[vangel76]

Summary

matting::distance (the 1D distance-transform passes behind signed_distance) allocated four vectors per column, three per row and a staging copy for the columns. Both passes stay parallel: the column pass runs on a transposed buffer (each column is a contiguous chunk) and rayon's for_each_init gives each work split one set of scratch vectors instead of four allocations per line. The dt1 arithmetic is unchanged.

Fixes #2324

Numbers

distance on a 1080p disk mask, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D (16 cores / 32 threads), Windows 11, wall time, median of 15 calls, three alternating rounds (the machine had other builds running, so single rounds vary):

	1 thread	32 threads
main (per-line vectors, parallel)	32-36 ms	9.7-10.1 ms
first version of this PR (serial, shared scratch)	25-27 ms	25-37 ms
this PR (parallel, scratch per split)	25-26 ms (one outlier at 42 ms)	5.2-5.5 ms

roto_perf_1080p propagate, 32 threads, median of 3 single runs: main 258 ms, serial version 379 ms, this PR 231 ms.

Verification

• New test distance_is_bit_identical_to_the_per_line_version keeps the old per-line implementation and compares to_bits() on a disk, its inverse, 1xN, Nx1, all-true, all-false, seeds on the frame edge and a sparse 333x211 pattern.
• cargo test --release -p effectcraft-track passes (101 tests), cargo fmt --all -- --check and cargo clippy -p effectcraft-track --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean.
• Ignored benchmark: cargo test --release -p effectcraft-track distance_bench -- --ignored --nocapture (prints the rayon thread count).

A similar scratch reuse for box_mean was tried and rejected: -1.8 % instructions but +50 % wall time.

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• Improvements
  • Image matting now uses fewer temporary memory allocations when calculating distance transforms, which may improve processing efficiency. Distance values and behavior for empty images remain unchanged.
• Tests
  • Added comparisons across varied image dimensions, including tall and one-pixel-wide images, to verify results remain consistent with the previous implementation. An additional benchmark is available for performance evaluation.

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Walkthrough

distance transforms columns in a transposed buffer and reuses scratch vectors across its column and row passes. Tests compare outputs bit-for-bit with a reference implementation across varied dimensions and seed patterns.

Changes: Distance transform

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reuse scratch buffers for both passes crates/track/src/roto/matting.rs	distance uses a transposed buffer for the column pass and reuses per-worker scratch vectors. Tests compare results with the reference implementation, including a tall, one-pixel-wide input, and include an ignored 1080p benchmark.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: dylanmtaylor

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 8d4dd

The transform reuses scratch storage without changing its indexing. No merge-blocking risk was identified.

Architecture risk: Low · up to 01ce3

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• observed — Modified behavior in crates/track/src/roto/matting.rs: distance replaces parallel column and row transforms, which allocated temporary vectors per line, with serial transforms that reuse shared f, d, v, and z buffers sized to max(w, h). It gathers and writes each column, then copies each row through the same buffers; the distance-transform results and later square-root conversion are unchanged.

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Issue [#2324] requires scratch reuse for both distance passes, removal of per-column result allocation, unchanged dt1 arithmetic, and bit-identical output. crates/track/src/roto/matting.rs uses Rayon for_each_init with line-sized scratch vectors for columns and rows. It uses one transposed column buffer instead of per-column vectors. The dt1 function is unchanged. Tests compare the new result with the previous implementation across the required edge and representative inputs. The reported crate tests and quality checks support the implementation.

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[vangel76]

This PR is one of 17 from a speed audit of crates/track and its callers (issues #2317-#2330, #2322, #2349). Overview of what each one measured, so the effect is visible in one place:

PR	Area	Measured (single thread, before -> after)	Output
#2332	Subspace Warp plan()	22.3 G -> 4.8 G instructions (4.7x, Automatic); 33.7 G -> 5.2 G (6.5x, Enhanced); 24x on clean low-rank trajectories	rounding level, at most 2.7e-6 px
#2331	KLT lk_point (Warp Stabilizer analysis, mask tracking)	analysis 3.84 s -> 1.44 s (2.6x), mask tracking 1.57 s -> 0.95 s	bit-identical
#2339	Point tracker (NCC taps, gradient window)	54.6 G -> 31.0 G instructions (1.76x)	bit-identical
#2334	Face tracker polygon test	12.5 G -> 2.2 G instructions (5.7x)	bit-identical
#2337	Mask tracker frame clone	4K: 3.42 s -> 2.19 s (-36 %); 1080p -5 %	identical outline
#2335	Roto Brush propagate band crop	208.5 G -> 172.0 G instructions per 20 frames (-17.5 %)	bit-identical
#2333	Roto Brush distance transform	3.04 G -> 2.80 G instructions (-8 %)	bit-identical
#2346	Camera solve, long tracks (matrix-free Schur)	44.6 G -> 4.2 G instructions (10.6x), timed loop 1966 ms -> 216 ms	practically identical (reprojection < 1e-9 px), direct fallback
#2342	Camera solve, short tracks (band Cholesky)	8.34 G -> 3.40 G instructions (2.46x)	bit-identical
#2338	triangulate allocations	2.38 G -> 1.32 G instructions (1.81x)	bit-identical
#2340	BA Jacobian on the stack	13.4 G -> 12.6 G instructions (-6.2 %)	bit-identical
#2345	null_vector without unused SVD output	-0.96 % instructions	bit-identical
#2351	Point tracker, 3x3 refine when the motion was small (stacked on #2339)	another 31.0 G -> 20.2 G instructions (1.54x) on top of #2339	not bit-identical by design, accuracy unchanged in all 8 ground-truth cases
#2348	Warp Stabilizer / Camera Tracker analysis lookup per render	0.73 ms -> 0.014 ms per call for 300 frames (about 50x)	identical
#2347	Warp Stabilizer default plan computed twice	first render 2313 ms -> 1156 ms (-50 % instructions)	identical pixels
#2350	Warp analysis shares one luma pyramid	87.7 G -> 81.8 G instructions (-6.8 %)	identical analysis JSON
#2341	Input validation (panics, NaN, allocation budget)	correctness fix, +6.1 % instructions on valid input	valid input unchanged

Notes:

• All numbers are single-thread (RAYON_NUM_THREADS=1), perf stat -e instructions:u (the PRs that quote time use the timed kernel), base and branch alternated, medians. They are kernel/stage measurements from each PR's own benchmark, not one end-to-end number for the whole tracker; the stages mostly act on different features (point tracking, Warp Stabilizer, mask tracking, Roto Brush, camera solve, effect caches), so they do not simply multiply.
• Not every PR is a speedup: Camera tracking: skip unused SVD output work in null-vector queries #2345 is a small gain and Camera tracking: validate solver input and bound workspaces #2341 costs a little on valid input in exchange for fixing the panics and NaN results from camtrack: invalid or non-finite input panics or yields NaN (bundle, select_pose, Track2D) #2330.
• The PRs touch disjoint files except where noted in their bodies (Camera tracking: avoid per-view triangulation allocations #2338/Camera tracking: keep bundle-adjustment Jacobians on the stack #2340/Camera tracking: validate solver input and bound workspaces #2341 share files and merge independently; Reuse the validated Warp Stabilizer plan on first render #2347/Reuse Warp Stabilizer and Camera Tracker analysis keys #2348 share the effects analysis cache and may need adjacent tests combined; Point tracker: refine in a 3x3 neighbourhood when the motion was small #2351 is stacked on Point tracker: candidates share one tap table, gradients only where lk_refine reads them (#2318) #2339; Camera tracking: factor narrow camera systems within their band #2342/Camera tracking: skip unused SVD output work in null-vector queries #2345/Avoid quadratic Schur assembly for long camera tracks #2346 touch camtrack/linalg.rs, umeyama from 3D rotation order, keyed Orientation, linear-to-eased keyframes and Timewarp behave as in After Effects #1876 is untouched).

[bflatastic]

Thanks @vangel76! This removes the rayon parallelism in roto/matting.rs (into_par_iter / par_chunks_mut) and was measured with RAYON_NUM_THREADS=1. signed_distance runs once per frame at the top level, so wall time on a multicore machine will likely get worse. Could you keep the parallel loops with per-thread scratch (map_init / for_each_init) and report multithreaded wall time?

[FredApps]

ReviewerA — source-read COMMENT (not an approval)

I read the whole diff: the Roto Brush distance transform drops the parallel per-column pass and reuses four scratch vectors sequentially. The stated reason is a single-thread measurement (dt1 self time 17.5% of propagate). That measurement says allocation is costly, but it doesn't show that going serial is faster on a multi-core machine, which is where users run this. Please add a multi-thread benchmark (or keep par_iter with per-thread scratch via map_init/for_each_init) and a test that the output is bit-identical to the old implementation on a few seed masks.

I ran nothing and have no exact-head CI result for this PR, so this is not an approval. Where a diff was long I read its code hunks rather than every generated or documentation line.

Status: waiting_author.

[vangel76]

@bflatastic sorry for the slow reply, I lost track of this PR. Thanks for the review; I'm working through your points (and the other review comments here) now and will reply point by point with the fixes.

[vangel76]

@bflatastic @FredApps thanks, you were right: the serial version was slower on a multicore machine. Fixed in 7a3463f.

• The column and row passes are parallel again. The column pass runs on a transposed buffer so each column is a contiguous chunk; for_each_init gives each rayon work split one set of scratch vectors (instead of four allocations per line). The square root is folded into the row pass.
• Bit-identity: distance_is_bit_identical_to_the_per_line_version keeps the old implementation in the test module and compares to_bits() on a disk, its inverse, 1xN, Nx1, all-true, all-false, seeds on the frame edge and a sparse 333x211 pattern.
• Wall time, distance on a 1080p disk, Ryzen 9 7950X3D (16C/32T), Windows 11, median of 15 calls, three alternating rounds (other builds were running, so rounds vary):

	1 thread	32 threads
main	32-36 ms	9.7-10.1 ms
serial (previous head)	25-27 ms	25-37 ms
this head	25-26 ms	5.2-5.5 ms

roto_perf_1080p propagate at 32 threads (median of 3 single runs): main 258 ms, serial 379 ms, this head 231 ms. The thread count is printed by the benchmark (rayon::current_num_threads()), so the 32-thread runs did use 32 threads. The PR body is updated with these numbers.

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