Tag: Python

#Python – How to fix “ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow (from versions: none)” on #Windows10 #TensorFlow

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Hi!

Ok, I’ll write this down. I face this issue from time to time, and then after some searching and reading, I found the solution (again!) and I realize I’ve been done this before.

So, I’m installing Tensorflow on Windows with the amazing single command

# Requires the latest pip
pip install --upgrade pip
# Current stable release for CPU and GPU
pip install tensorflow

And then I get this error

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow (from versions: none) 
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow
error installing tensor flow on windows

So, I decided to see what’s happened and I realize that I only have installed Python 3.8. And there is no official TF version for Python 3.8. So, I need to downgrade Python to 3.7.

Time to install earlier Python version

python current version 3.7.6

and then, try to install TensorFlow again. Now, it’s installing

installing tensorflow with current python version

and after installation, test current TF version

tensorflow installed and tested on windows terminal

So, remember: Using the latest Python version, does not warranty to have all the desired packed up to date. Specially with TensorFlow.

Happy coding!

Greetings

El Bruno

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#Ebook – Code the Classics, amazing book for programming games in #Python. From the #RaspberryPi library.

Buy Me A Coffee

Hi!

My son is a crack and he already passed the Scratch stage. He is part of an amazing Code Ninja programming program and he is asking for some new challenges.

Last month, when I see the release of the Code the Classics – Volume 1 book, I get one for us. And it’s amazing. I mean, he needs to understand Python now, so it’s another challenge. But you know me, any excuse to keep him away from JavaScript!

Code The Classic - Volume 1

By the way, all the code is available in GitHub, and it will take just 5 minutes to set everything up to test the games. And, most important, the book is also available FOR FREE IN EBOOK FORMAT.

So kudos to the publisher, and let’s go with the formal book description.

This stunning 224-page hardback book not only tells the stories of some of the seminal video games of the 1970s and 1980s, but shows you how to create your own games inspired by them using Python and Pygame Zero, following examples programmed by Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton.

In the first of two volumes, we remake five classic video games – ranging from Pong to Sensible Soccer, each represents a different genre. We interview the games’ original creators and learn from their example, as well as utilise the art and audio engineering skills of two of the 1980s’ most prolific games developers for our recreated versions of the games.

Get game design tips and tricks from the masters

– Explore the code listings and find out how they work

-Download and play game examples by Eben Upton

– Learn how to code your own games with Pygame Zero

– Read interviews with expert graphics and audio creators

Happy coding!

Greetings

El Bruno

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#RaspberryPi – 6 commands to install #OpenCV for #Python in #RaspberryPi4

Hi !

Quick post to remind me the 6 commands to install OpenCV in my Raspberry Pi

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-100
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-test
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
sudo apt-get install libjasper-dev
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py
sudo pip3 install opencv-contrib-python

There is an optional command to update pip, which is always nice.

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

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My posts on El Bruno

#VSCode – 20 lines to display a webcam camera feed with #Python using #OpenCV

Hi !

I always write this from scratch, so it seems that I’ll drop this one here. So next time I search for this, I’ll find myself.

And with some extra lines, we can even detect faces and display some face landmarks:

This is the base of some many image recognition scenarios, so I hope this will save me some local search time 😀

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

References

My posts on Face Recognition using Python

  1. Detecting Faces with 20 lines in Python
  2. Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python
  3. Detecting Facial Features with 20 lines in Python
  4. Facial Features and Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python
  5. Performance improvements with code
  6. More performance improvements, lowering the camera resolution

And some general Python posts

#Anaconda – My steps to install a virtual environment with #TensorFlow, #Keras and more

Hi!

So today post is not a post, just a selfish reminder of the steps I do when I setup a new dev machine

  • Install Anaconda (see references). I use the default settings, and important: I don’t add Anaconda to Windows PATH.
  • Open Anaconda command prompt as administrator
open anaconda as administrator

Need to be open as Admin in order to install updates

  • Install updates with the command
conda update conda 
conda update –all
  • Create a new development environment named “tfEnv” with tensorflow. Activate the environment
conda create -n tfenv tensorflow 
conda activate tfenv
  • The command to install keras is
pip install
keras

However, if it doesn’t work, I install keras with the following packages

pip install matplotlib 
pip install pillow 
pip install tensorflow==1.14 
conda install mingw libpython 
pip install git+git://github.com/Theano/Theano.git 
pip install git+git://github.com/fchollet/keras.git
  • Finally, install Jupyter notebook kernel and create a new kernel for the current virtual environment
pip install ipykernel 
ipython kernel install --user --name=tfEnv
  • There seems to be an issue to install OpenCV using pip with the command
pip install
opencv-python

So, I Install the OpenCV nonofficial package. 1st I download a compatible package from

https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyopencl

Install with 

pip install
c:\temp\opencv_python-4.1.1-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

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#Anaconda – How to create a custom #Python virtual environment and use it in #Jupyter notebooks (a kernel!)

Hi!

In yesterday post, I created a new virtual environment named [devtf] and in this environment I’ve installed a lot of tools that I need. Then I tried to launch a jupyter notebook from this environment, to use this tools and, of course, it didn’t work.

anaconda start virtual environment and error on launch jupyter notebook

It was time to read and learn how this works. So, when I finally get this I find this amazing article which really explain how this works “Using Virtual Environments in Jupyter Notebook and Python” (see references)

Jupyter Notebook makes sure that the IPython kernel is available, but you have to manually add a kernel with a different version of Python or a virtual environment. First, you need to activate your virtual environment. Next, install ipykernel which provides the IPython kernel for Jupyter. And finally, you can add your virtual environment to Jupyter.

So the commands are 

pip install --user ipykernel 
python -m ipykernel install --user --name=devtf

Where “devtf” is the name of the new kernel you want to create. Now, when I launch Jupyter Notebooks, the new kernel is available to be used

jupyter notebook change kernel to one with tensorflow

When I started to use this new kernel (virtual environment) I realized that I didn’t installed TensorFlow. You know, being happy about this, naming the kernel TF but not installing the core component. And, sure, my notebooks didn’t work.

jupyter notebook with kernel without tensorflow

I went to my terminal / command prompt and installed TensorFlow. Then I only need to restart the Kernel, and everything start working. I added a extra couple of lines in my notebook just to check the TensorFlow and keras versions.

jupyter notebook tf ok and test keras version

I find similar errors with another packages, so I pip installed the packages in the terminal and restart the kernel to have the notebook OK. So, my simple reminder for myself about how to do this!

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Mississauga

El Bruno

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#Python – Can’t install TensorFlow on Anaconda, maybe is the Visual Studio distribution

Hi!

This is the 2nd time I get a weird error when I install TensorFlow in my Anaconda distribution. And this is the 2nd time I realize that I’m using the Anaconda version that is preinstalled with Visual Studio. I’m not sure if the spaces in the path affects the creation of environments or it’s something else, however my current and big and amazing solution is:

  • Uninstall Anaconda
  • Install Anaconda again

And then, follow the simple commands in the official Anaconda and TensorFlow doc (see references)

conda create -n tensorflow_env tensorflow
conda activate tensorflow_env

Once tensorflow is installed, I usually test this in python

> Python 
import tensorflow as tf 
print(tf.__version__)

Note: please ignore the typos!

anaconda start python and test anaconda version

Now TensorFlow is installed and it’s time to move forward with a new development environment.

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

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#Python – Let’s use a #FaceRecognition demo app for a performance comparison between #RaspberryPi3 and #RaspberryPi4

Hi!

I started to do some tests with the new Raspberry Pi 4 and the results are amazing. I’m not a performance expert, so I decided to pick up some of the demos / apps I’ve creating for the Raspberry Pi and run them in both models: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and Raspberry Pi 4.

I started with an amazing set of tutorials on how to perform Face Recognition from Adrian Rosebrock (see references). I’ve been using his Face Recognition python package for this scenarios and it’s an amazing one.

I added some code to a custom version of Adrian’s Face Recognition sample, and it looks great. The main idea was to track in real-time the current FPS (similar to the work I did with the Image AI and Hololens sample a couple of days ago, see references).

This sample load a file with 15 trained faces and analyze frame by frame to

  • Detect faces in the frame.
  • If a face is detected, draw a frame around it.
  • For each detected frame analyze if the face is a trained face.
  • If the face is part of the trained dataset, the app will add the name of the person on top of the frame.

I display in real-time the FPS processed with a USB camera in a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. Doing a lot of tweaks and getting the best performance in the device I could never process 1FPS. The average processing data were between 0.6 and 0.9 FPS in a Raspberry Pi 3B+.

python face recognition in raspberry py 3 with FPS live

IMHO, these results are great for a small device like a Raspberry Pi 3B+. But now it was time to test it in the new Raspberry Pi 4. And an important note here is to remark that even if I did this tests in a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of Rams, the performance results are similar to a RPI4 with just 1 GB of ram. We have more memory, however the processor improvements are quite significant in the new version.

I installed all the necessary software in the Raspberry Pi 4 and I got 3X better results. I’ve even tun this in a 1080p resolution to get a sense of the real processing time. The average processing data were between 2.3 and 2.4 FPS in a Raspberry Pi 4.

python face recognition in raspberry py 4 with FPS live

Amazing! In this scenario the Raspberry Pi 4 is almost 3 times faster than the Raspberry Pi 3. And again, these are amazing times for a 50USD device.

The sample source code is https://github.com/elbruno/Blog/tree/master/20190819%20Rpi%203%20vs%20Rpi%204%20Face%20Recognition

I even have time for some BBQ time with family and friends!

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

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#Python – Detecting #Hololens in realtime in webcam feed using #ImageAI and #OpenCV with performance improvements

Hi!

In my previous post I created a sample on how to use ImageAI and OpenCV to detect Hololens from a webcam frame (see references). I added some code to the last sample, and I found that the performance was not very good.

python using imageai to detect hololens less than 1 fps

With the previous sample code, I couldn’t process more than 1 frame per second. So, I started to make some improvements and I got this result

python using imageai to detect hololens little more than 1 fps

Not an amazing one, but still is nice to have more than 1 frame per second analyzed.

I even remove all the camera preview and still works in less than 1FPS.

python using imageai to detect hololens no opencv camera preview

So, now it’s time to read and learn of the deep code on ImageAI. Fun times!

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

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#Python –Detecting #Hololens in realtime in webcam feed using #ImageAI and #OpenCV (thanks to @OlafenwaMoses)

Hi!

Let’s start with a very quick intro:

During the past months, I’ve been playing around with several Image Analysis tools. And ImageAI (see references) is one that deserves a full series of posts. Please take a look at the product and the source code in GitHub, and also please thank the one behind this: Moses Olafenwa (@OlafenwaMoses).

And now, my 2 cents. I’ve started to test ImageAI to create my own image detection models. Most of the times, this is a hard path to do, however ImageAI show me an interesting option.

… with the latest release of ImageAI v2.1.0, support for training your custom YOLOv3 models to detect literally any kind and number of objects is now fully supported, …

Wow! That’s mean that I can pick up my own set of images dataset and train on top of a YOLOv3 and use it as a trained model. Again, this is amazing.

So, I started to read the article [Train Object Detection AI with 6 lines of code, see references] where Olafenwa explains how to do this using a data set with almost 500 rows with images for Hololens and Oculus Rift.

The code is very simple and easy to read. There are also examples on how to analyze a single file, or a video, or even a camera feed. The output for the analysis can be also in a new file, in a processed video or even a full log file with the detected information.

I started to read the code samples and I realized that I’m missing a scenario:

Display the realtime feed from a webcam, analyze each webcam frame and if a device is found, add a frame to the realtime feed to display this.

I use OpenCV to access to my camera, and it took me some time to figure out how to convert my OpenCV2 camera frame to the format needed by ImageAI. At the end, thanks to the GitHub code I manage to create this (very slow but working) demo

As usual in this scenario, now it’s time to improve the performance and start testing with some tweaks to get a decent up and running App.

And of course, the code

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

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