Command-line tools

pyLACE ships eleven console_scripts entry points covering the full calibrate → detect → clean → audit → review pipeline.

CLI

What it does

pylace-annotate

Annotate a reference frame; emit the arena sidecar JSON.

pylace-tune

Live preview to tune background + detector params.

pylace-roi

Standalone ROI editor for an existing sidecar.

pylace-detect

Run the detection pipeline; emit per-detection CSV.

pylace-clean

Detections CSV → cleaned per-frame trajectory CSV.

pylace-fingerprint

Build per-track appearance medians from confident frames.

pylace-audit

Cost + appearance + verdict-aware identity-swap audit.

pylace-candidates

Audit-independent candidate detector (contact, jump, NaN).

pylace-explore

Interactive inspector; --review opens the review dock.

pylace-metrics

Summarise an audited trajectory.

pylace-inspect

Lightweight viewer for raw detections.

Three-pass review workflow

# 1. find candidate frames where identity is at risk
pylace-candidates  video.pylace_trajectory.csv

# 2. run the cost-based audit
pylace-audit       video.pylace_trajectory.csv

# 3. open the GUI with the review dock
pylace-explore     video.mp4 video.pylace_audited.csv --review

# 4. re-run the audit; the verdicts sidecar is auto-detected
pylace-audit       video.pylace_trajectory.csv

Verdict keys in the GUI: a accept-swap (uses the spinbox permutation — pair-swap or 3-way cycle), r reject-swap, m mount (rows tagged event_type=mount in the audited CSV and dropped by downstream readers unless --include-mount), u unknown.

Per-CLI --help

Each entry point honours --help; the smoke-test suite asserts that main(["--help"]) exits with status 0 for every entry point.