Scanner — Splatoon match-event detection
Browser app (route /scanner, dev-only until promoted) that watches OBS
Virtual Camera footage, VoD files, or screenshots, detects Splatoon 3 UI
screens with OpenCV.js in a Web Worker, and parses them into events speaking
sendou.ink ids (ModeShort/StageId/weapon ids/Ability). Events aggregate
client-side into ScannerMatch objects (core/scanner-match.ts) — one
detected game per object, every field nullable — which feed /ingest
(features/scanner-ingest) and the /vods/new prefill. Imported from the
emberz repo; see MIGRATION.md there.
Deliberate convention exceptions (dev tool, ported wholesale): the UI is
English-only (no i18next) and tests/node-test-compat.ts uses a default
export to stay a node:test drop-in.
Commands
pnpm test:scanner # golden-file suite over tests/fixtures/ (Vitest, Node)
pnpm scanner:report # accuracy table + name character error rate across fixtures
pnpm scanner:fixtures [name-substring] # run detectors over matching fixtures, verbose
pnpm scanner:replay <dir> <startT> <fps> # replay ffmpeg-extracted frames through the scheduler+detectors
pnpm scanner:scan-vod <video> # VoD-tab scan as a CLI (ffmpeg): video in, events CSV out
pnpm scanner:status-audit <events.csv> # diff the CSV's timeline vs scoreboard D/S, rank fixture candidates
pnpm scanner:bootstrap-atlas # harvest labeled fixture crops into the glyph atlases
pnpm scanner:build-glyph-atlas # add the font-rendered charset (fonts required, see below)
pnpm scanner:build-localized-entries # regen localized closed sets from ../splat3
pnpm scanner:build-planner-signatures # regen the minimap stage-ID atlas from the assets repo
Scanner scripts run through vite-node -c scripts/scanner/vite-node.config.ts:
the root vite config pre-bundles @techstark/opencv-js for the browser worker
and vite-node must not consume that prebundle. The package is pnpm-patched
(patches/) to wrap its thenable CJS export as { cvReadyPromise },
unwrapped in core/cv.ts.
Architecture
sequenceDiagram
participant Cap as capture (sampler / vod-frames)
participant W as analyzer.worker (OpenCV)
participant TL as TimelineBuilder
participant MB as match-builder
participant UI as Live/VoD tab
participant ING as /ingest (scanner-ingest)
participant DB as IngestedMatch / IngestedMatchLink
Cap->>W: frame + t (live/screenshot/seek) — VoD: worker decodes its own slice
W->>W: scheduler dueDetectors() → gate() → parse()
W-->>TL: DetectedEvents
TL-->>UI: deduped timeline (IndexedDB on Live)
UI->>MB: buildScannerMatches(events)
MB-->>UI: ScannerMatch[] + source events
UI->>ING: POST { matches } (Live: on match close / scan end, VoD: whole scan)
ING->>ING: resolve context (current tournament/SendouQ activity, casts via staff roles, else content sequence ≥2)
ING->>DB: merge-store IngestedMatch (matchHash, isSameMatch + merge, context hints)
ING->>DB: link matches to game results → IngestedMatchLink (POV weapon → ReportedWeapon; scoreboards derived at read time)
Note over UI: VoD "Add VoD": ScannerMatch → slim prefill param → /vods/new
core/is pure (mats in, events/matches out) and runs in the worker, the Screenshot tab, and Node tests. No DOM/browser APIs; Node-only helpers live innode/. Pure data/type imports from~/modulesand~/features/build-analyzer/dataare fine — zod and the app config graph are not (schemas live inscanner-schemas.ts; core onlyimport types the shapes).core/match-builder.tsturns a timeline intoScannerMatches: a MapStart opens a match, a scoreboard closes one (claiming the last 8 min of deaths when the intro was missed), minimaps group per map by confirmed stage change and >5 min gap. An event belongs to at most one match; deaths reveal enemy builds (ability-harvest.ts). Partial matches are fine — scanner-ingest merges them server-side. Senders filter withingestSkipReasons: private/unread lobby only, and no games a disconnect cut short (scoreless + counter left more time than the footage did, or replayed right after on the same map — the latter is a VoD-scan filter in practice since it only resolves after the fact).- The route (
routes/scanner.tsx) is SSR-guarded: the client tree loads viaReact.lazyafteruseHydrated; nothing fromcore/worker/capture/storemay be imported at route-module top level. - Eight detectors:
scoreboard(results screen),scoreboard-battle-log-replay(replay-browser detail),scoreboard-battle-log(Recent Battles detail — same data sans replay code, panels stacked),scoreboard-own(personal results),death(respawn overlay),map-start(match intro),minimap(in-match overlay- casted 8-player spectator variant),
objective(ranked counter overlay: counts, penalties, holder, match timer — a mode-discriminated union with only the SZ member so far). The objective parse also emits a second event type per read:PlayerStatus(core/detectors/objective/player-status.ts), per-player special/dead flags off the icon strip flanking the timer (POV and casted spectator geometries; D-pad camera badges prove the cast layout, but broadcasts can hide them while keeping cast geometry, so a badge-less frame scores both geometries on how decisively the bodies read and sticks with the established layout unless the other wins clearly — the special-ready wash also pulses, so its dim trough is told apart from a splat by its pale body, and a cast-layout ready read must also see a washed (ink-poor) body: pale backdrop or the lead banner leaking past an icon edge fakes the shoulder glow on the overhead map view's badge-less strip), with the sametimevalue so the two reads pair downstream; its fixtures live undertests/fixtures/player-status/. Within a side the strip's slot order is the lobby seating, while the results scoreboard re-sorts each team per game (attested in the sendou-triton VoD: strip [Planetz, .52, Neo Splash, Snipewriter] vs rows [.52, Neo Splash, Snipewriter, Planetz], and the orders differ per game while the seating holds) — so every 5th counter read also samples aStripWeaponsevidence event: a ranked weapon-icon match per alive slot (the squid plate's team ink is hue-knocked-out to flat grey first; splatted slots grey the render out and are skipped). Single reads rank the true weapon top-1 only about half the time; the builder aggregates them across the match — plus the minimap cards' parsed weapons, whose column order mirrors the strip seating (attested for the enemy column) — and takes the best-scoring of the 24 slot→row assignments against the scoreboard's weapons (core/slot-row-assignment.ts), falling back to as-drawn order on thin or tied evidence. The POV overlay's teammate diamond follows neither order and maps by card name instead. Strip-weapon fixtures live undertests/fixtures/strip-weapons/. The builder additionally flips sub-2s dead-flag runs flanked by dense opposite reads — a splat outlasts the respawn wait, so those are misread blips (background ink bleeding through a crossed-out icon) — and bridges sub-10s not-ready gaps between ready reads when no death inside the gap explains them (no special regains that fast, so the gap is the wash's dim pulse trough). Objective reads land onScannerMatchas progress samples anchored to the game clock; broadcast replay wipes re-run an earlier moment with the counter intact, so the builder keeps only the dominant cluster of clock-zero projections (t + time) and drops replay reads outright (timerless reads follow their preceding anchored neighbor). A displayed count only ever ticks down, so the builder keeps each side's longest non-increasing score run and voids reads off it (surviving OCR blips chart as gaps, not dips). Each read also carries a per-side team ink color (core/ink-color.ts— the plate fill in control, the digit ink otherwise): casted footage keeps the specced player's team on the left plate, so the builder orients samples by ink hue and anchors them toteamsorder via the minimap sub-tile colors (casts never show a results screen). Reads grouping into a match whose detected mode is not SZ are lookalike misreads: the builder nulls that match'sobjectiveand callers discard the events (invalidObjectiveEvents; Live also stops collecting once a MapStart reveals a non-SZ mode). PlayerStatus reads follow the objective pipeline wholesale: same replay-wipe anchor, cast orientation inherited from the nearest counter read, nulled together on non-SZ matches, and rendered as per-player splat/special bands (~/components/PlayerStatusTimeline.tsx, shared with the match page) above the objective chart. Minimap reads feed the same samples: every card/row carriesdead(respawn cross-out) andspecialReady(special camo) flags, merged in timerless on the shared replay anchor — and mode-agnostic, so a known non-SZ match keeps its minimap-sourced samples while its counter/status misreads are voided. Parsing details are in each detector's module header; accuracy-critical matching internals incore/glyphs.tsandcore/detectors/scoreboard/weapons.ts— read those before touching recognition code.
- casted 8-player spectator variant),
- Scheduling (
core/detectors/scheduler.ts): the per-session DetectorScheduler decides which detectors see a frame. Failing gates are re-checked everysearchIntervalS(0.25s — produced VoDs cut screens to ~1s, and gates are ~ms-cheap); a passing gate drops to the dense refine cadence (refineIntervalSoverrides for expensive parses). Suppression ends a refinement streak on parse-count stagnation AND ~3s elapsed (the floor spans entry animations), or immediately atsufficientConfidence(set just under each detector's measured clean-read floor); death addsrearmCooldownS. Battle-log/replay gates return a contentsignatureso browsing distinct entries re-parses once per battle instead of dropping the gate.checkIntervalShard-caps both phases;attachFrame: falsekeeps continuously-firing events from storing a frame PNG each. Frames no detector is due for skip canvas readback, and everything is counted incore/detectors/telemetry.ts— but only when the VoD tab is opened with?telemetry=true(nothing links there); otherwise the workers skip collection and the panel stays hidden. A match's objective reads render as one step-line timeline (~/components/ObjectiveTimeline.tsx, shared with the match page). - VoD scans (
components/VodPage.tsx): on the WebCodecs path each worker demuxes + decodes its own contiguous slice (mediabunny in the worker — no frames cross the main thread). When the scheduler reports calm (no gate pass for a quiet period, no open match), the worker skims keyframe-to-keyframe (hop capped at 2.5s so short screens can't hide), snapping back to dense decode on any gate pass. The seek fallback drives one worker and widens its stride over calm footage the same way. - Recognition is language-agnostic: OCR output snaps against every game
language at once (
core/localized-entries.ts, generated) and events carry sendou ids. English display names come fromcomponents/labels.ts. - ROI coordinates live in each detector's
rois.ts, in canonical 1920×1080 space; every frame is normalized to that size first. - New event types implement
Detector(core/detectors/types.ts): a cheapgate(mat)at sample rate plusparse(mat, t)when the gate fires. Register incore/detectors/registry.ts.
Assets (CDN) and fonts
Weapon/ability/special/sub template sources are the site's shared game icons
in the sendou-ink/assets repo under assets/img/** (.avif; ids from
~/modules/in-game-lists, plus the scanner-only UNKNOWN ability badge —
toAbilityWithUnknown narrows template ids back to sendou ids).
Scanner-specific sets — glyph atlases and the planner signature atlas — live
here under public/scanner/v1/** (override with SCANNER_ASSETS_DIR; the
version segment bumps on breaking atlas-format changes). xxx: the atlases are
in public/ only while the feature is in development — move them to the
assets repo (and the worker back to the CDN base) later.
- Browser/worker: icons from
Config.staticAssetsUrlatimg/**(base URL rides the worker init message; the DO Space needs CORS for GET from sendou.ink + localhost); atlases same-origin from/scanner/v1/**. Local dev against fresh icon regens:npx serve /Users/kalle/Developer/assets/assets -l 9100 --corsandVITE_STATIC_ASSETS_URL=http://localhost:9100in.env. - Node (tests/scripts): atlases from
public/scanner/v1, icons from the../assetscheckout, never the CDN. AVIF decodes throughsharp(node/image-io.ts) —@napi-rs/canvasmis-decodes AVIF partial-alpha. - Atlas regens overwrite
public/scanner/v1in place and ship with the app build.
Fonts are proprietary and gitignored: BlitzMain.otf, BlitzBold.otf,
FOT-RowdyStd-EB.otf, FOT-KurokaneStd-EB.otf in assets/fonts/ (repo
root; from the splatoon3-fonts repo). Atlas builders fail loudly without
them. Names and row digits use BlitzMain; team totals BlitzBold; the replay
code line and VICTORY/DEFEAT tags FOT-RowdyStd-EB; the JP death message mixes
condensed Kurokane and Rowdy (death-weapon-ja). Regeneration order:
scanner:bootstrap-atlas (fixture crops win via tie-break) →
scanner:build-glyph-atlas; localized sets via
scanner:build-localized-entries (expects a splat3 checkout at ../splat3)
then the atlas rebuild; planner atlas via scanner:build-planner-signatures
(reads the assets repo's assets/planner-maps/, MINI variant).
Fixtures
A test case is a directory tests/fixtures/<detector>/<case-name>/ with
frame.png|jpg (raw capture, never re-encoded) and expected.json (partial
expectations, sendou ids; stageLabel/weaponLabel are informational for
the human corrector — tests compare only ids). Negative cases
({ "event": "none" }) go in the shared tests/fixtures/negative/; every
detector's suite sweeps them. Every live misread should become a fixture —
the live app's "Save fixture" button exports the byte-exact analyzed frame
plus a prefilled expected.json. Fixture ground-truth labels are
hand-corrected by the user (the Splatoon domain authority) — treat them as
definitive over any matcher output. Fixtures are committed as plain blobs
(no LFS for now); keep additions deliberate — fixture IO is isolated in
node/fixtures.ts if a retreat to LFS/an external corpus is needed.