How to capture multiple camera streams with OpenCV?

To capture multiple streams with OpenCV, I recommend using threading which can improve performance by alleviating the heavy I/O operations to a separate thread. Since accessing the webcam/IP/RTSP stream using cv2.VideoCapture().read() is a blocking operation, our main program is stuck until the frame is read from the camera device. If you have multiple streams, this … Read more

Roll rows of a matrix independently

Sure you can do it using advanced indexing, whether it is the fastest way probably depends on your array size (if your rows are large it may not be): rows, column_indices = np.ogrid[:A.shape[0], :A.shape[1]] # Use always a negative shift, so that column_indices are valid. # (could also use module operation) r[r < 0] += … Read more

Java lambdas 20 times slower than anonymous classes

You are obviously encountering the first-time initialization overhead of lambda expressions. As already mentioned in the comments, the classes for lambda expressions are generated at runtime rather than being loaded from your class path. However, being generated isn’t the cause for the slowdown. After all, generating a class having a simple structure can be even … Read more

Timertask or Handler

Handler is better than TimerTask. The Java TimerTask and the Android Handler both allow you to schedule delayed and repeated tasks on background threads. However, the literature overwhelmingly recommends using Handler over TimerTask in Android (see here, here, here, here, here, and here). Some of reported problems with TimerTask include: Can’t update the UI thread … Read more