh Combined score threshold to approve CC (default: 0.50)
--lang 'en' or 'hi' (default: 'en')
--no-json Skip saving the JSON report
```

---

## Output Files

**`<video_name>_cc_suggestions.srt`** — Standard SRT subtitle file
```
1
00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:04,680
[GLASS BREAKING]

2
00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:12,520
[APPLAUSE]
```

**`<video_name>_cc_suggestions_report.json`** — Full pipeline report
```json
{
"total_events": 8,
"approved_cc": 3,
"audio_events": [...],
"visual_scores": [...],
"accepted_cc": [...]
}
```

---

## Design Decisions

### Why YAMNet?
YAMNet is pretrained on Google's AudioSet (2M+ clips, 521 classes) and runs
efficiently on CPU. It requires no fine-tuning for common sound events and
handles the wide range of events relevant to PlanetRead content (applause,
laughter, alarms, music, impacts). PANNs was evaluated as an alternative —
YAMNet was chosen for its lightweight inference and TensorFlow Hub availability.

### Why MediaPipe Face Mesh?
MediaPipe runs in real-time on CPU, provides 468 landmark points per face,
and is well-suited for the edge/server environments PlanetRead works with.
The 4-signal scoring approach (velocity spike, sustained movement, freeze,
mouth opening) captures different types of startle/reaction responses without
requiring a trained classifier.

### Why weight visual higher (0.55 vs 0.45)?
A speaker visibly reacting to a sound is unambiguous evidence that the sound
affects the narrative. High audio confidence alone (e.g., distant music) does
not necessarily warrant a CC. This weighting was determined empirically and is
easily tunable via `--fusion-thresh`.

### Consolidation logic
Consecutive YAMNet frames detecting the same sound class within 1.0 seconds
are merged into a single event. This prevents the same sound from generating
dozens of overlapping CC annotations.

---

## Known Limitations and Future Work

1. **YAMNet class coverage:** Some culturally specific Indian sounds (dhol,
shehnai, specific street sounds) may not be in YAMNet's 521-class vocabulary.
A fine-tuned model on Indian audio content would improve recall for regional
content.

2. **Single-face tracking:** Module 2 currently tracks only the primary face.
Multi-speaker scenes (talk shows, debates) would benefit from tracking all
visible speakers and triggering CC if any one of them reacts.

3. **No GPU acceleration:** The pipeline runs on CPU. GPU inference would
reduce processing time significantly for long-form content.

4. **SLS format:** The current output is standard SRT. PlanetRead's SLS format
has specific timing and encoding requirements that should be confirmed with
mentors and implemented as a post-processing step.

5. **Threshold tuning:** The default thresholds (audio=0.35, fusion=0.50) were
set conservatively. Optimal values should be determined through systematic
evaluation with PlanetRead editors on a labeled Hindi/regional video dataset.

---

## Demo Video

> 📹 https://youtu.be/zn3huIukfiY

The demo video shows the pipeline running on a sample video, with terminal
output for each module and the final SRT file being generated.

---

## Repository Structure

```
.
├── intelligent_cc_pipeline.py # Main pipeline (all 3 modules)
├── README.md # This file
├── sample_output.srt # Example SRT output
└── sample_report.json # Example JSON report
```
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