icassp2027-experiment/manuscript/targeted/figures/system_overview_onecolumn.tex

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  at (.05,5.45) {(a) Short-window encoder evidence (SWE)};
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  at (8.25,5.45) {inputs $\leq t_n$};

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  {Frozen visual encoder\\recent person-crop clues $V$};

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