icassp2027-experiment/manuscript/targeted/README.md

# Targeted ICASSP 2027 manuscript

This directory is an independent acceptance-target manuscript. It does not
modify or replace `../main/`.

## Positioning

The paper is deliberately framed as a causal global--local **audit**, because
that is the strongest complete story supported by archived evidence:

- global Omni context and recent audio are complementary across all horizons;
- most measured benefit is dense forecasting and wearer-offset anticipation;
- pooled and current-frame person vision do not establish speaker grounding;
- a three-seed causal oracle shows that timely visible-participant activity is
  informative, while identity continuity is not currently necessary.

The draft also reflects two seed-0 exploratory screens reported in
`../main/main.tex`: no-box full-frame F3 (Table 1) and a global-only
chunk-construction comparison (Table 2, panel B). Neither supplies
matched visual-motion evidence, endpoint gains, or the pending T/C factorial.
The result directories cited by the main draft for F3 and its G+A recheck
are absent from this checkout, so their underlying logs have not been
independently audited here.

No semantic ENTRY/YIELD, addressee, online-detector, or real-time-throughput
claim is made. The deployable matrix is explicitly single-seed and exploratory.
The six-group L/T/C/B/H-Q/S table remains in `main.tex` as an
**illustrative, unmeasured planning aid**, excluded from the page-limited
PDF. Its directional statements are hypotheses and falsifiers, not EasyCom
scores. Replace or remove every row after the corresponding experiment,
including results that contradict the working story.

## Build

```bash
cd manuscript/targeted
make
```

The editable sources are `main.tex`, `references.bib`,
`figures/task_overview.tex`, and `figures/system_overview_onecolumn.tex`.
Generated LaTeX files are written to `build/`.

The preview is four technical pages plus a reference-only fifth page. Both
the task diagram (Fig. 1) and the system diagram (Fig. 2) occupy one column.
The current PDF reserves five numbered result tables: measured deployable
and oracle screens share Table 1; L controls extend its first panel. The
unmeasured T/C matrix and a separate measured chunk screen share Table 2;
B, H, and S occupy Tables 3--5. Pending cells are explicitly unmeasured.
Figure 3 is an H/Q case slot, not a selected or measured example. Its
cutoff-marked timelines must be inserted only after the slice protocol and
case-selection rule are frozen. The single-column system figure is generated
from figures/system_overview_onecolumn.tex; the earlier full-width source
is retained for comparison.

The build uses the repository's ICASSP 2027 LaTeX assets in
`../ICASSP2027_Paper_Templates/`, selected by `latexmkrc`. The supplied
`spconf.sty` and `IEEEbib.bst` match the 2026 copies.

## Evidence sources

- `results/easycom_encoder_only_1s_4ep_2026-08-28/`
- `results/easycom_egospeak_three_level_eval_2026-09-16/`
- `results/easycom_omni_floor_screen_2026-09-16/`
- `results/easycom_oracle_pooled_wearer_audit_2026-09-10/`

The manuscript does not use superseded opportunity-conditioned ENTRY/INT
numbers. See `REVIEWER_REPORT.md` for the internal review loop and the remaining
scientific submission gates.