diff --git a/camera/SCP.py b/camera/SCP.py
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+++ b/camera/SCP.py
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+import tempfile, pexpect
+
+def scp(src_name, dest_name, host, user, password, timeout=30, bg_run=False):
+    """SSH'es to a host using the supplied credentials and executes a command.
+    Throws an exception if the command doesn't return 0.
+    bgrun: run command in the background"""
+
+    fname = tempfile.mktemp()
+    fout = open(fname, 'w')
+
+    options = '-q -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -oPubkeyAuthentication=no'
+    if bg_run:
+        options += ' -f'
+    scp_cmd = 'scp %s %s@%s:%s' % (src_name, user, host, dest_name)
+    child = pexpect.spawn(scp_cmd, timeout=timeout, encoding='UTF-8')
+    child.expect(['password: '])
+    child.sendline(password)
+    child.logfile = fout
+    
+    child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
+
+
+    # We expect any of these three patterns...
+    #i = child.expect (['Permission denied', 'Terminal type', '[#\$] '])
+    #if i==0:
+    #    print('Permission denied on host. Can\'t login')
+    #    child.kill(0)
+    #elif i==1:
+    #    print('Login OK... need to send terminal type.')
+    #    child.sendline('vt100')
+    #    child.expect('[#\$] ')
+    #elif i==2:
+    #    print('Login OK.')
+    #    print('Shell command prompt', child.after)
+
+    child.close()
+    fout.close()
+
+    fin = open(fname, 'r')
+    stdout = fin.read()
+    fin.close()
+
+    if 0 != child.exitstatus:
+        raise Exception(stdout)
+    return stdout
diff --git a/camera/person-detection.py b/camera/person-detection.py
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+++ b/camera/person-detection.py
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+# import the necessary packages
+from __future__ import print_function
+from imutils.object_detection import non_max_suppression
+from imutils import paths
+import numpy as np
+import argparse
+import imutils
+import cv2
+
+# construct the argument parse and parse the arguments
+ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ap.add_argument("-i", "--images", required=True, help="path to images directory")
+args = vars(ap.parse_args())
+
+# initialize the HOG descriptor/person detector
+hog = cv2.HOGDescriptor()
+hog.setSVMDetector(cv2.HOGDescriptor_getDefaultPeopleDetector())
+
+# loop over the image paths
+for imagePath in paths.list_images(args["images"]):
+    # load the image and resize it to (1) reduce detection time
+    # and (2) improve detection accuracy
+    image = cv2.imread(imagePath)
+    image = imutils.resize(image, width=min(400, image.shape[1]))
+    orig = image.copy()
+
+    # detect people in the image
+    (rects, weights) = hog.detectMultiScale(image, winStride=(4, 4),
+    padding=(8, 8), scale=1.05)
+
+    # draw the original bounding boxes
+    for (x, y, w, h) in rects:
+        cv2.rectangle(orig, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (0, 0, 255), 2)
+
+    # apply non-maxima suppression to the bounding boxes using a
+    # fairly large overlap threshold to try to maintain overlapping
+    # boxes that are still people
+    rects = np.array([[x, y, x + w, y + h] for (x, y, w, h) in rects])
+    pick = non_max_suppression(rects, probs=None, overlapThresh=0.65)
+
+    # draw the final bounding boxes
+    for (xA, yA, xB, yB) in pick:
+        cv2.rectangle(image, (xA, yA), (xB, yB), (0, 255, 0), 2)
+
+    # show some information on the number of bounding boxes
+    filename = imagePath[imagePath.rfind("/") + 1:]
+    print("[INFO] {}: {} original boxes, {} after suppression".format(filename, len(rects), len(pick)))
+
+    # show the output images
+    #cv2.imshow("Before NMS", orig)
+    #cv2.imshow("After NMS", image)
+    #cv2.waitKey(0)