cupido/tasks/todo.md
Giorgio Gilestro 23050360ea Remove data/raw/ entirely — all bulky data now under /mnt/data/projects/cupido/
Deleted the 5 stale pre-pipeline tracking DBs and the data/raw/ directory.
Dropped DATA_RAW from config.py; build_video_inventory now scans
TRACKING_OUTPUT_DIR for already-tracked sessions. Notebooks no longer
import DATA_RAW. README, PLANNING and todo updated to reflect that the
repo holds only code + small curated metadata, never bulky DBs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-01 09:20:25 +01:00

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# Task List
## Completed Work
- [x] Extract ROI data from SQLite databases grouped by trained/untrained
- [x] Calculate inter-fly distances at each time point
- [x] Align data to barrier opening time (t=0)
- [x] Plot average distance over time (entire experiment + 300s window)
- [x] Track fly identities across frames (Hungarian algorithm)
- [x] Calculate max velocity over 10-second moving windows
- [x] Statistical tests (t-tests, Cohen's d) comparing groups
- [x] ML classification attempt (Logistic Regression, Random Forest)
- [x] Clustering analysis (K-means)
- [x] Organize project structure for student handoff
## Priority: Bimodal Hypothesis Analysis
See `docs/bimodal_hypothesis.md` for detailed methodology.
### Phase 1: Per-ROI Feature Extraction
- [ ] Compute per-ROI summary statistics from aligned distance data
- Mean distance post-opening (0-300s)
- Median distance post-opening
- Fraction of time at distance < 50px ("close proximity")
- Mean max velocity post-opening
- [ ] Create a summary DataFrame with N=18 trained + N=18 untrained rows
- [ ] **Note**: Only 30 ROIs have data (Machine 139 missing = 6 ROIs lost)
### Phase 2: Distribution Visualization
- [ ] Plot histograms/KDE of per-ROI metrics for each group
- [ ] Look for bimodality in trained group vs unimodality in untrained
### Phase 3: Formal Bimodality Testing
- [ ] Hartigan's dip test on trained per-ROI distributions
- [ ] Fit Gaussian Mixture Models (1 vs 2 components) to trained data
- [ ] Compare BIC scores to determine optimal number of components
### Phase 4: Subgroup Identification
- [ ] If bimodal: classify trained ROIs as "learner" vs "non-learner" using GMM posteriors
- [ ] Compare learner subgroup vs untrained group (expect larger effect size)
### Phase 5: Effect Size Re-estimation
- [ ] Mann-Whitney U test (appropriate for small N)
- [ ] Bootstrap confidence intervals for effect sizes
- [ ] Account for session as random effect
## Maintenance Items
- [ ] Investigate missing Machine 139 data (has metadata but no tracking DB)
- [ ] Add `diptest` to requirements.txt when starting bimodal analysis
- [ ] Consider converting pixel distances to physical units (need calibration)
- [ ] The second notebook (`flies_analysis.ipynb`) re-runs from DB extraction - consider deprecating
## Phase: Offline Tracking of 2024 Video Backlog (added 2026-04-27)
### Recap
Tracked so far (5 sessions, all from 2025-07-15, machines 076/145/268). Those
were re-tracked through the unified pipeline and now live at
`/mnt/data/projects/cupido/tracked/` (no separate `data/raw/` anymore the
old pre-pipeline copies were deleted on 2026-05-01).
The metadata file `/mnt/data/projects/cupido/all_video_info_merged.xlsx`
indexes a different set of experiments: 7 dates from 2024-09-17 2024-10-21,
16 ethoscope machines, 63 unique (date, machine) sessions = 484 ROI-rows.
Inventory: see `data/metadata/video_inventory.csv` (built by
`scripts/build_video_inventory.py`).
- 1163 video sessions on disk under `/mnt/ethoscope_data/videos/`
- 63/63 xlsx (date, machine) sessions have video on disk
- 129 video instances need tracking (some (date, machine) have 2-4 recordings/day)
### Plan
The HD-mating-arena videos have no auto-detectable targets the user must
manually click 3 reference points (L-shape: top, corner, left) per video. Once
all targets are picked, tracking can run in the background.
- [x] **Step 1 — Inventory**: `scripts/build_video_inventory.py`
`data/metadata/video_inventory.csv`. 63 (date,machine) sessions match
the xlsx, all videos found, 129 video instances need tracking.
- [x] **Step 2 — Manual target picker**: `scripts/pick_targets.py`. Loops over
videos with `in_xlsx & ~already_tracked & no JSON yet`; per video, shows
a representative frame, captures 3 clicks (top, corner, left), saves
`data/targets/<video_basename>.json`. Skips videos already done.
- [x] **Step 3 — Background tracker**: `scripts/track_videos.py`. Reads target
JSONs, builds 6 ROIs from the HD-mating-arena geometry, runs
`MovieVirtualCamera` + `MultiFlyTracker` + `SQLiteResultWriter`, writes
`data/tracked/<basename>_tracking.db`. Idempotent. Smoke-tested
end-to-end: 90s of video ~3000 rows/ROI, areas in 800-2000 band.
- [x] **Step 4 — Tracking deps**: `requirements-tracking.txt`.
### Still TODO
- [ ] User to run `pick_targets.py` (interactive needs DISPLAY) on the 129
pending videos.
- [ ] Run `track_videos.py --jobs 4` against the resulting JSONs.
- [ ] (Optional) `auto_detect_targets.py` exists as a fallback for videos that
DO have visible targets (saves clicks). Confirmed not useful on the
2025-07-15 batch these arenas don't have black target dots but worth
trying on 2024 batches before falling back to manual.
- [ ] Decide what to do with the 4 (date, machine) sessions that have 3-4
recordings/day instead of 2 (e.g. ETHOSCOPE_086 on 2024-09-17 has 4).
One of them is at lower resolution (1280x960) likely an aborted take.
### Open questions / risks
- Some (date, machine) combos have 3-4 recordings (e.g. ETHOSCOPE_086 on
2024-09-17). Need to figure out which is the real "test" video vs aborted
takes possibly use video duration or filename pattern.
- One mismatched-resolution file: `1280x960@25fps-20q` instead of
`1920x1088@25fps-28q` flag for inspection.
- The original `ConstrainedMultiFlyTracker` is no longer in the ethoscope repo;
`MultiFlyTracker` is its likely successor. Validate output schema matches
what the existing analysis pipeline expects (`load_roi_data.py`, etc.).
## Discovered During Work
### Barrier-opening annotation for the 2024 batch (added 2026-04-30)
The current `flies_analysis*.ipynb` aligns trajectories to a barrier-opening
event sourced from `data/metadata/2025_07_15_barrier_opening.csv`. That file
covers only the 5 machines in the 2025-07-15 experiment. The 2024 batch
(`/mnt/data/projects/cupido/tracked/`, 113 DBs) has no equivalent annotation
yet, so all post-alignment cells silently exclude that data.
- [ ] Build a small picker that lets the user scrub through each tracking
DB / video and mark the barrier-opening frame, writing a row to a new
`data/metadata/barrier_opening_2024.csv` (or extend the existing
file with a date column).
- [ ] Once the 2024 entries exist, update `align_to_opening_time` so it
pulls from a unified `barrier_opening` table keyed by
`(date, machine_name)` rather than `machine_name` alone.
### Metadata vocabulary normalization (done 2026-04-30)
The xlsx had inconsistent labels for control flies (`'naïve'`, `'niave'`,
`'untrained'` plus trailing whitespace). All sources now use a single
canonical `'naive'`. Normalization happens in
`scripts/export_video_db_index.py` so re-running it from the xlsx always
produces a clean TSV. The 2025-07-15 legacy CSV
(`data/metadata/2025_07_15_metadata_fixed.csv`) was edited in place from
`'untrained'` `'naive'`.