Linux: OpenCV and using Lucas-Kanade Optical Flow function.

Fist I install OpenCV python module and I try using with Fedora 25.
I used python 2.7 version.

[root@localhost mythcat]# dnf install opencv-python.x86_64 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:21:12 ago on Sat Feb 25 23:26:59 2017.
Dependencies resolved.
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 opencv               x86_64        3.1.0-8.fc25           fedora         1.8 M
 opencv-python        x86_64        3.1.0-8.fc25           fedora         376 k
 python2-nose         noarch        1.3.7-11.fc25          updates        266 k
 python2-numpy        x86_64        1:1.11.2-1.fc25        fedora         3.2 M

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  opencv.x86_64 3.1.0-8.fc25            opencv-python.x86_64 3.1.0-8.fc25       
  python2-nose.noarch 1.3.7-11.fc25     python2-numpy.x86_64 1:1.11.2-1.fc25    

Complete!
[root@localhost mythcat]# 

This is my test script with opencv to detect flow using Lucas-Kanade Optical Flow function.
This tracks some points in a black and white video.
First you need:
- one black and white video;
- not mp4 file type file;
- the color args need to be under 4 ( see is 3);
- I used this video:
I used cv2.goodFeaturesToTrack().
We take the first frame, detect some Shi-Tomasi corner points in it, then we iteratively track those points using Lucas-Kanade optical flow.
The function cv2.calcOpticalFlowPyrLK() we pass the previous frame, previous points and next frame.
The returns next points along with some status numbers which has a value of 1 if next point is found, else zero.
That iteratively pass these next points as previous points in next step.
See the code below:

import numpy as np
import cv2

cap = cv2.VideoCapture('candle')

# params for ShiTomasi corner detection
feature_params = dict( maxCorners = 77,
                       qualityLevel = 0.3,
                       minDistance = 7,
                       blockSize = 7 )

# Parameters for lucas kanade optical flow
lk_params = dict( winSize  = (17,17),
                  maxLevel = 1,
                  criteria = (cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_EPS | cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_COUNT, 10, 0.03))

# Create some random colors
color = np.random.randint(0,255,(100,3))

# Take first frame and find corners in it
ret, old_frame = cap.read()
old_gray = cv2.cvtColor(old_frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
p0 = cv2.goodFeaturesToTrack(old_gray, mask = None, **feature_params)

# Create a mask image for drawing purposes
mask = np.zeros_like(old_frame)

while(1):
    ret,frame = cap.read()
    frame_gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

    # calculate optical flow
    p1, st, err = cv2.calcOpticalFlowPyrLK(old_gray, frame_gray, p0, None, **lk_params)

    # Select good points
    good_new = p1[st==1]
    good_old = p0[st==1]

    # draw the tracks
    for i,(new,old) in enumerate(zip(good_new,good_old)):
        a,b = new.ravel()
        c,d = old.ravel()
        mask = cv2.line(mask, (a,b),(c,d), color[i].tolist(), 2)
        frame = cv2.circle(frame,(a,b),5,color[i].tolist(),-1)
    img = cv2.add(frame,mask)

    cv2.imshow('frame',img)
    k = cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xff
    if k == 27:
        break

    # Now update the previous frame and previous points
    old_gray = frame_gray.copy()
    p0 = good_new.reshape(-1,1,2)

cv2.destroyAllWindows()
cap.release()

The output of this file is:

The bad and good urllib.

This is a simple python script:

import urllib
opener = urllib.FancyURLopener({})
f = opener.open("http://www.ra___aer.ro/")
d=f.read()
fo = open('workfile.txt', 'w')
fo.write(d)
fo.close()

The really bad news comes from here:
http://blog.blindspotsecurity.com/2017/02/advisory-javapython-ftp-injections.html

The twill python module with Fedora 25.

Today I tested the twill python module with python 2.7 and Fedora 25.
This is: a scripting system for automating Web browsing. Useful for testing Web pages or grabbing data from password-protected sites automatically.
To install this python module I used pip command:
[root@localhost mythcat]# pip install twill
Collecting twill
Downloading twill-1.8.0.tar.gz (176kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 184kB 2.5MB/s
Installing collected packages: twill
Running setup.py install for twill ... done
Successfully installed twill-1.8.0

Let's try some tests:

[mythcat@localhost ~]$ python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jan 12 2017, 17:59:37) 
[GCC 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from twill import get_browser
>>> b = get_browser()
>>> 
>>> from twill.commands import *
>>> go("http://www.python.org/")
==> at https://www.python.org/
u'https://www.python.org/'
>>> b.showforms()

Form #1
## ## __Name__________________ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
1     q                        search    id-searc ...   

To talk to the Web browser directly, call the get_browser function.
You can see most of the twill commands by using:

>>> import twill.shell
>>> twill.shell.main()

 -= Welcome to twill! =-

current page: https://www.python.org/widgets
>> ?

Undocumented commands:
======================
add_auth             fa           info             save_html           title
add_extra_header     find         load_cookies     setglobal           url  
agent                follow       notfind          setlocal          
back                 formaction   redirect_error   show              
clear_cookies        formclear    redirect_output  show_cookies      
clear_extra_headers  formfile     reload           show_extra_headers
code                 formvalue    reset_browser    showforms         
config               fv           reset_error      showhistory       
debug                get_browser  reset_output     showlinks         
echo                 getinput     run              sleep             
exit                 getpassword  runfile          submit            
extend_with          go           save_cookies     tidy_ok           

current page: https://www.python.org/widgets
>> 

Basic is used by setlocal to fill website forms and the go function.
Ban can be very good for some tasks.
The twill python module also provides a simple wrapper for mechanizing functionality with the API is still unstable.

Compare two images: the histogram method.

This is a very simple example about how to compare the histograms of both images and print the inconsistencies are bound to arise.
The example come with alternative solution: Histogram method.
The script was run under Fedora 25.
If the images are the same the result will be 0.0.
For testing I change the image2.png by make a line into this with a coverage of 10%.
The result of the script was:
1116.63243729
The images come with this dimensions: 738 x 502 px.

import math
import operator
from math import *
import PIL

from PIL import Image
h1 = Image.open("image1.png").histogram()
h2 = Image.open("image2.png").histogram()

rms = math.sqrt(reduce(operator.add,
        map(lambda a,b: (a-b)**2, h1, h2))/len(h1))
print rms

About the operator module exports a set of efficient functions corresponding to the intrinsic operators of Python.
Example:
operator.lt(a, b)
operator.le(a, b)
operator.eq(a, b)
operator.ne(a, b)
operator.ge(a, b)
operator.gt(a, b)
operator.__lt__(a, b)
operator.__le__(a, b)
operator.__eq__(a, b)
operator.__ne__(a, b)
operator.__ge__(a, b)
operator.__gt__(a, b)
This is like math operators:
lt(a, b) is equivalent to a < b
le(a, b) is equivalent to a <= b
Another example:
>>> # Elementwise multiplication
>>> map(mul, [0, 1, 2, 3], [10, 20, 30, 40])
[0, 20, 60, 120]

>>> # Dot product
>>> sum(map(mul, [0, 1, 2, 3], [10, 20, 30, 40]))
200