Align defaults with server-edition: reuse-as-seg and despill both OFF

Adopt server-edition's settings.py and default.yaml verbatim (zero diff on
these files between branches now):

- reuse_as_seg: false. The reuse equivalence holds for solid figures but
  breaks on thin pale strokes over a low-contrast background: HR-matting
  (trained on P3M-10k portraits + AM-2k animals) reads them as
  semi-transparent wisps, and as the trimap topology source it destroys
  white calligraphy (TestImage4: stroke alpha 0.92 -> 0.51, 48% of stroke
  pixels below 0.5) that the DIS5K-trained segmenter keeps solid (seg 0.97
  vs 0.40). As the gated cross-check veto the same signal stays harmless
  (hue gate excludes neutral strokes; confidence gate exempts soft edges).
  Opt in with --cross-check-as-seg for character batches.

- despill.enabled: false (mirrors server ba5d667): no positional/semantic
  guard, desaturates and hue-shifts subjects sharing the background's hue.

README updated accordingly; the performance table notes its numbers were
measured with reuse on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

bgfilter/cli.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def main(
     fg_safe_radius_ratio: float | None = typer.Option(None, "--fg-safe-radius-ratio", min=0.0),
     despill: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--despill/--no-despill"),
     cross_check: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--cross-check/--no-cross-check", help="Second-opinion veto of background-hued residue between hair strands (default: on; costs one extra model inference)"),
-    cross_check_as_seg: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--cross-check-as-seg/--no-cross-check-as-seg", help="Reuse the cross-check forward as the segmentation mask, skipping the primary seg model (default: on; saves ~20s on CPU; needs cross-check on)"),
+    cross_check_as_seg: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--cross-check-as-seg/--no-cross-check-as-seg", help="Reuse the cross-check forward as the segmentation mask, skipping the primary seg model (default: off; saves ~20s on CPU; needs cross-check on)"),
     trimap_mode: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--trimap-mode", help="Trimap mode (segmentation pipeline): directional | seg | directional-hard-bg"),
     seg_backend: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--seg-backend", help="Segmentation backend: birefnet (default) | anime-seg"),
 ) -> None:

bgfilter/settings.py

@@ -84,12 +84,13 @@ class CrossCheckSettings:
     input_size: int = 2048
     # Reuse the cross-check forward as the segmentation mask: one HR-matting
     # inference serves both trimap topology and the second opinion, skipping the
-    # primary seg model entirely (saves its load + forward). Pilot-validated on
-    # TestImage3/FixImage1: trimap 99.8% identical, no structural change. Only
-    # applies to the birefnet segmentation backend (a same-family swap); with
-    # anime-seg the chosen segmenter keeps its own forward and the cross-check
-    # runs independently. Needs cross_check and segmentation both enabled.
-    reuse_as_seg: bool = True
+    # primary seg model entirely (saves its load + forward; measured ~20 s/image
+    # on CPU, ~0.9-1.3 GB VRAM on GPU). Pilot-validated on TestImage3/FixImage1:
+    # trimap 99.8% identical. Default OFF on server-edition: the dedicated
+    # segmenter keeps its own forward and the veto stays an independent signal;
+    # opt in with --cross-check-as-seg. Only applies to the birefnet backend
+    # (a same-family swap); needs cross_check and segmentation both enabled.
+    reuse_as_seg: bool = False
     # Compute precision of the cross-check forward: "fp32" or "bf16" (autocast;
     # needs bf16-capable hardware, else falls back to fp32 with a warning).
     precision: str = "fp32"
@@ -121,7 +122,12 @@ class ForegroundSettings:
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class DespillSettings:
-    enabled: bool = True
+    # Off by default: despill pulls foreground chroma along the background-hue axis
+    # with no positional or semantic guard, so a subject sharing the background's hue
+    # (e.g. a blue suit on a blue backdrop) is desaturated/hue-shifted (~ΔE 35, blue
+    # -> purple). This is the root default the cpu-fast lane inherits. Re-enable
+    # per-config or with --despill only when edge spill genuinely matters.
+    enabled: bool = False
     edge_low: float = 0.005
     strength: float = 0.92
     edge_expand_radius: int = 2