Suriyakumarvijayanayagam
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Measured rather than guessed, and the first guess was wrong. Wall clock said H.265 decode cost 58 ms a frame; cap.read() blocks until the next frame arrives, so that was the frame interval, not work. As CPU time: decode 3.7 ms, detection 31.0 ms - and detection ran on every frame whether or not anything was in front of the camera, 6,649 of 8,634 frames with faces_seen 0 and active_tracks 0 throughout. detect_threads: OpenCV spreads a small repeated job over eight threads, costing 31.0 ms of CPU for 8.9 ms of wall. One thread costs 15.3 ms for 15.3 ms, against a 66 ms budget at 15 fps. Half the CPU for latency nothing can notice. motion_gate: a 160x90 greyscale absdiff, 0.1 ms against detection's 15. Consulted only while no track is open; forced to look every motion_max_skip frames; compared against the last frame SEARCHED so a slow drift cannot creep under the threshold; and a threshold above this camera's measured noise and far below a person, so anything ambiguous detects. tests/test_motion_gate.py pins each of those rather than the saving, including asserting the longest run of skips rather than the total - counting the total would pass a gate that slept forty frames and then looked forty times. Together 80% -> 16% of a core, detection skipped on 92% of frames. faces_seen is still 0 and the gate is not why: run directly over the same frames the detector finds nothing at threshold 0.50 either. The placement is the limit, as recorded; the CPU was being spent to rediscover that fifteen times a second. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KGcjxF1cNLcuwc3DAPcnfj
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