diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index b28a47a..d072829 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
- run: ruff check .
- run: python -m build
- run: pytest
- - run: python tools/validate_results.py --config configs/contest/effiped-tier1.yaml
+ - run: python tools/validate_results.py --config configs/system/effiped-tier1.yaml
- run: python tools/validate_media.py
- run: python tools/validate_release.py
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 41821b2..835a904 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ runs/
*.mov
*.mkv
*.webm
-!docs/media/pdestre/effiped-demo.webm
+!docs/media/pdestre/multi-camera-tracking.webm
+!docs/media/pdestre/cross-camera-matches.webm
tmp/
*.log
*.aux
diff --git a/AWARD.md b/AWARD.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 12f74de..0000000
--- a/AWARD.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Award Record
-
-## 3rd Prize — Student Innovation Project Contest 2026
-
-- Project: **Multi-Camera Pedestrian Detection, Tracking & Re-Identification using Joint
- ConvNeXt V2 Architecture**
-- Short name: **EffiPed**
-- Category: **Vertical 1: AI & Intelligent Systems**
-- Institution: **VIT Vellore, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCOPE)**
-- Student: **Aswanth Raj**
-- Guide: **Sri Preethaa KR**
-
-The repository’s award wording is based on the author’s contest record and the submitted
-project poster. No certificate image is included, and this page does not invent visual proof.
-The original submitted poster is treated as an archived contest artifact; its benchmark
-snapshot is reconciled separately in `RESULTS.md`.
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 7d33fb2..2eaa7b8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Contributing
-Keep contributions focused on the contest system, local identity-review workflow, or verified
-research evolution. Add tests proportional to the change and run:
+Keep contributions focused on the EffiPed model, local identity-review workflow, or verified
+descriptor research. Add tests proportional to the change and run:
```bash
ruff check .
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ Do not commit datasets, checkpoints, source videos, runtime crops, secrets, abso
paths, unrelated projects, or unsupported claims. Every P-DESTRE-derived asset must be
non-commercial, attributed, hashed, and listed in `docs/media/ASSET_MANIFEST.json`.
-Code contributions are Apache-2.0. Media and third-party material retain their own compatible
-terms.
+Code contributions are Apache-2.0. Media and third-party material retain their own
+compatible terms.
diff --git a/MODEL_CARD.md b/MODEL_CARD.md
index 7755e04..3403007 100644
--- a/MODEL_CARD.md
+++ b/MODEL_CARD.md
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
## Summary
EffiPed Tier-1 is a compact joint detection and embedding model built around ConvNeXt V2,
-P2/P3 fusion, CenterNet outputs, RoIAlign, four body strips, CoordinateAttention, and a
-256-D normalized descriptor. BoT-SORT handles local temporal association; a bounded gallery
-ranks cross-camera candidates.
+P2/P3 fusion, CenterNet outputs, RoIAlign, four body strips, Coordinate Attention, and a
+256-D normalized descriptor. BoT-SORT handles camera-local temporal association; a bounded
+gallery ranks cross-camera candidates.
## Intended use
- Non-commercial research and education.
-- Reproduction of the documented contest and matched evaluation configurations.
+- Reproduction of the documented system and matched descriptor evaluations.
- Local, human-in-the-loop review of user-authorized camera video.
- Portfolio demonstration using precomputed, attributed media.
@@ -18,27 +18,28 @@ ranks cross-camera candidates.
- Automated identity decisions or claims of identity.
- Face recognition or biometric identification.
-- Public or covert surveillance without a purpose-specific legal, privacy, consent, security,
- retention, bias, and human-review assessment.
+- Public or covert surveillance without a purpose-specific legal, privacy, consent,
+ security, retention, bias, and human-review assessment.
- Commercial use while training-data terms remain non-commercial or unresolved.
## Evidence boundary
-Verified contest evidence includes 62.8% validation and 61.3% test cross-camera Rank-1 on
-P-DESTRE, plus 64.08 MOTA, 74.24 IDF1, and 61.34 HOTA on MOT17 val-half. See `RESULTS.md`
-for the exact protocol ledger and the separately labeled poster and post-contest evidence.
+Published system evidence includes 62.8% validation and 61.3% test cross-camera Rank-1 on
+P-DESTRE, plus 64.08 MOTA, 74.24 IDF1, and 61.34 HOTA on MOT17 val-half. See
+`RESULTS.md` for the complete protocol ledger.
## Limitations
-Scores are sensitive to occlusion, detector localization, pose, clothing ambiguity, illumination,
-camera calibration, time gaps, domain shift, and crowd density. A high cosine similarity is
-candidate evidence, not proof that two observations depict the same person. The public
-evaluation does not establish performance for other locations, populations, or camera networks.
+Scores are sensitive to occlusion, detector localization, pose, clothing ambiguity,
+illumination, camera calibration, time gaps, domain shift, and crowd density. A high cosine
+similarity is candidate evidence, not proof that two observations depict the same person.
+The published evaluation does not establish performance for other locations, populations,
+or camera networks.
## Artifact status
-The versioned manifest describes `effiped-tier1-contest-v1.pt`, but public checkpoint
-distribution is on hold. Runtime construction always sets `pretrained=false` when loading a
-checkpoint, avoiding an unnecessary backbone download.
+The versioned manifest describes `effiped-tier1-v1.pt`, but public checkpoint distribution
+is on hold. Runtime construction always uses `pretrained=false` when loading a checkpoint,
+avoiding an unnecessary backbone download.
Maintainer: [Aswanth Raj](https://github.com/aswanth-07)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1a19698..8e8fd0d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,90 +1,86 @@
-
+
# EffiPed
## Multi-Camera Pedestrian Detection, Tracking & Re-Identification using Joint ConvNeXt V2 Architecture
- **3rd Prize — Student Innovation Project Contest 2026**
- Vertical 1: AI & Intelligent Systems · VIT Vellore SCOPE
-
- By [Aswanth Raj](https://github.com/aswanth-07) · Guide: Sri Preethaa KR
+ By [Aswanth Raj](https://github.com/aswanth-07)
[](https://github.com/aswanth-07/effiped-multi-camera-tracking/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
- [](LICENSE)
- [](docs/media/LICENSE.md)
+ [](LICENSE)
+ [](docs/media/LICENSE.md)