OpenCV 1.0 new features

October, 2006

>>> New functionality/features: <<< - General: * Windows installation package now includes precompiled Python module * Borland C++ (v5.6+) makefiles re-added (see _make\make_all_bc.mak) - CV: * Inpainting was added, see samples/c/inpaint.cpp (thanks to Alexander Kibkalo and Alexey Kalinichenko) - MLL: * Boosted tree classifiers added, see MLL reference manual - HighGUI: * Jpeg2000 and EXR support in highgui using JasPer and OpenEXR (thanks to Nils Hasler) OpenEXR is not built-in to highgui on Windows by default. See otherlibs/_graphics/readme.txt. * >8-bit image input/output for PNG, Jpeg2000 and OpenEXR (thanks to Nils Hasler) * Updated CMUcamera wrapper. * Several V4L2 improvements and fixes - New samples (opencv/samples): * Camera calibration sample: calibrate.cpp * Inpainting sample: inpaint.cpp * Letter recognition using the existing database with random trees/boosted trees/neural nets: leter_recog.cpp * A few new Python samples. - Tests: * Most old cv tests have been rewritten/converted to use cxts instead of trs. TRS is not used by the tests anymore. >>> Bug fixes: <<< Many thanks to everybody who submitted bug reports and/or provided the patches! * Incorrect normalization in cvFindFundamentalMat (SF #1550855) * Occasional cvGetQuadrangleSubPix crashes (SF #1549168) * Occasional cvCalcOpticalFlowPyrLK crashes * Internal GCC 3.x error in cvFloor/cvCeil (SF #1546657) * Several Python-related bugs (SF #1570109, SF #1572800, SF #1543593) * Bugs in contour processing/rendering (SF #1550889, * x86-64 related bugs (SF #1526133, SF #1527997) * OpenCV dispatcher tried to load old versions of IPP (pre 4.x) that caused many failures (see SF #1555093, for example) * Inaccurate results in some cases in cvFitEllipse, cvFitLine, cvHoughCircles. * Severe bug in Bayesian classifier, broken regression tree in MLL * Overflow in blurring filter * cvSaveImage() modified saved images leading to potential problems in threaded apps. * Numeric values in XML/YAML were emitted/parsed incorrectly on some non-US locales in Linux * VS2005 Express/Standard Editions could not build OpenCV (due to missing OpenMP support) * ... >>> Known issues: * Certain tests may fail on IA64 (Itanium), e.g. gaussian filter, fundamental matrix estimation, chessboard detector. ...