feat(vision): pluggable llama.cpp/GGUF Tier-2 VLM backend (stronger judge)

The director's vision JUDGE is only as good as its model, and moondream2 can't
perceive some actions on hard footage (R15 ceiling). Make the captioner backend a
config choice so a stronger local VLM drops in with no code change:

- tools/vision_caption_llamacpp.py: same manifest->JSON contract as
  tools/vision_caption.py, but backed by llama.cpp `llama-mtmd-cli` (GGUF). Runs on
  this x86 CPU via AVX and bypasses the torch==2.2.2 / transformers 4.x trap
  entirely (no PyTorch). Model/mmproj/binary paths come from env vars; fully
  offline, serverless (per-frame CLI, mmap stays warm).
- editing.vision-caption-script selects the worker (default: moondream). The Java
  HighlightVisionDirector now reads the configured script instead of a hardcoded
  path -- nothing else changes.
- docs/LOCAL-MODELS.md: provisioning + enablement for Qwen2.5-VL-3B (Apache-2.0)
  via llama.cpp; alternatives (Qwen3-VL, Gemma 3 4B). Honest note: likely improves
  the bowling case but unverified until tested with real weights.

mvn verify: 293 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -37,3 +37,46 @@ can be reproduced (reference environment: **x86_64 macOS, no GPU**; a Linux/GPU
- **Licensing blocker for commercial use:** MusicGen (CC-BY-NC), AudioLDM2 (CC-BY-NC-SA) and YOLOv8 (AGPL) are
non-commercial/copyleft. Swap in commercially-licensed models/assets before any commercial release. moondream2
(Apache-2.0) and Piper are fine.
## Optional stronger Tier-2 VLM: Qwen2.5-VL via llama.cpp (recommended upgrade)
moondream2 is small and, on hard footage (distant, portrait), cannot reliably tell a highlight from an
aftermath — which caps the director's vision **judge** (see `docs/cinematic-quality-rules.md` R15). A stronger
local VLM is a **drop-in**: the director calls a captioner script with a fixed manifest→JSON contract, so only
the configured script path changes. **`tools/vision_caption_llamacpp.py`** implements that contract against
**llama.cpp** (GGUF) — which runs on this **x86 CPU via AVX SIMD** and **bypasses the torch==2.2.2 /
transformers 4.x / no-xformers trap entirely** (no PyTorch involved).
**Recommended model:** `Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct` (Apache-2.0 — commercial-friendly; verify the model card),
`Q4_K_M` GGUF + its `mmproj` vision projector. `Qwen3-VL-2B/4B` (official GGUF) or `Gemma 3 4B` are alternatives.
Provision **offline** (on a networked machine, then copy the files over — nothing downloads at service runtime):
```bash
# 1) Build llama.cpp with the multimodal CLI (one-time, needs a compiler; NOT in a certified/offline env)
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp && cd llama.cpp && cmake -B build && cmake --build build -j
# -> produces build/bin/llama-mtmd-cli
# 2) Fetch the GGUF weights + mmproj (e.g. from a bartowski/Mungert/official Qwen GGUF repo)
# Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf and mmproj-Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-f16.gguf
# Record license/SHA-256 next to each file, per the asset-provenance policy.
```
Enable it (no code change — config + env only):
```yaml
# application-localpoc.yml (video-clipping.editing)
vision-caption-script: ./tools/vision_caption_llamacpp.py
```
```bash
export LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN=/abs/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-mtmd-cli
export LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL=/abs/models/qwen2.5-vl-3b/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf
export LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ=/abs/models/qwen2.5-vl-3b/mmproj-Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-f16.gguf
# LLAMACPP_VLM_NTOKENS=64 (optional)
```
Notes: the worker invokes `llama-mtmd-cli` per frame (serverless, fully offline; the mmap'd model stays warm in
the OS cache across frames). A persistent `llama-server` backend would be faster for large batches — a future
optimisation, not required. It is **unverified whether Qwen2.5-VL breaks the specific bowling case** — it is
substantially more capable than moondream, so it likely improves discrimination, but that is a hypothesis to
test, not a guarantee.

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@ -563,6 +563,13 @@ public class VideoClippingProperties {
/** Frames sampled per shot for subject tracking (more = smoother path, slower). */
private int subjectTrackSamples = 5;
/**
* Tier-2 vision captioner script. Default is the moondream2 (transformers) worker. Set to
* {@code ./tools/vision_caption_llamacpp.py} to use a stronger GGUF VLM via llama.cpp (e.g.
* Qwen2.5-VL-3B) same manifest/output contract, so nothing else changes. See docs/LOCAL-MODELS.md.
*/
private String visionCaptionScript = "./tools/vision_caption.py";
/**
* Max length (seconds) of the montage's single pre-climax "action/tension" build shot. Caps the case
* where a distant action spike on a long source produces one ultra-long continuous shot (dead air +
@ -821,6 +828,14 @@ public class VideoClippingProperties {
this.subjectTrackSamples = subjectTrackSamples;
}
public String getVisionCaptionScript() {
return visionCaptionScript;
}
public void setVisionCaptionScript(String visionCaptionScript) {
this.visionCaptionScript = visionCaptionScript;
}
public double getMontageMaxBuildSeconds() {
return montageMaxBuildSeconds;
}

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public class HighlightVisionDirector {
private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HighlightVisionDirector.class);
private static final String SCRIPT = "tools/vision_caption.py";
private static final long TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 600;
/**
* A descriptive, open-ended question. Small VLMs give far more discriminative answers to this than to a
@ -40,11 +39,13 @@ public class HighlightVisionDirector {
private final VideoClippingProperties.Editing.LocalAssetWorker worker;
private final String ffmpegBinary;
private final String captionScript;
private final ObjectMapper objectMapper;
public HighlightVisionDirector(VideoClippingProperties properties, ObjectMapper objectMapper) {
this.worker = properties.getEditing().getLocalAssetWorker();
this.ffmpegBinary = properties.getEditing().getFfmpegBinary();
this.captionScript = properties.getEditing().getVisionCaptionScript();
this.objectMapper = objectMapper;
}
@ -379,7 +380,7 @@ public class HighlightVisionDirector {
Path outputFile = workDir.resolve("vision-captions.json");
objectMapper.writeValue(manifestFile.toFile(), manifest);
List<String> command = List.of(worker.getPythonBinary(), SCRIPT,
List<String> command = List.of(worker.getPythonBinary(), captionScript,
"--manifest", manifestFile.toString(), "--output", outputFile.toString());
Process process = new ProcessBuilder(command).redirectErrorStream(true).start();
String out = new String(process.getInputStream().readAllBytes(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Tier-2 vision captioner backed by llama.cpp (GGUF) instead of PyTorch/transformers.
Drop-in replacement for tools/vision_caption.py: SAME manifest/output contract, so the Java
HighlightVisionDirector is unchanged only the configured script path differs. Uses a stronger local VLM
(e.g. Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct) through llama.cpp's multimodal CLI (`llama-mtmd-cli --mmproj`), which runs on
this Intel x86 CPU via AVX SIMD and sidesteps the torch==2.2.2 / transformers 4.x version trap entirely.
Manifest JSON: [{"id": "...", "image": "/abs/path.jpg", "question": "..."}]
Output JSON: [{"id": "...", "answer": "..."}]
Fully offline. Paths come from env vars (so the Java side needs no backend-specific args):
LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN path to the llama.cpp `llama-mtmd-cli` binary (required)
LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL path to the VLM GGUF weights, e.g. Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf (required)
LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ path to the matching multimodal projector GGUF (mmproj-*.gguf) (required)
LLAMACPP_VLM_NTOKENS max tokens to generate per answer (optional, default 64)
Per-frame invocation keeps the worker simple and serverless (no loopback). The model is memory-mapped, so
after the first call the OS page cache keeps repeated loads cheap. For heavy batches a persistent
`llama-server` backend would be faster a documented future optimisation, not required here.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import os
import re
import subprocess
import sys
def _clean(text: str) -> str:
# Strip llama.cpp control/log noise and whitespace; keep the model's answer text.
text = text.replace("\x1b[0m", "").strip()
# Drop obvious log lines (timings, "llama_", "main:", "mtmd_", "encoding image") if any leak to stdout.
lines = [ln for ln in text.splitlines()
if ln.strip() and not re.match(r"^(llama_|main:|mtmd_|clip_|ggml_|build:|load|encoding image|\s*[\d.]+\s*(ms|tokens))",
ln.strip(), re.IGNORECASE)]
return " ".join(lines).strip()
def _caption(binary: str, model: str, mmproj: str, image: str, question: str, ntokens: int) -> str:
command = [
binary, "-m", model, "--mmproj", mmproj, "--image", image,
"-p", question, "--temp", "0", "-n", str(ntokens),
]
proc = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=600)
if proc.returncode != 0:
sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: cli failed (%s): %s\n" % (proc.returncode, proc.stderr[-500:]))
return ""
return _clean(proc.stdout)
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Local VLM frame captioner (llama.cpp / GGUF)")
parser.add_argument("--manifest", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--output", required=True)
args = parser.parse_args()
binary = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN", "")
model = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL", "")
mmproj = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ", "")
ntokens = int(os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_NTOKENS", "64"))
missing = [name for name, val in
(("LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN", binary), ("LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL", model), ("LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ", mmproj))
if not val or not os.path.exists(val)]
if missing:
sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: missing/invalid env paths: %s\n" % ", ".join(missing))
return 2
with open(args.manifest, "r", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
items = json.load(handle)
results = []
for item in items:
answer = ""
try:
answer = _caption(binary, model, mmproj, item["image"], item["question"], ntokens)
except Exception as exc: # a single bad frame must never fail the batch
sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: frame %s failed: %s\n" % (item.get("id"), exc))
results.append({"id": item.get("id"), "answer": answer})
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(args.output)), exist_ok=True)
with open(args.output, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
json.dump(results, handle, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())