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Behavision/behavision/api.py
Suriyakumarvijayanayagam e262fc8482 The live picture was chained to the recognition pipeline
Reported from the first Windows install: the camera feed lags. It did,
and not because of the network, the proxy or the webview.

The MJPEG stream served _annotated_jpeg - the frame the pipeline had
most recently FINISHED with, encoded after detection, quality scoring,
tracking and identification had all run on it. On a modest shop PC that
is a few frames a second, and every picture was already as old as that
processing. It looked like lag because it was lag. On the fast machine
it was developed on the pipeline kept up with the stream's own 10 fps
cap, which is why nobody here ever saw it.

Two more things compounded it. Every processed frame was JPEG-encoded
whether or not a viewer existed - CPU spent on precisely the machine
short of it. And ffmpeg ran its RTSP demuxer with default buffering,
which holds a comfortable queue of frames before handing over the first:
half a second to two seconds a live view can never recover.

Now the picture and the boxes are decoupled. latest_jpeg_since takes the
capture thread's freshest frame at the camera's own rate and draws the
boxes from the last processed frame over it - encoded on demand, per
request, so a camera nobody watches costs no encode at all. The stream
sends a frame only when the camera has a newer one, capped at 15 fps;
nothing is sent twice. Boxes older than a second are not drawn, so a
stalled pipeline cannot leave one floating over an empty spot.
_publish_annotated becomes _remember_tracks: a handful of tuples under
the lock, no copy, no encode. ffmpeg gets nobuffer / low_delay /
max_delay.

Measured on cam2's sub-stream, same machine, ten seconds each:

  before   99 frames sent,  98 distinct    9.8 new pictures/s
  after   141 frames sent, 141 distinct   14.0 new pictures/s

against a 15 fps camera, with the pipeline still processing 166 of 181
captured frames alongside - and engine CPU DOWN from 90% with no viewer
to 62% with one attached.

Engine version 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0 so a re-run of setup reinstalls it rather
than pip deciding the requirement is already satisfied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KGcjxF1cNLcuwc3DAPcnfj
2026-09-11 16:28:05 +05:30

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"""HTTP API + minimal live dashboard (FastAPI).
Every endpoint is guarded by engine readiness; the server can start before
models finish loading without a single unguarded None dereference.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import time
import logging
import secrets
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Optional
from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, HTTPException
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse, Response, StreamingResponse
from fastapi.security import HTTPBasic, HTTPBasicCredentials
from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError
from .config import ApiSection, CameraConfig, CameraTuning
from .commission import CommissionRun
from .events import Event
from .engine import Engine
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
_STATIC = Path(__file__).parent / "static"
class RenamePayload(BaseModel):
label: str
class CommissionPayload(BaseModel):
seconds: float = 25.0
class MergePayload(BaseModel):
"""`into` is the identity that survives. `force` overrides the
similarity guard and is never the default: a wrong merge cannot be
undone, because nothing records which embedding came from whom."""
into: int
force: bool = False
class CameraPayload(BaseModel):
"""Camera as the UI submits it. Mirrors CameraConfig but every field is
optional so PATCH can send a subset.
Optional[...] rather than `X | None`: pydantic evaluates field annotations
at runtime, and CameraConfig already uses this form.
"""
id: Optional[str] = None
url: Optional[str] = None
host: Optional[str] = None
port: Optional[int] = None
path: Optional[str] = None
username: Optional[str] = None
password: Optional[str] = None
webcam: Optional[int] = None
max_width: Optional[int] = None
# Per-camera gate overrides. Without this the store could hold them but
# nothing could set them, so the commissioning advice ("loosen this
# camera's quality gate") had no way to be acted on.
tuning: Optional[CameraTuning] = None
def camera_public(cam: CameraConfig, worker=None) -> dict:
"""Camera as the API returns it.
The password is NEVER included — not masked, not empty-string-if-set,
absent. `safe_url()` already exists for exactly this and masks credentials
inside the URL form too.
"""
out = {
"id": cam.id, "host": cam.host, "port": cam.port, "path": cam.path,
"username": cam.username, "webcam": cam.webcam,
"max_width": cam.max_width, "has_password": bool(cam.password),
"url": cam.safe_url(),
"tuning": cam.tuning.model_dump(),
}
if worker is not None:
out.update(worker.stats())
out["url"] = cam.safe_url() # worker.stats() also carries a url key
return out
def _auth_dependencies(api_cfg: ApiSection) -> list:
"""HTTP Basic over every route when credentials are configured.
Applied at app level rather than per-route so a future endpoint cannot be
added unprotected by omission. Basic (not a token) because the dashboard
is a browser page: the browser prompts once and then attaches the header
to the MJPEG <img> subresource too, which a bearer token cannot do.
"""
if not api_cfg.auth_enabled:
return []
scheme = HTTPBasic()
def check(credentials: HTTPBasicCredentials = Depends(scheme)) -> None:
# compare_digest on both halves: no early exit, no timing signal.
ok_user = secrets.compare_digest(
credentials.username.encode("utf-8"),
api_cfg.username.encode("utf-8"))
ok_pass = secrets.compare_digest(
credentials.password.encode("utf-8"),
api_cfg.password.encode("utf-8"))
if not (ok_user and ok_pass):
raise HTTPException(401, "invalid credentials",
headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Basic"})
return [Depends(check)]
def _reencode(jpeg: bytes, width: int, quality: int) -> "bytes | None":
"""Decode, scale and re-encode one frame. None on any failure.
None rather than an exception on purpose: the caller falls back to the
original frame, so a re-encode that fails costs bandwidth rather than the
picture. A live view that goes blank because a resize failed is a worse
outcome than one that is briefly larger than asked for.
"""
try:
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imdecode(np.frombuffer(jpeg, np.uint8), cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
if img is None:
return None
if 0 < width < img.shape[1]:
# Only ever DOWN. Upscaling a frame to a requested width would send
# more bytes than the original for no more detail.
scale = width / img.shape[1]
img = cv2.resize(img, (width, max(1, int(img.shape[0] * scale))),
interpolation=cv2.INTER_AREA)
q = quality if 1 <= quality <= 100 else 75
ok, buf = cv2.imencode(".jpg", img, [int(cv2.IMWRITE_JPEG_QUALITY), q])
return buf.tobytes() if ok else None
except Exception:
log.debug("frame re-encode failed", exc_info=True)
return None
def create_app(engine: Engine) -> FastAPI:
app = FastAPI(title="Behavision", version="1.0.0",
dependencies=_auth_dependencies(engine.cfg.api))
def worker_or_404(camera_id: str):
worker = engine.workers.get(camera_id)
if worker is None:
raise HTTPException(404, f"unknown camera '{camera_id}'")
return worker
@app.get("/", response_class=HTMLResponse)
def dashboard() -> str:
return (_STATIC / "dashboard.html").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
@app.get("/api/health")
def health() -> dict:
from .paths import describe
return {"status": "ok" if engine.started_at else "starting",
"recognition_model": engine.encoder.model_name,
# "where is my database" must be answerable from the API: the
# tray, the installer and support all need it, and installed
# it is not next to the code.
"paths": {**describe(), "data_dir": str(engine.cfg.app.data_dir),
"models_dir": str(engine.cfg.app.models_dir)},
"cameras": {cid: w.source.connected
for cid, w in engine.workers.items()}}
@app.get("/api/stats")
def stats() -> dict:
return engine.stats()
@app.get("/api/events")
def events(limit: int = 50) -> list:
return list(engine.bus.recent)[:limit]
@app.get("/api/identities")
def identities(limit: int = 200) -> list:
return engine.store.list_identities(limit)
@app.get("/api/sightings")
def sightings(limit: int = 100) -> list:
return engine.store.recent_sightings(limit)
@app.patch("/api/identities/{identity_id}")
def rename_identity(identity_id: int, payload: RenamePayload) -> dict:
if not engine.store.rename_identity(identity_id, payload.label.strip()):
raise HTTPException(404, "identity not found")
return engine.store.get_identity(identity_id)
@app.get("/api/identities/{identity_id}/embedding")
def identity_embedding(identity_id: int) -> dict:
"""One identity's best stored vector, for forwarding to the server.
This returns biometric personal data. It is on the authenticated local
API and bound to loopback in the product, and it exists because the
event bus deliberately does not carry embeddings — putting a 512-float
template on the bus would send it to the log sink and the email sink
too.
"""
best = engine.store.best_embedding(identity_id, engine.gallery.model_name)
if best is None:
raise HTTPException(404, "no embedding for this identity "
"(or it was made by a different model)")
vector, quality = best
return {"identity_id": identity_id,
"model": engine.gallery.model_name,
"quality": round(quality, 3),
"embedding": [round(float(x), 6) for x in vector]}
@app.get("/api/identities/duplicates")
def duplicate_identities(limit: int = 20) -> list:
"""Identity pairs that look like one person enrolled twice."""
return engine.gallery.duplicate_candidates(limit)
@app.post("/api/identities/{identity_id}/merge")
def merge_identity(identity_id: int, payload: MergePayload) -> dict:
result = engine.gallery.merge_identities(
identity_id, payload.into, force=payload.force)
if not result.get("ok"):
reason = result.get("reason", "merge refused")
# 409, not 400: the request is well formed, it conflicts with what
# the gallery believes. The body carries the measured similarity so
# the UI can show the operator what it is asking them to override.
status = 404 if "not found" in reason else 409
raise HTTPException(status, detail=result)
engine.bus.publish(Event(
type="identity.merged", camera_id="",
data={k: result[k] for k in
("source", "target", "label", "similarity", "forced",
"embeddings_moved", "sightings_moved")}))
return result
@app.delete("/api/identities/{identity_id}")
def delete_identity(identity_id: int) -> dict:
if not engine.gallery.delete_identity(identity_id):
raise HTTPException(404, "identity not found")
return {"deleted": identity_id}
@app.get("/api/cameras")
def cameras() -> list:
out = []
for cam in engine.camera_store.list():
out.append(camera_public(cam, engine.workers.get(cam.id)))
return out
@app.post("/api/cameras", status_code=201)
def add_camera(payload: CameraPayload) -> dict:
data = payload.model_dump(exclude_none=True)
if not data.get("id"):
raise HTTPException(400, "id is required")
try:
cam = CameraConfig.model_validate(data)
cam.source() # reject "no url, no host, no webcam" before storing
# Resolve the per-camera gates here too. Without this an inverted
# enroll/match pair was only caught when the worker was built,
# which surfaced as a 500 "stored but failed to start" instead of
# telling the user what was wrong with what they typed.
engine.cfg.recognition.merged(cam.tuning)
except (ValidationError, ValueError) as exc:
raise HTTPException(400, str(exc))
try:
engine.camera_store.add(cam)
except ValueError as exc:
raise HTTPException(409, str(exc))
try:
engine.add_camera(cam)
except Exception as exc:
# Never leave the store describing a camera the engine refused —
# the two would disagree until the next restart.
engine.camera_store.delete(cam.id)
raise HTTPException(500, f"camera stored but failed to start: {exc}")
return camera_public(cam, engine.workers.get(cam.id))
@app.patch("/api/cameras/{camera_id}")
def edit_camera(camera_id: str, payload: CameraPayload) -> dict:
fields = payload.model_dump(exclude_none=True)
fields.pop("id", None)
try:
if "tuning" in fields:
engine.cfg.recognition.merged(
CameraTuning.model_validate(fields["tuning"]))
cam = engine.camera_store.update(camera_id, fields)
except (ValidationError, ValueError) as exc:
raise HTTPException(400, str(exc))
if cam is None:
raise HTTPException(404, f"unknown camera '{camera_id}'")
engine.restart_camera(cam) # a changed URL needs a fresh connection
return camera_public(cam, engine.workers.get(cam.id))
@app.delete("/api/cameras/{camera_id}")
def delete_camera(camera_id: str) -> dict:
if not engine.camera_store.delete(camera_id):
raise HTTPException(404, f"unknown camera '{camera_id}'")
engine.remove_camera(camera_id)
return {"deleted": camera_id}
@app.post("/api/cameras/{camera_id}/commission")
def start_commission(camera_id: str,
payload: CommissionPayload) -> dict:
"""Begin a placement check: watch this camera for N seconds and judge
whether faces here are good enough to enrol."""
worker = worker_or_404(camera_id)
# The camera's own gate, not the global one - the whole point is to
# judge this view against the threshold it will actually run under.
worker.commission = CommissionRun(
camera_id, worker.rcfg.min_enroll_quality, payload.seconds)
return worker.commission.report()
@app.get("/api/cameras/{camera_id}/commission")
def commission_result(camera_id: str) -> dict:
worker = worker_or_404(camera_id)
if worker.commission is None:
raise HTTPException(404, "no placement check has been run")
return worker.commission.report()
@app.delete("/api/cameras/{camera_id}/commission")
def cancel_commission(camera_id: str) -> dict:
worker = worker_or_404(camera_id)
if worker.commission is not None:
worker.commission.cancel()
return {"cancelled": camera_id}
@app.post("/api/cameras/test")
def test_camera(payload: CameraPayload) -> dict:
"""Try a camera WITHOUT saving it - the UI's Test button.
Deliberately a sync def so FastAPI runs it in the threadpool:
cv2.VideoCapture blocks hard and a wrong host can hang for the full
FFmpeg timeout, which would stall the whole event loop.
"""
from .capture import probe_source
data = payload.model_dump(exclude_none=True)
data.setdefault("id", "__test__")
try:
cam = CameraConfig.model_validate(data)
source = cam.source()
except (ValidationError, ValueError) as exc:
return {"ok": False, "error": str(exc)}
return probe_source(source, cam.max_width)
@app.get("/api/cameras/{camera_id}/frame.jpg")
def frame(camera_id: str, width: int = 0, quality: int = 0) -> Response:
"""The latest frame, optionally re-encoded smaller.
`width`/`quality` exist for the live relay, which sends several frames
a second up a shop's uplink and cannot afford the full-size picture the
dashboard uses. The re-encode happens here rather than in the agent
because this process already has OpenCV open and the frame decoded;
shipping a scaler into the agent would be the same work done twice.
Done on demand, not on every frame: a camera nobody is watching must
not pay for a second encode it will never use.
"""
jpeg = worker_or_404(camera_id).latest_jpeg()
if jpeg is None:
raise HTTPException(503, "no frame yet")
if width > 0 or quality > 0:
jpeg = _reencode(jpeg, width, quality) or jpeg
return Response(jpeg, media_type="image/jpeg")
@app.get("/api/cameras/{camera_id}/stream.mjpeg")
async def stream(camera_id: str) -> StreamingResponse:
worker = worker_or_404(camera_id)
async def generate():
boundary = b"--frame\r\nContent-Type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n"
# Stop when the camera is deleted or its worker dies - otherwise a
# removed camera leaves this generator running for the life of the
# process, holding a reference to a worker nothing else can see.
# Driven by the camera, not a timer: a frame goes out when the
# capture thread has one newer than the last one sent, so nothing
# is sent twice and nothing waits on the recognition pipeline.
# Capped at 15 fps - the office cameras' own rate - so a viewer
# never costs more encodes than the camera produces pictures.
last_ts, min_gap, sent_at = 0.0, 1.0 / 15, 0.0
while engine.workers.get(camera_id) is worker and worker.is_alive():
now = time.time()
if now - sent_at < min_gap:
await asyncio.sleep(min_gap - (now - sent_at))
continue
jpeg, ts = worker.latest_jpeg_since(last_ts)
if jpeg is None:
await asyncio.sleep(0.02)
continue
last_ts, sent_at = ts, time.time()
yield boundary + jpeg + b"\r\n"
return StreamingResponse(
generate(),
media_type="multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=frame")
return app