RELEASE_NOTES.txt

OTB-v.3.12.0 - Changes since version 3.10.0 (2011/??/??)
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* Library
  * MaximumAutocorrelationFactorImageFilter
  * MultivariateAlterationDetector
  * Add Hyperspectral processing filters
    * Dimensionnality estimation :
      * EigenValueLikelihoodMaximization
      * VirtualDimensionnality
    * Dimensionnality reduction :
      * PCAImageFilter - perform forward and inverse Principal Component Analysis decomposition
      * FastICAImageFilter - perform forward and inverse Independent Component Analysis decomposition, based on FastICA algorithm
      * MNFImageFilter - perform forward and inverse Maximum Noise Fraction decomposition
      * NAPCAImageFilter - perform forward and inverse Noise Adjusted Principal Component Analysis decomposition
    * Endmember extraction :
      * VcaImageFilter - performs Vertex Component Analysis
      * MDMDNMFImageFilter - performs Minimum Spectral Dispersion Maximum Spatial Dispersion nonnegative Matrix Factorization
    * Unmixing under Linear Mixture Model hypothesis :
      * UnConstrainedLeastSquareImageFilter - standard least square solving
      * NCLSUnmixingImageFilter - least square with non-negativity constraint
      * FCLSUnmixingImageFilter - least square with non-negativity and additivity constraint
      * ISRAUnmixingImageFilter - image space reconstruction algorithm
    * Anomaly detection :
      * LocalRxDetectorFilter
    * SparseUnMixingImageFilter : finds correlation in time series using sparse representation
    * Addition of several mathematical operations to support hyperspectral filters implementation
      * AngularProjectionImageFilter
      * AngularProjectionSetImageFilter
      * BinarySpectralAngleFunctor
      * ConcatenateScalarValueImageFilter
      * DotProductImageFilter
      * SparseWvltToAngleMapperListFilter
      * ProjectiveProjectionImageFilter
      * VectorImageToMatrixImageFilter
      Different sort of gradient filter for noise estimation in MNF :
      * LocalActivityImageFilter
      * LocalGradientImageFilter
      * HorizontalSobelVectorImageFilter
      * VerticalSobelVectorImageFilter
      * SobelVectorImageFilter
  * Add Simulation module, based on Prospect and Sail
    * AtmosphericEffects
    * DataSpec5B
    * ImageSimulationMethod
    * LabelMapToSimulatedImageFilter
    * LabelToProsailParameters
    * LeafParameters
    * ReduceSpectralResponse
    * ReduceSpectralResponseClassifierRAndNIR
    * SailModel
    * SatelliteRSR
    * SpatialisationFilter
    * SurfaceReflectanceToReflectanceFilter
    * SpectralResponse
  * Improve WaveletGenerator speed, and fix reconstruction issue is multithreaded environment
  * ClampImageFilter, ClampVectorImageFilter
  * ThresholdVectorImageFilter
  * Support for writing PDS files (Planetary Data System) in ImageFileWriter, through GDALImageIO
  * ImageRegionAdaptiveSplitter, RAMDrivenAdaptiveStreamingManager,  New streaming strategy in writer, taking advantage of both tile size and pipeline memory print estimation
  * Finer progress reporting in StreamingImageFileWriter
  * Move ViewerManager application from OTB-Applications to OTB source tree, and rename as otbViewer
  * Factor MsgReporter class in OTB source tree, and reuse it in Monteverdi
  * HooverInstances, HooverConfusionMatrix : tools to evaluate a segmentation against a ground truth
  * Removed deprecated class MapProjection
  * Removed streaming and threading support from MeanShiftVectorImageFilter, since it was generating wrong labeled images
  * Pleiades data support
    * Update to openjpeg rev 1111
    * Complete rework of JPEG2000ImageIO
      * Tile caching support
      * Multithreaded decoding
      * GMLBox decoding
      * Multi-resolution decoding support
    * Experimental Pleiades metadata support in ossimplugins :
      * RPC Sensor model
      * Calibration coefficient
      * Various information about the product    
  * New application module framework (BUILD_APPLICATIONS:BOOL=ON)
    * New library OTBApplicationEngine to generate application module as shared plugin objects
    * This replaces small command line utilities in OTB-Applications
    * Command line launcher for application module
    * Generic Qt based widget to show/configure/run an application
    * Qt based GUI application launcher
    * SWIG module on top of OTBApplicationEngine to execute applications from Python and Java
    * Quickstart scripts provided for launching the commandline tools (otbcli_XXX)
      and for starting the Qt GUI (otbgui_XXX)
    * The following applications are available in this release :
      * CartographicDBValidation
        * ComputePolylineFeatureFromImage
        * DSFuzzyModelEstimation
        * VectorDataDSValidation
      * ChangeDetection
        * MultivariateAlterationDetector
      * Classification
        * ComputeImagesStatistics
        * ImageSVMClassifier
        * KMeansClassification
        * SOMClassification (Kohonen Self Organizing Map)
        * TrainSVMImagesClassifier
        * ValidateSVMImagesClassifier
      * DimensionnalityReduction
        * MaximumAutocorrelationFactor
      * Disparitymap
        * FineRegistration
        * StereoSensorModelToElevationMap
      * FeatureExtraction
        * LineSegmentDetection
      * Hyperspectral
        * VertexComponentAnalysis
        * HyperspectralUnmixing
      * Projections
        * BundleToPerfectSensor
        * ConvertCartoToGeoPoint
        * ConvertSensorToGeoPoint
        * ImageEnvelope
        * ObtainUTMZoneFromGeoPoint
        * OrthoRectification
        * RigidTransformResample
        * Superimpose
      * RadiometricIndices
        * RadiometricVegetationIndices
      * Radiometry
        * OpticalCalibration
        * SarRadiometricCalibration
      * Rasterization
        * Rasterization
      * Segmentation
        * ConnectedComponentSegmentation
        * MeanShiftSegmentation
      * Utils
        * BandMath
        * ColorMapping
        * CompareImages
        * ConcatenateImages
        * ConcatenateVectorData
        * Convert
        * ExtractROI
        * KmzExport
        * MultiResolutionPyramid
        * OSMDownloader
        * Quicklook
        * ReadImageInfo
        * Rescale
        * Smoothing
        * SplitImage
        * VectorDataExtractROIApplication
        * VectorDataSetField
        * VectorDataTransform

* System
  * Update internal Ossim to revision 20113
  * Update internal Boost to 1.47.0
  * Update internal OpenJpeg to rev 1111
  * Support for FLTK 1.3
  * Support building ossim as a DLL on windows
  * Support building ossimplugin as a DLL on windows
  * Remove Ossim, OpenThreads and OpenJpeg headers from the install tree
  
* Monteverdi
  * Support for Pleiades format
    * Support JPEG2000 image loading with multi-resolution choice
    * Quicklook generation based on JPEG2000 format capabilities
    * Support viewing of JPEG2000Images
    * Add module to uncompress an extract of a JPEG2000 image to TIFF
    * Reader module tries to save the quicklook next to the original file
      to improve loading time of JP2 files
  * Fix gaussian histogram stretching mode to avoid warning and black image
  * Support Drag'N'Drop of image and vector format into Monteverdi tree
  * Support bundle generation on MacOSX
  * ConnectedComponentSegmentation :
    * Add "Elongation" statistics parameter
    * Support single band image
    * Support extracts of images in sensor model geometry
  * Writer module(s) :
    * Use StreamingImageFileWriter to take advantage of streaming improvements
  * Add Monteverdi version number in title bar
  * Reduce KMeans module memory footprint
    * Fix sample list size from an amount of RAM
    * Release temporary filters and variables as soon as possible
    
* OTB-Applications
  * Removal of command line application migrated to OTB source tree
  * Migration of Viewermanager application to OTB source tree

* OTB-Wrapping
  * Add otb::Transform
  
* Bug fixes :
  * OTB-wrapping
    * 0000382: Build fails on CentOS 5.5 because of '$self' in java wrapper

  * Documentation
    * 0000483: "<" or ">" are interpreted as ¿ in Cookbook
    * 0000370: Cookbook : make a HTML documentation
    * 0000378: Doxygen not updated

  * OTB-lib
    * 0000392: Unable to read Landsat Tiff file. Problem with Tags reading ?
    * 0000449: In otbViewer, the slide show crashes
    * 0000416: segfault with non existing input image in the new otb applications framework
    * 0000424: Execute button enabling problem
    * 0000479: Can't write int8 image
    * 0000448: In otbViewer quicklook, navigation coordinate are not adapted to multi-res Pleiades images
    * 0000421: ListSampleGenerator is not random
    * 0000429: Trouble with .geom for Formosat
    * 0000428: itkCastImageFilter doesn't work well with streaming
    * 0000478: Exceptions thrown inside applications are not caught
    * 0000450: In otbViewer, zoom doesn't work well with link mode
    * 0000439: Can't run Qt ReadImageInfo
    * 0000380: wavelet reconstruction filter problem
    * 0000386: Remove direct use of ossim from Simulation tests
    * 0000401: Error while reading a lum image with several channels
    * 0000381: No platform testing OTB_USE_EXTERNAL_OSSIM
    * 0000393: histogram minimum filter available ?
    * 0000400: how to return objects when function uses a filter ?

  * Monteverdi
    * 0000464: FLU is not compatible with FLTK 1.3
    * 0000411: Does not support fluid 1.3
    * 0000396: Object labeling module crashes
    * 0000408: KMeans clustering crashes after a while
    * 0000480: Viewer crashes playing with histogram method
    * 0000407: Right click on any list component crashes Monteverdi
    * 0000412: Monteverdi segfaults using contextual menu on module item
    * 0000477: High memory usage in Monteverdi Viewer module with JPEG2000 images
    * 0000475: Select an Region in the Uncompressed JPEG2000 image module QL view constantly increase memory usage
    * 0000405: otbSupervisedClassificationApplication does not handle class removal properly
    * 0000474: In TileMap Import module, search place by name does not work anymore
    * 0000410: KMZ export module leaves a lot of .jpg.aux.xml files in the output directory
    * 0000404: Spectral Viewer keep image locked
    * 0000403: Save dataset (advanced version): Not available for an output of bandmath module

  * OTB-Packaging
    * 0000486: [osgeo4w] Update setup.hint to add osgearth dependency
    * 0000399: Ubuntu packaging for Monteverdi fails (resource files are missing)
    * 0000413: Update CentOS installation manual

  * OTB-applications
    * 0000438: KMeans Application crach in Qt Framework
    * 0000457: Crash of new otbApplications

  * Orfeo Toolbox (OTB)
    * 0000472: LSD application on sensor image extract produces wrond geo-positioning
    * 0000441: SWIG/Python interface for applications does not catch all exceptions
    * 0000491: Build scheduling is buggy with SWIG wrapper
    * 0000436: Calling GetParameterXXXImage("in") more than once in DoExecute() breaks streaming
    * 0000440: In SWIG/python interface to applications, an exception is thrown when setting parameters unless Init() is called before
    * 0000434: CommandLine launcher does not report outputs of the MeanShiftApplication
    * 0000431: OTB v. 3.10.0 & Snow Leopard : a bug fixed - Nov. 23, 2011
    * 0000484: Rename CMake WRAP_* options
    * 0000418: ld error on exit when using the new application framework with any engines
    * 0000419: The new QT applications framework  don't work on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.11
    * 0000473: Saving TIFF with "degenerated" sizes is highly suboptimal
    * 0000469: Clamp output values to the precision range in new application framework
    * 0000476: baseline file must have extension
    * 0000470: New applications framework input image parameter prevents from accessing to intermediate resolutions
    * 0000423: Internationalisation problem when launching application via Qt
    * 0000453: DEMConvert application becomes ready even if output parameter is empty
    * 0000426: RAM parameter has no effect in the new application framework
    * 0000442: In otb::WrapperApplication, calling Init() twice results in doubled parameters in examples
    * 0000425: In QT application launcher, some applications are ready to run with missing parameters
    * 0000420: command line error reporting is not clear ('-' vs '--')
    * 0000387: [Monteverdi] Unable to display vector data with the viewer
    * 0000390: Lots of warning from itk::Transform when using otb::GenericRSTransform
    * 0000435: OTB CommandLine wrappers parameters short key

  * Server administration
    * 0000394: Loading the blog page takes > 10s
    * 0000417: SoftwareGuide and CookBook generation logs are not uploaded to the server
    * 0000415: Hook checkstyle should allow the new add_test prototype
    * 0000414: Add a hook to avoid big files pushed to OTB-Data
    * 0000377: Sourceforge "Code" section is wrong or outdated



OTB-v.3.10.0 - Changes since version 3.8.0 (2011/06/30)
-----------------------------------------
* Monteverdi
  * New Rasterization module
  * New ImageStatistics module
  * New BayesianFusion module
  * New SAR Polarimetry modules (conversion, analysis)
  * New Vector data to image manual registration module
  * New connected component segmentation and OBIA based on user-defined criterions module
  * Removed the Orthorectification since its functionnalities are covered by the Reprojection module
  * Specify output map projection by EPSG code in reprojection module
  * Handle multi band complex images
  * Viewer module : Add "save screenshots" feature
  * Viewer module now handles a NoData field, allowing to correctly rescale ortho-images
  * DEM fields throughout the modules are now pre-filled with option in otb config file if correctly set
  * Add a rectify mode in homologous points extraction module (register image without changing resolution)
  
* Applications with command-line interfaces and GUI
  * Optical calibration
  * Vectorial objects validation based on Dempster Shafer theory framework
    * otbDSFuzzyModelEstimation
    * otbComputePolylineFeatureFromImage
    * otbVectorDataDSValidation
  * Multi-images SVM classification framework
    * EstimateImagesStatistics
    * TrainImagesClassifier
    * ValidateImagesClassifier
    * ImageSVMClassifier
  * Connected Component Segmentation and OBIA based on user-defined criterions
  * Object Detection framework (adding the Histogram of Oriented Gradient feature)
    * TrainHOGDetector 
    * HOGObjectDetector
    * MeanShiftModesDetection
    * TrainDeepSVMDetector
  * Various new utilities :
    * LineSegmentDetection
    * Superimpose
    * RigidTransformResample
    * ConcatenateVectorData
    * VectorDataExtractROIApplication
    * VectorDataTransformFilterApplication
    * OSMDownloader

* Library
  * Add HistogramOfOrientedGradientCovariantImageFunction
  * Add Framework for LANDSAT Spectral rule based classifier (contribution from J. Inglada)
  * Add Multitemporal time point interpolators : SavitzkyGolayInterpolationFunctor, EnvelopeSavitzkyGolayInterpolationFunctor (contribution from J. Inglada)
  * Add SAR Polarimetry conversions and analysis code :
    * SinclairImageFilter
    * SinclairReciprocalImageFilter
    * SinclairToCircularCovarianceMatrixFunctor
    * SinclairToCoherencyMatrixFunctor
    * SinclairToCovarianceMatrixFunctor
    * SinclairToMuellerMatrixFunctor
    * SinclairToCircularCovarianceMatrixFunctor
    * SinclairToReciprocalCircularCovarianceMatrixFunctor
    * SinclairToReciprocalCoherencyMatrixFunctor
    * SinclairToReciprocalCovarianceMatrixFunctor
    * ReciprocalLinearCovarianceToReciprocalCircularCovarianceFunctor
    * ReciprocalHAlphaFunctor
    * ReciprocalCovarianceToReciprocalCoherencyFunctor
    * ReciprocalCovarianceToCoherencyDegreeFunctor
    * CoherencyToMuellerFunctor
    * MuellerToReciprocalCovarianceFunctor
    * MuellerToPolarisationDegreeAndPowerFunctor
  * Add RationalTransform
  * Add PipelineMemoryPrintEstimator: computes the total memory used by a pipeline, and proposes streaming parameters depending on available RAM
  * Add Dempster Shafer framework
    * MassOfBelief
    * JointMassOfBeliefFilter
  * Add a Dempster-Shaffer based vectorial objects validation framework
    * TODO: List classes here
  * AssymmetricFusionOfLineDetectorImageFilter: call SetNumberOfDirections on internal filters (contribution from A. Ferro)
  * RADARSAT 1: more product types supported
  * VectorDataToImageFilter: Binary rasterization available, support images of arbitrary size
  * Add VectorDataRendering example: showing how to rasterize OSM roads onto an image for visualisation
  * LineSegmentDetector & RightAngleDetection: algorithmic improvements
  * GDALImageIO: multi dataset support (for MODIS HDF4)
  * GDALImageIO: improve performance by avoiding unnecessary memory copies
  * GDALImageIO: TIFF are now saved as TILED
  * GDALImageIO: various improvements to support reading and writing of multiband complex data with all types supported by GDAL
  * StreamingImageVirtualFileWriter, StreamingImageFileWriter : new streaming strategies, with integrated pipeline memory print estimation
  * Curl:
    * Add in-memory download support to avoid writing small temporary files
    * Better handling of the exceptions than can be thrown when using curl
  * Add ConcatenateVectorDataFilter
  * Add OSMDataToVectorDataGenerator  : Class implementing the download of the OSM file relative to an extent and a parser to generate VectorData from OSM Datas
  * Add ImageToOSMVectorDataGenerator : Helper class to compute the extent of an image, use OSMDataToVectorDataGenerator for VectorData generation
  * Add VectorDataTransformFilter     : Apply an affine transform to a VectorData
  * ImageToSURFKeyPointSetFilter      : algorithmic improvements
* System
  * Compilation on Windows and MacOS with mapnik
  * Update internal tinyXML to 2.6
  * Add ThirdPartiesUtilities: Refactoring OSSIM and CURL accesses so as to minimize dependencies using the Adapter pattern

* Bug fixes :

  * OTB-lib
    * 0000312: Systematic crash when opening images with GDAL (tif, png, jpeg, etc)
    * 0000330: Suspicious log and output problem in ioImageToKmzAndMapFileProductExport
    * 0000329: At least 2 platforms don't respect the nightly version for their dashboard submission
    * 0000298: TestDriver : returns EXIT_SUCCESS when test is not registered
    * 0000310: PersistentImageToVectorData process the input twice when only one stream is used
    * 0000273: otbHarrisImageFilter applies final smoothing only over the 0-th direction; + wrong final scaling applied
    * 0000228: Problems related to the --compare-ascii tool in OTB tests protocol
    * 0000219: HDF dataset not openable with ImageFileReader
    * 0000358: Remove ossim from otbFilterFunctionValuesDigitalGlobeTest
    * 0000320: Design issue: VectorDataIOFactory should not be a template class
    * 0000334: Some tutorials do not check argc/argv
    * 0000311: No platform testing OTB_SHOW_ALL_MSG_DEBUG set to ON for examples compilation
    * 0000245: Wrong path for GDAL_CONFIG or GDALCONFIG_EXECUTABLE cmake variable produce incoherent results in the OTB configuration
    * 0000229: OTB driver in imageFileReader must support different file extensions related to the HDF format
    * 0000222: Issues with the TerraSar-X ossim plugin
    * 0000221: Fail to retrieve the pixel spacing from image metadata.
    * 0000282: Unable to open tiff image
    * 0000237: Boost / Fltk conflict
    * 0000327: CMake configuration abort if no curl is available on system, even with OTB_USE_CURL is set to OFF
    * 0000276: Trouble with the compare ascii when separations are tabulation

  * Monteverdi
    * 0000292: Tilemap import module not working
    * 0000352: Monteverdi crashes on wrong DEM directory
    * 0000270: Open RADARSAT2 products as an SAR image in Monteverdi
    * 0000263: Vectorization module : weird behavior
    * 0000297: Crash when open change detection output image
    * 0000281: Crash opening a RAD image.
    * 0000265: SVM learn module : crash when displaying results
    * 0000254: Homologous point module
    * 0000240: Importing shp file in SVM module in Monterverdi 1.6 always results in crash
    * 0000348: Viewer setup : histogram settings disappear
    * 0000349: Labeled image can't be viewed
    * 0000249: otbTrainObjectDetector-cli: malloc(): memory corruption
    * 0000251: Wrong output of the DEM to image generator module when working on a ROI of the image in raw geometry
    * 0000226: otbSegmentationApplication: crash when overwriting a .shp file
    * 0000223: Wrong positioning of polygons from otbSegmentationApplication and open with SVMclassification module (monteverdi)
    * 0000242: Mean Shift: different display of results in the module and in  the Viewer
    * 0000317: Monteverdi extract ROI module can not perform extraction from geographical coordinates on SPOT5 data
    * 0000253: Nodata value in SRTM result in wrong ortho-rectified image
    * 0000315: Monteverdi ROI extraction module broken : can not select by drag&drop anymore
    * 0000300: One viewer instance block another instance to display another image
    * 0000269: Inoperative fields in the reprojection module
    * 0000255: Image is not visible if scroll or Full   window is minimized while working with SVM classification
    * 0000267: Vectorization-Rasterization module
    * 0000244: Pansharpening EO-1 image with Monteverdi produces NaN
    * 0000227: Monteverdi crashing while displaying a .tif file
    * 0000350: KMeans module : weird behavior of "Max nb of iterations"
    * 0000248: In feature extraction module, for haralick textures : impossible to set min/max for binning
    * 0000341: weird french warning in ms dos command window  with monteverdi 1.7 exe
    * 0000313: Unable to perform orthofusion of WV2 PAN+XS (4 bands)
    * 0000239: Trouble in pixel descrition in Monteverdi viewer
    * 0000336: Viewer Histogram settings not applied after channel order changes
    * 0000304: Advanced save dataset module with scaling on results in visible strip in image
    * 0000262: Wrong metadata interpretation
    * 0000302: Can't open two image in the viewer
    * 0000294: Monteverdi doesn't delete files in Caching
    * 0000280: SVM classification and Feature extraction issues
    * 0000247: Style of the new screenshots function in viewer module is ugly
    * 0000238: Monteverdi spreads xml temporary files everywhere
    * 0000241: A warning appears each time an image is read
    * 0000271: Default RGB channels are wrong for WV2 images
    * 0000250: Meanshift clustering module: spectral radius limited
    * 0000306: Unable to export otb::Image in KMZ in the Monteverdi module "KMZ export"
    * 0000279: Visualisation from vectorisation module does not use default channels for wv2 images

  * OTB-applications
    * 0000231: otbRasterizationApplication -pr options await for OGC WKT strings
    * 0000318: otbOSMDownloader-cli does not work anymore
    * 0000233: otbRasterizationApplication fail to rasterize SRTM water bodies shapefile with default parameters
    * 0000232: Several minor changes in rasterization application
    * 0000338: otbSegmentationApplication : Enable to use real values

  * OTB-Packaging
    * 0000296: gdal 1.8 debian package breaks TIFF support
    * 0000301: Can't upgrade debian package between different OTB versions
    * 0000347: Problem with current ubuntu Natty nightly package of Monteverdi
    * 0000290: Make an Experimental submission on the dashboard with natty
    * 0000355: Bad timestamp for nightly built Ubuntu packages
    * 0000288: Nightly packages upload when launchpad is overloaded
    * 0000345: debian package : enable mapnik
    * 0000344: debian package : use system boost
    * 0000326: CentOS packages for Monteverdi and OTB-Applications

  * OTB-Qgis
    * 0000272: problem with installation

OTB-v.3.8.0 - Changes since version 3.6.0 (2010/12/16)
-----------------------------------------

* Monteverdi
  * New Polarimetric Synthesis module
  * New DEM image extraction / HillShading module: creates an image from a DEM tiles directory, with optional hillshading
  * New ColorMapping module: apply a colormap to a mono band image
  * Viewer module: add multi input support, with slideshow or transparency mode, add more rendering functions, add splitted/packed layout option
  * Vectorization module: new semi-automatic mode based on segmentation results proposals

* Applications
  * Object Detection applications (see also http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Object_detection)
    * EstimateFeatureStatistics to evaluate descriptors statistics on a set of images
    * TrainObjectDetector: generates an SVM model from input images and a vector data
    * ObjectDetector: detects points in an image from an SVM model
  * Add automatically generated GUI wrappers for OTB processing chains
    * Add FLTK wrapper
    * Add a generic Qt based widget class
    * Add a Qt GUI wrapper based on the generic Qt widget
    * Add a Qgis plugin wrapper based on the generic Qt widget

* Library
  * Improved local descriptors tools based on ImageFunction :
    * Rework FlusserImageFunction and HuImageFunction to output all moments in one pass (FlusserMomentsImageFunction, HuMomentsImageFunction)
    * Rework RealMomentsImagefilter and ComplexMomentImageFilter to output a matrix of all moments associated to p, q inferior to a given parameter (ComplexMomentsImageFunction, HuMomentsImageFunction)
    * Add image function to compute a vector containing the local mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis (RadiometricMomentsImageFunction)
    * Add local histogram image function (LocalHistogramImageFunction)
    * Add image function to compute the local Fourier Mellin coefficients (FourierMellinDescriptorsImageFunction)
    * Add a class to adapt any image function return types to itk::VariableLengthVector (ImageFunctionAdaptor)
    * Add a class to build composite image functions (MetaImageFunction)
  * New object detection framework (see also http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Object_detection)
    * Add filter to generate negative samples (LabeledSampleLocalizationGenerator)
    * Add filter to evaluate an image function on a set of point and generate ListSample (DescriptorsListSampleGenerator)
    * Add filter to balance the sample number of different classes in a ListSample by generating new samples from existing ones plus noise (ListSampleToBalancedListSampleFilter, GaussianAdditiveNoiseSampleListFilter)
    * Add filter to apply a shift/scale to a ListSample (ShiftScaleSampleListFilter)
    * Add filter to detect object from an SVM model and an image function (ObjectDetectionClassifier)
  * SVMClassifier: add hyperplanes distances as output
  * GDALImageIO: support writing of non-streamable format (JPEG, PNG)
  * Support reading vector images of std::complex
  * BandMathFilter: add physical and image coordinates variables
  * Add a class to generate a kmz file from an image

* System
  * Internal liblas updated to 1.6.0b2 + OTB patches (root CMakeList.txt)
  * Internal libsvm updated to 3.0 + OTB patches (additionnal kernels)
  * Internal ITK: removed compilation of medical image formats library and associated ImageIO
  * Internal ITK: removed dependency on libtiff, libjpeg, libpng and zlib, now handled by gdal
  * Support for gcc-4.5
  * Remove dxflib from Utilities for licensing issues

* Bug fix:
  * Monteverdi
    * 0000216: Monteverdi viewer unable to display multi band images
    * 0000193: Crash in vectorization module when the after the activation of the semi-automatic mode
    * 0000195: unable to perform TSX calibration with the sar calibration module in monteverdi 1.4
    * 0000207: Vectorization module shift coordinates
    * 0000202: Error message "otbSVMModel.txx:310 eps <= O" in the SVM classification module
    * 0000194: error message opening dataset in monteverdi (development version)
    * 0000200: Monteverdi -in option does not open viewer anymore

  * OTB-applications
    * 0000213: Problem in denomination of otb process chain wrapped as qgis plugin
    * 0000201: otbFastOrthoRectif switched back to double precision again

  * OTB-lib
    * 0000192: Crappy support of gdal: GDALImageIO


OTB-v.3.6.0 - Changes since version 3.4.0 (2010/10/07)
-----------------------------------------

* Monteverdi
  * New Vectorization module: creates vector data (polygons, lines and points) from image
  * New BandMath module: mathematical operation on image bands
  * New SpectralViewer module: designed to display hyperspectral images. also computes spectral angle
  * New ObjectLabeling module: object based image analysis module, with SVM classification based on object features

* Applications
  * otbFastOrthoRectif: fast orthorectification based on grid subsampling
  * otbActiveLearning: architecture to enable active learning application (put your own algorithms in the middle)
  * otbCompareImages: image comparison
  * otbFineRegistration: produces disparity maps between 2 images
  * Old GUI applications removed (now in Monteverdi):  OrthoRectif, OrthoFusion, Classif, ChangeDetection, RadiometricCorrections

* Library
  * Some classes are marked as deprecated and are available for one release. A migration guide to help the transition is available at http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Migration_guide
  * Add filter to perform arbitrary mathematical operation on image bands (BandMathImageFilter)
  * Add class to parse mathematical expression (Parser)
  * Add interpolation function (BCOInterpolateImageFunction)
  * Add filter to compute the intensity of a complex image (ComplexToIntensityImageFilter)
  * Add filter to compare two big images (StreamingCompareImageFilter)
  * Add filters to compute extrema of big images (StreamingMinMaxImageFilter and StreamingMinMaxVectorImageFilter)
  * Add filter to perform fine registration between images (FineRegistrationImageFilter)
  * Add filter for higher order texture computation (ScalarImageToHigherOrderTexturesFilter and MaskedScalarImageToGreyLevelRunLengthMatrixGenerator)
  * Removal of the old textures: http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Textures
  * Add support for Worldview2 data
  * Add margin sampler for SVM (SVMMarginSampler)
  * Add generic resample filter that reproject in any arbitrary projection: cartographic, sensor model (GenericRSResampleImageFilter)
  * Add class to produce a RPC model from a physical model (PhysicalToRPCSensorModelImageFilter)
  * Add classes related to SAR calibration (SarParametricMapFunction, SarRadiometricCalibrationFunction, SarRadiometricCalibrationFunctor, SarRadiometricCalibrationToImageFilter)
  * Add an action handler for the visualization enabling dragging (DragFullWindowActionHandler)

* System
  * Internal ITK updated to 3.20.0 + OTB Patches
  * Internal OSSIM and ossim plugins updated to svn revision 18162 + OTB patches (almost none left)
  * Enable the use of an external build of libLAS
  * Support compilation on MSVC 2010 and Windows Seven
  * Better handling of FLTK configuration
  * Support compilation of Monteverdi on linux 32 bits systems with official FLTK package
  * Lots of coverage improvements

OTB-v.3.4.0 - Changes since version 3.2.0 (2010/06/30)
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* Applications
  * New utility otbConvertSensorToGeoPoint to convert from sensor coordinates to lon/lat
  * otbExtractROI can change its output type
  * New utility otbSplitImage to separate a multispectral image into N images
  * otbConcatenateImage can change its output type
  * otbConvert can now use a log transfer function when rescaling the image

* Library
  * Add HillShadingFilter to produce hill shade image from DEM (HillShadingFilter)
  * Add point set density function (gaussian, epanechnikov)
  * Add filter to extract a subset from a point set (PointSetExtractROI)
  * Add filter to apply a transform to a point set (TransformPointSetFilter)
  * Add filter to generate a random point set (RandomPointSetSource)
  * Add class to compute confusion matrix (ConfusionMatrixCalculator)
  * Add class to generate a list of samples from a vector data (ListSampleGenerator)
  * Add a class to compute the ground spacing (GroundSpacingImageFunction)
  * Add a class to read 6S spectral sensitivity files (SpectralSensitivityReader)
  * Fix radiometry correction for SPOT5
  * Fix compilation on windows using osgeo4w dependencies
  * Lots of bug fixes

* System
  * Internal ITK updated to 3.18.0 + OTB Patches
  * Internal OSSIM updated to svn revision 16861 + OTB patches
  * Internal OSSIM SAR plugins updated to svn revision 17643 + OTB patches
  * Internal libkml updated to 1.2.0
  * Internal siftfast updated to 1.2
  * Internal boost updated to 1.42


OTB-v.3.2.0 - Changes since version 3.0.0 (2010/01/15)
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* Applications
  * Monteverdi, a new all-in one user-friendly graphical tool 
    for remote sensing data processing released as a separate package 
    (see README file). Windows binary package of Monteverdi is available 
    and was installed on various operating system including 
    Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Seven. 

* Library
  The library includes these additions
  * Support for TerraSarX, Quickbird and Spot5 calibration metadata
  * Simplification of the interface to access image metadata
  * Support for Aeronet files
  * Various filters for Object Based Image Analysis based on LabelObjectMaps
  * Support for RPC sensor model estimation from a set of Ground Control Points
  * Support for affine transform least-square estimation from a set of tie points
  * Support for SVM cross-validation and parameters optimization
  * Box and Whiskey filter to detect outliers on VectorImage
  * Add several Euclidian distance classes
  * Exhaustive exponential optimizer for learning
  * Enhanced SOM algorithm taking into account invalid missing values
  * Wavelet transform
  * Filters for GIS database interaction (postgis database)
  * ImageFileWriter now supports streaming natively
  * Use of a configuration file to change some parameters without recompiling
  * Lots of bug fixes

* System
  * Internal ITK updated to 3.16.0 + OTB Patches
  * Internal OSSIM updated to svn revision 15872 + OTB patches
  * Home brewed metadata SAR reader were moved to ossimplugins
  * Experimental support for internationalization
  * Facilitate installation on Mac OSX platform (OTB is now able 
  to compile on Mac OSX by using external libraries like GDAL downloaded 
  from Macports)

  

OTB-v.3.0.0 - Changes since version 2.8.0 (2009/05/11)
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* Applications
  - Urban area extraction (Pléaides, QB, Ikonos, SPOT5). For more details, 
  see the README file
  - Image to Data Base registration (Pléiades, QB). For more details, see 
  the README file 
  - Feature Extraction: add new textures, new radiometric indexes and 
  add MeanShift capabilities 

 
* Library
  The library includes these additions
  - Cloud detection for QB/Pléiades images
  - Alignment and right angle detection (Burns, Grompone)
  - Radiometric indices (vegetation, water, soil)
  - Optimized texture computations including Haralick, SFS, Pantex, Edge density
  - SIFT density image function and filter 
  - Object-based segmentation and filtering
  - LSD line segment detector and right angle detector
  - PCA computation
  - Automated loading of radiometric correction parameters (SPOT, Ikonos)
  - Attribute support for shapefile (reading only)
  - Optimization of vector data
  - Visualisation refactoring: for more details,
   see http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Visualisation_Refactoring

* System
  - Updated OSSIM library
  - Updated ITK library (3.12.0)
  - Miscellaneous bug fixes (support for gdal 1.6) 
  - Fixed some problems under Visual and Cygwin platforms.

* Distribution
  - Distribution of Windows binaries packages installation for 
  OTB-Application (OTB-Applications-3.0.0-win32.exe) 
  - Distribution of Windows binaries packages for GDAL library 1.6.0 for 
  MSVC V71 and MSVC V80 compiler (http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/packages) 


OTB-v.2.8.0 - Changes since version 2.6.0 (2009/01/15)
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* System
	- ITK version updated to 3.10.1
	- liblas library added
	- ossim gdal plugin added
	- change in OpenGL access for viewer
	- Edison code from mean shift

* Library
	- Support for Lidat data
	- SIFT and SURF implementation
	- Mean Shift algorithm
	- Conversion of vector data projection (kml, shapefiles)

* Applications
	- Object counting
	- Fine Registration
	- Road Extraction



OTB-v.2.6.0 - Changes since version 2.4.0 (2008/10/31)
-----------------------------------------

* System
	- GCC 4.3 compatibility
	- ITK version updated to 3.8
	- FLTK version updated to 1.1.9
	- OpenThreads library added
	- Expat library added

* Library
	- SAR Polarimetry synthesis classes
	- Kullback Leibler supervised change detection
	- KML support
	- Gabor filters implementation
	- Optimized convolution using FFT
	- CNES RAD format support
	- NCC and MI registration filters for diparity map estimation
	- Support for MegaWave image format (contributed by Eric Bughin)

* Applications
	- Object segmentation application
	- Feature extraction application
	- Land Cover Map application
	- SAR polarimetric synthesis application
	- 3D & stereo anaglyh viewer application
	- Command line conversion from/to all image formats supported by OTB


OTB-v.2.4.0 - Changes since version 2.2.0 (2008/07/24)
-----------------------------------------

	- Added OTB_DISABLE_CXX_EXAMPLES_TESTING : allows to generate or 
	not only examples testing
	- Added OTB_USE_JPEG2000 : experimental support for jpeg2000 files.

*Common:

	Extraction ROI Classes :
	- Lifting of the otbExtractionBase classe
	- Correction of the SetExtractionRegion method

*BasicFilters:

	- Added pixel size matching in otbSpectralAngleDistanceImageFilter
	- Modification of otb::ConvolutionImageFilter class to allow the 
	use of non-normalized convolution filters

*Platforms:

	- Fixed compilation problems using external FLTK version < 1.1.9 
	under fedora unix distribution.
        - Mac OS X 10.5 supported

*Applications:

        - Added an supervised image classification application (otbSupervisedClassification)
        - Added an orthorectifcation application (otbOrthoRectifAppli)
        - Added an orthofusion application (otbOrthoFusionAppli)

*Markov:
	Added full Markov framework for segmentation, restauration and filtering
	Added related classes:
	- otb::MarkovRandomFieldFilter
	- otb::MRFEnergyEdgeFidelity
	- otb::MRFEnergyGaussianClassification
	- otb::MRFEnergyGaussian
	- otb::MRFEnergy
	- otb::MRFEnergyPotts
	- otb::MRFOptimizer
	- otb::MRFOptimizerICM
	- otb::MRFOptimizerMetropolis
	- otb::MRFSampler
	- otb::MRFSamplerMAP
	- otb::MRFSamplerRandom
	- otb::MRFSamplerRandomMAP
	Added related examples:
	- MarkovClassification1Example
	- MarkovClassification2Example
	- MarkovRegularizationExample
	- MarkovRestaurationExample

*Projections
	Added Lambert 93 cartographic projection with otb::Lambert93Projection class

* Utilities:

  - Corrections on new SAR models integrated to OSSIM during release 2.2.0

OTB-v.2.2.0 - Changes since version 2.0.0 (2008/05/29)
-----------------------------------------


*BasicFilters:

        Added classes for data importation:
        - otb::ImportImageFilter
        - otb::ImportVectorImageFilter
        Added classes for image interpolation:
        - otb::WindowedSincInterpolateImageBlackmanFunction
        - otb::WindowedSincInterpolateImageCosineFunction
        - otb::WindowedSincInterpolateImageGaussianFunction
        - otb::WindowedSincInterpolateImageHammingFunction
        - otb::WindowedSincInterpolateImageLanczosFunction
        - otb::WindowedSincInterpolateImageWelchFunction
        - otb::ProlateInterpolateImageFunction
        Added class for resampling
        - otb::RationalQuotientResampleImageFilter
        Added classes for labelization
        - otb::LabelizeImageFilterBase
        - otb::LabelizeConfidenceConnectedImageFilter
        - otb::LabelizeConnectedThresholdImageFilter
        - otb::LabelizeNeighborhoodConnectedImageFilter

*Radiometry:

        - Bug fixed on otb::DEMCaracteristicExtractor

*Visu

        - Added histogram windows in otb::ImageViewer main class.
        - Added polygon drawing support in otb::ImageViewer main class

*IO:

        - Fixed bug in GDALImageIO to handle complex images
        Added classes for vector data use:
        - otb::VectorDataFileReader
        - otb::VectorDataFileWriter
        - otb::VectorDataIOFactory
        - otb::VectorDataSource

*Common:

        Added classes to handle vector data:
        - otb::Polygon
        - otb::VectorData
        - otb::DataNode

        Added classes to watch filter progression (ASCII mode):
        - otb::StandardFilterWatcher
        - otb::FilterWatcherBase

*Learning:

        - Creation otb::SVMKernels containing a list a useful kernel for SVM
        - Correction in Kohonen	map classes
        - Added convenience methods in SVMModel class

        Added classification filters (streamed and threaded):
        - otb::SVMImageClassificationFilter
        - otb::SOMImageClassificationFilter
        - otb::KMeansImageClassificationFilter

*FeatureExtraction:

        Added implementation of Scalar Invariant Feature Transform
        - otb::ImageToSIFTKeyPointSetFilter

*MultiScale:

        Added mono and multi-scale convex/concave image classification 
       based on geodesic morphology characteristics.
        - otb::ConvexOrConcaveClassificationFilter
        - otb::GeodesicMorphologyDecompositionImageFilter
        - otb::GeodesicMorphologyIterativeDecompositionImageFilter
        - otb::GeodesicMorphologyLevelingFilter
        - otb::ImageToProfileFilter
        - otb::MorphologicalClosingProfileFilter
        - otb::MorphologicalOpeningProfileFilter
        - otb::MultiScaleConvexOrConcaveClassificationFilter
        - otb::ProfileDerivativeToMultiScaleCharacteristicsFilter
        - otb::ProfileToProfileDerivativeFilter

*Utilities:

        - Updated the internal version of ITK to 3.6.0
        - Corrections on OSSIM integration
        - SVM library: creation of otb::ComposedKernelFunctor 
        allowing composed kernels
        - Added SAR models in OSSIM library:
                . Radarsat 1 (SGX and SGF)
                . Envisat ASAR - SLC (IMS, APS) and PRI (IMP, APP)
                . ERS - SLC and PRI
                . Terrasar X - SLC and PRI
                . Cosmo-Skymed - SLC and PRI
                . Radarsat 2 - SLC and PRI
        - Bug fixed in CMake configuration
        - Added SIFT implementation in InsigthJournal

*Applications:
        - Various Bug fix
        - otbConvertGeoToCartoPoint and otbConvertCartoToGeoPoint map precision enhancement
        - Added of histogram manipulation functionalities in otbImageViewer
        - Added of shape file functionalities and large image support in 
        ICD application
        - Added otbConcatenateImages application to concatenate multiple 
        image in the spectral domain
        - Added an unsupervised image classification application based 
        on the KMeans algorithm (otbKMeansClassification)
        - Added an unsupervised image classification application based 
        on the SOM algorithm (otbSOMClassification)
        - Added an unsupervised image classification application based 
        on the SVM algorithm (otbSVMClassification)
        - Added an application to create a contiguous unsigned short 
        labeled image from a colored labeled image (otbUnsignedShortRelabeling)
        - Added an application to create a colored labeled image from an 
        unsigned short labeled image (otbRgbRelabeling)

*Examples:
        - Added SIFT example (otb)
        - Added SIFT example (ij)
        - Added LabelizeNeighborhoodConnected example
        - Added RationQuotientResample example

*Platforms:

	- Fixed some problems under Visual, Cygwin and MinGW platforms.


OTB-v.2.0.0 - Changes since version 1.6.0 (2007/12/14)
-----------------------------------------


*Projections

        - Bug correction in otb::OrthoRectificationFilter

*Fusion

        - Added simple Pansharpening algorithm
        - Fixed streaming bug on BayesianFusion filter

*Radiometry:

        Added classes for atmospheric correction using the 6S Radiative Transfer Code:
        - Luminance estimation otb::ImageToLuminanceImageFilter
        - Reflectance estimation TOA: otb::LuminanceToReflectanceImageFilter
        - Added Composite transform filter: otb::ImageToReflectanceImageFilter,
          equivalent to the pipeline process ImageToLuminanceImageFilter 
          and LuminanceToReflectanceImageFilter filters
        - Reflectance estimation TOC: otb::ReflectanceToSurfaceReflectanceImageFilter
        - 6S effect correction: otb::SurfaceAdjacencyEffect6SCorrectionSchemeFilter
        - DEM slope and shading estimations: otb::DEMCaracteriticsExtractor

*Common:

        - Added otb::UnaryFunctorNeighborhoodVectorImageFilter
        - Fixed bug on otb::ExtractROIBase class

*IO:

        - Bug fixed on otb::VectorImage class

*BasicFilters:

        - Bug correction in otb::StreamingStatisticsVectorImageFilter, 
        otb::StreamingStatisticsImageFilter,StreamingMatrixTransposeMatrixImageFilter
        - Added PrintableImageFilter
        - Fixed bugs on otb::FrostImageFilter and otb::LeeImageFilter

*Utilities:

        - Fixed memory allocation bug on svm.cxx file
        - 4 files from ITK 3.4.0 have been replaced by the cvs version to allow
        correct use of the itkDivideImageFilter.h with VectorImage. These files
        are:
            Common/itkNumericTraitsVariableLengthVectorPixel.h
            Common/itkNumericTraitsVariableLengthVectorPixel.cxx
            Common/itkConceptChecking.h
            BasicFilters/itkDivideImageFilter.h

*Examples

        - Tutorials: Added OrthoFusion example
        - Radiometry: Added AtmosphericCorrectionSequencement example

*Applications:

        - Rename Pireo application to otbPireo
        - Added transform coordinate point applications: otbConvertCartoToGeo 
        otbConvertGeoToCarto
        - Pireo corrections in CMakeLists.txt (GUI dir source code) and 
        source code (suppress of call VnlModifiedOptimizer class)

*Platforms:

	- Fixed some problems under Visual and MinGW platforms.



OTB-v.1.6.0 - Changes since version 1.4.0 (2007/10/25)
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