Merge main branch into pyright PR

- Resolved merge conflicts by keeping type safety fixes from current branch
- Updated dependency versions from main (pandas, opencv-python, etc.)
- Preserved Python 3.8+ compatibility and pyright configuration
- Maintained pyright integration in static tests

Co-authored-by: Angelos Evripiotis <aevri@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: claude[bot]

pyproject.toml

@@ -95,4 +95,4 @@ reportCallIssue = "none"
 reportAttributeAccessIssue = "none"
 reportArgumentType = "none"
 reportGeneralTypeIssues = "none"
-reportOptionalSubscript = "none"
+reportOptionalSubscript = "none"

requirements.txt

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 colorama==0.4.6
 docformatter==1.7.7
-opencv-python==4.11.0.86
-pandas==2.3.0
-pycodestyle==2.13.0
-pyflakes==3.3.2
+opencv-python==4.12.0.88
+pandas==2.3.1
+pycodestyle==2.14.0
+pyflakes==3.4.0
 pygame==2.6.1
 pyright==1.1.402
-pytest==8.4.0
-ruff==0.11.13
-pytorch-lightning==2.5.0.post0
+pytest==8.4.1
+ruff==0.12.2
+pytorch-lightning==2.5.2
 torchvision==0.22.1
 tqdm==4.67.1
 vulture==2.14
-wandb==0.20.0
+wandb==0.21.0