Setting up on Macbook Pro M1 Tenserflow with OpenCV, Scipy, Scikit-learn - tensorflow

Question

I think I read pretty much most of the guides on setting up tensorflow, tensorflow-hub, object detection on Mac M1 on BigSur v11.6. I managed to figure out most of the errors after more than 2 weeks. But I am stuck at OpenCV setup. I tried to compile it from source but seems like it can't find the modules from its core package so constantly can't make the file after the successful cmake build. It fails at different stages, crying for different libraries, despite they are there but max reached 31% after multiple cmake and deletion of the build folder or the cmake cash file. So I am not sure what to do in order to make successfully the file.
I git cloned and unzipped the opencv-4.5.0 and opencv_contrib-4.5.0 in my miniforge3 directory. Then I created a folder "build" in my opencv-4.5.0 folder and the cmake command I use in it is (my miniforge conda environment is called silicon and made sure I am using arch arm64 in bash environment):
cmake -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR=arm64 -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64 -DWITH_OPENJPEG=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=/Users/adi/miniforge3/opencv_contrib-4.5.0/modules -D PYTHON3_EXECUTABLE=/Users/adi/miniforge3/envs/silicon/bin/python3.8 -D BUILD_opencv_python2=OFF -D BUILD_opencv_python3=ON -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=OFF -D OPENCV_ENABLE_NONFREE=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON /Users/adi/miniforge3/opencv-4.5.0
So it cries like:
[ 20%] Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libopencv_core.dylib
[ 20%] Built target opencv_core
make: *** [all] Error 2
or also like in another tries was initially asking for calib3d or dnn but those libraries are there in the main folder opencv-4.5.0.
The other way I try to install openCV is with conda:
conda install opencv
But then when I test with
python -c "import cv2; cv2.__version__"
it seems like it searches for the ffmepg via homebrew (I didn't install any of these via homebrew but with conda). So it complained:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/adi/miniforge3/envs/silicon/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cv2/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
from .cv2 import *
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/adi/miniforge3/envs/silicon/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cv2/cv2.cpython-38-darwin.so, 2): Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/ffmpeg/lib/libavcodec.58.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/adi/miniforge3/envs/silicon/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cv2/cv2.cpython-38-darwin.so
Reason: image not found
Though I have these libs, so when I searched with: find /usr/ -name 'libavcodec.58.dylib' I could find many locations:
find: /usr//sbin/authserver: Permission denied
find: /usr//local/mysql-8.0.22-macos10.15-x86_64/keyring: Permission denied
find: /usr//local/mysql-8.0.22-macos10.15-x86_64/data: Permission denied
find: /usr//local/hw_mp_userdata/Internet_Manager/OnlineUpdate: Permission denied
/usr//local/lib/libavcodec.58.dylib
/usr//local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.4_2/lib/libavcodec.58.dylib
(silicon) MacBook-Pro:opencv-4.5.0 adi$ ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.4_2/lib/libavcodec.58.dylib /opt/homebrew/opt/ffmpeg/lib/libavcodec.58.dylib
ln: /opt/homebrew/opt/ffmpeg/lib/libavcodec.58.dylib: No such file or directory
One of the guides said to install homebrew also in arm64 env, so I did it with:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
alias ibrew='arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew' # create brew for intel (ibrew) and arm/ silicon
Not sure if that is affecting it but seems like it didn't do anything because still uses /opt/homebrew/ instead of /usr/local/.
So any help would be highly appreciated if I can make any of the ways work. Ultimately I want to use Tenserflow Model Zoo Object Detection models. So all the other dependencies seems fine (for now) besides either OpenCV not working or if it is working with conda install then it seems that scipy and scikit-learn don't work.

Answer 1

In my case I also had lot of trouble trying to install both modules. I finally managed to do so but to be honest not really sure how and why. I leave below the requirements in case you might want to recreate the environment that worked in my case. You should have the conda Miniforge 3 installed :
# This file may be used to create an environment using:
# $ conda create --name <env> --file <this file>
# platform: osx-arm64
absl-py=1.0.0=pypi_0
astunparse=1.6.3=pypi_0
autocfg=0.0.8=pypi_0
blas=2.113=openblas
blas-devel=3.9.0=13_osxarm64_openblas
boto3=1.22.10=pypi_0
botocore=1.25.10=pypi_0
c-ares=1.18.1=h1a28f6b_0
ca-certificates=2022.2.1=hca03da5_0
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certifi=2021.10.8=py39hca03da5_2
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cycler=0.11.0=pypi_0
expat=2.4.4=hc377ac9_0
flatbuffers=2.0=pypi_0
fonttools=4.31.1=pypi_0
gast=0.5.3=pypi_0
gluoncv=0.10.5=pypi_0
google-auth=2.6.0=pypi_0
google-auth-oauthlib=0.4.6=pypi_0
google-pasta=0.2.0=pypi_0
grpcio=1.42.0=py39h95c9599_0
h5py=3.6.0=py39h7fe8675_0
hdf5=1.12.1=h5aa262f_1
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importlib-metadata=4.11.3=pypi_0
jmespath=1.0.0=pypi_0
keras=2.8.0=pypi_0
keras-preprocessing=1.1.2=pypi_0
kiwisolver=1.4.0=pypi_0
krb5=1.19.2=h3b8d789_0
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protobuf=3.19.4=pypi_0
pyasn1=0.4.8=pypi_0
pyasn1-modules=0.2.8=pypi_0
pydot=1.4.2=pypi_0
pyparsing=3.0.7=pypi_0
python=3.9.7=hc70090a_1
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python-graphviz=0.8.4=pypi_0
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tensorflow-deps=2.8.0=0
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tzdata=2021e=hda174b7_0
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zipp=3.7.0=pypi_0
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