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+/*
+DESCRIPTION
+  A filter that detects motion and discards frames without motion. The
+  filter uses a Mixture of Gaussians method (MoG) to determine what is
+  background and what is foreground.
+
+AUTHORS
+  Scott Barnard <scott@ausocean.org>
+
+LICENSE
+  mog.go is Copyright (C) 2019 the Australian Ocean Lab (AusOcean)
+
+  It is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify them
+  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+  Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
+  option) any later version.
+
+  It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
+  for more details.
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  in gpl.txt.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
+*/
+
+package filter
+
+import (
+	"image"
+	"image/color"
+	"io"
+
+	"gocv.io/x/gocv"
+)
+
+// MOGFilter is a filter that provides basic motion detection. MoG is short for
+// Mixture of Gaussians method.
+type MOGFilter struct {
+	dst     io.WriteCloser
+	area    float64
+	bs      *gocv.BackgroundSubtractorMOG2
+	knl     gocv.Mat
+	debug   bool
+	windows []*gocv.Window
+}
+
+// NewMOGFilter returns a pointer to a new MOGFilter.
+func NewMOGFilter(dst io.WriteCloser, area, threshold float64, history, kernelSize int, debug bool) *MogFilter {
+	bs := gocv.NewBackgroundSubtractorMOG2WithParams(history, threshold, false)
+	k := gocv.GetStructuringElement(gocv.MorphRect, image.Pt(kernelSize, kernelSize))
+	var windows []*gocv.Window
+	if debug {
+		windows = []*gocv.Window{gocv.NewWindow("Debug: Bounding boxes"), gocv.NewWindow("Debug: Motion")}
+	}
+	return &MOGFilter{dst, area, &bs, k, debug, windows}
+}
+
+// Implements io.Closer.
+// Close frees resources used by gocv, because it has to be done manually, due to
+// it using c-go.
+func (m *MOGFilter) Close() error {
+	m.bs.Close()
+	m.kernel.Close()
+	for _, window := range m.windows {
+		window.Close()
+	}
+	return m.dst.Close()
+}
+
+// Implements io.Writer.
+// Write applies the motion filter to the video stream. Only frames with motion
+// are written to the destination encoder, frames without are discarded.
+func (m *MOGFilter) Write(f []byte) (int, error) {
+	img, _ := gocv.IMDecode(f, gocv.IMReadColor)
+	defer img.Close()
+
+	imgDelta := gocv.NewMat()
+	defer imgDelta.Close()
+
+	// Seperate foreground and background.
+	m.bs.Apply(img, &imgDelta)
+
+	// Threshold imgDelta.
+	gocv.Threshold(imgDelta, &imgDelta, 25, 255, gocv.ThresholdBinary)
+
+	// Remove noise.
+	gocv.Erode(imgDelta, &imgDelta, m.kernel)
+	gocv.Dilate(imgDelta, &imgDelta, m.kernel)
+
+	// Fill small holes.
+	gocv.Dilate(imgDelta, &imgDelta, m.kernel)
+	gocv.Erode(imgDelta, &imgDelta, m.kernel)
+
+	// Find contours and reject ones with a small area.
+	var contours [][]image.Point
+	allContours := gocv.FindContours(imgDelta, gocv.RetrievalExternal, gocv.ChainApproxSimple)
+	for _, c := range allContours {
+		if gocv.ContourArea(c) > m.area {
+			contours = append(contours, c)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Draw debug information.
+	if m.debug {
+		for _, c := range contours {
+			rect := gocv.BoundingRect(c)
+			gocv.Rectangle(&img, rect, color.RGBA{0, 0, 255, 0}, 1)
+		}
+
+		if len(contours) > 0 {
+			gocv.PutText(&img, "Motion", image.Pt(32, 32), gocv.FontHersheyPlain, 2.0, color.RGBA{255, 0, 0, 0}, 2)
+		}
+
+		m.windows[0].IMShow(img)
+		m.windows[1].IMShow(imgDelta)
+		m.windows[0].WaitKey(1)
+	}
+
+	// Don't write to destination if there is no motion.
+	if len(contours) == 0 {
+		return -1, nil
+	}
+
+	// Write to destination.
+	return m.dst.Write(f)
+}