Recover depth

The suite has assumed throughout that a photograph holds no depth, because it was lost at capture. That is true of most photographs and not of all of them. A spatial capture holds two views, a Portrait capture holds a measured depth map, and an Android Portrait holds one with its metric range declared. This reads the file to find out which you have, and measures whether the picture can be matched at all — both before any of the estimating starts.

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Where it sits in the file

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What to do with a hit. The suite cannot yet consume a stereo pair or an auxiliary map directly — that is the recovery tool this page is the front half of. What it can do today is tell you not to waste the estimating. If a file holds recorded depth, extract it with the tools listed in the handoff notes, then load the result into the workbench as a depth map rather than letting the estimate guess.

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Why the numbers come first. Every figure above is fixed arithmetic on the pixels, so the same image gives the same answer forever, and you can copy the JSON and check it. The coach is handed those numbers and never sees the photograph — it cannot invent a measurement, only interpret one. Sending the picture to a model and asking what is wrong with it would produce a different confident answer every time, which is worse than no tool because it feels like measurement.