RELEASE_NOTES.txt

OTB-v.3.14.1 - Changes since version 3.14.0 (2012/10/02)
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* Library
  * Support external FLTK 1.3 on windows
  * Simplify GDAL import during configuration
  * Remove ossim dependencies from aeronet file reader
  * Add adjacency effect in OpticalCalibration application
  * Improve Pleiades support :
    * TOA optical calibration available
    * Improve support of mega tiles products
  

* Monteverdi
  * Support of MacOSX 10.8

* Bug fixes :
  * OTB-lib
    * 0000577: Remove the need for both GDAL_CONFIG and GDALCONFIG_EXECUTABLE
    * 0000573: tiff error in ossim when we read big uncompress JPEG2000 with Pleiades Primary level
    * 0000552: Application GridBasedImageResampling doesn't behave properly outside the input grid
    * 0000576: ImageToPointSetFilter work only with PointSets of type DefaultStaticMeshTraits
    * 0000575: Not able to access SDS layers in HDF4 datasets using BandMath
    * 0000572: using Segmentation application with .kml vector output using input which is not in WGS84 causes error
    * 0000586: OTB does not compile with gcc 4.7 on some distros
    * 0000579: Can not use files with "--" in their names in applications
    * 0000556: Help parameters display output wrong MISSING parameters with application launched via command line
    * 0000507: Java wrapper installation

  * Monteverdi
    * 0000570: SVM classification module works only with three bands images
    * 0000583: Weird spacing value for the Resampling module output
    * 0000581: Mean Shift Clustering Crash
    * 0000474: In TileMap Import module, search place by name does not work anymore
    * 0000529: Monteverdi fails to build using fltk 1.3 opensuse 12.1
    * 0000582: Save/Quit button in the Resampling module does not close the module
    * 0000571: Monteverdi crash in SVM Classification when trying to import SVM model twice

  * Documentation
    * 0000366: SG-html has 2 "bibliography"
    * 0000371: Generate_FAQ script needs updates
    * 0000367: Software Guide HTML : missing index.html
    * 0000372: clean up Cookbook generation logs


OTB-v.3.14.0 - Changes since version 3.12.0 (2012/07/09)
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* Library
  * New MeanShift implementation
    * Add MeanShiftSmoothingImageFilter class with threading support
    * Add MeanShiftKernels class
    * Add MeanShiftConnectedComponentSegmentationFilter class to
      concatenate MeanShift filter and connected component
    * Add MeanShiftSegmentationFilter which performs segmentation of an
      image by chaining a mean shift filter and region merging filter.
    * Move MeanShiftVectorImageFilterExample to
      MeanShiftSegmentationFilterExample
    * MeanShiftImageFilter and MeanShiftVectorImageFilter are now
      deprecated

  * OGR encapsulation for use in large-scale segmentation framework
    * Add a method converting a DataTree node to a list of OGRLayer*
    * Add OGRDataSourceWrapper, OGRDriversInit, OGRLayerWrapper,
      OGRFieldWrapper, OGRFeatureWrapper, OGRGeometryWrapper and OGR
      classes to encapsulate OGR in the otb namespace
    * Add GeometriesProjectionFilter, GeometriesSet, GeometriesSource and
      GeometriesToGeometriesFilter classes to encapsulate OGR Geometries
      projection
    * Add OGRHelpers class for easier conversion to OGR string
    * Add GeometriesProjectionFilter filter to
    * Add ImageReference, OGRGeometriesVisitor classes

  * Large-scale Segmentation Framework (OBIA)
    * Create a new repository Segmentation
    * Add GdalDataTypeBridge
    * Add LabelImageToVectorDataFilter class
    * Add StreamingImageToOGRLayerSegmentationFilter class which allow
      stream segmentation and vectorization of the output label image
      (based on OGRWrappers)
    * Add LabelImageToOGRDataSourceFilter class to use GDALPolygonize
      method to transform a Label image into a OGRDataSource
    * Add PersistentImageToOGRDataFilter class. This class is a generic
      PersistentImageFilter, which encapsulate any filter which produces
      OGR data from an input Image
    * Add option 4Connected/8Connected for Polygonization in
      LabelImageToVectorDataFilter and LabelImageToOGRDataSourceFilter
    * Add OGRLayerStreamStitchingFilter class to make fusion of geometries
      in a layer (ogr) along streaming lines (based on OGRWrappers).
    * Add LabelImageRegionMergingFilter class
    * Add Example about OGRWrappers and HooverMetrics

  * Pleiades Support
    * enhance support of PHR data with DIMAPv2 official root_tag
    * manage all cases from geotransform return by GDALJP2metadata
    * enhance support of PHR data with GML box and Sensor Model
    * Add TileImageFilter to support mosaic tiled images
    * Support of TIFF pleiades image and associated DIMAP metadata
    * upport for DIMAPv1 metadata format

  * Stereo-rectification framework
    * Add StereorectificationDeformationFieldSource class
    * Add BlockMatchingImageFilter class for fast 2D block-matching
    * Add NCCBlockMatching functor
    * Add LPBlockMatching functor
    * Adding an optionnal geoid file, and the possibility to use height
      above ellispoid in DEMToImageGenerator
    * Add SubPixelDisparityImageFilter class to interpolate disparities
    * Add DisparityMapMedianFilter class
    * Add AdhesionCorrectionFilter class
    * Add DisparityMapToDEMFilter
    * Add example in DisparityMap/StereoReconstructionExample

  * Miscellaneous
    * Modify otbImageLayer to enable the contrast stretch on full or
      zoom view in Monteverdi Viewer module
    * Add RasterizeVectorDataFilter class
    * Add VectorDataToLabelImageFilter for VectorData rasterization
      using an attribute to get the color for burning
    * Add GDALDriverManagerWrapper class
    * Add VectorDataEditVertexActionHandler class to allow user editing
      of vertex in vector data.
    * Add VectorDataTranslateGeometryActionHandler class to handles the
      user action for geometries translation
    * Add VectorDataEditionModel class for vertex edition and geometries
      translation
    * Add a method to remove a specific geometry in the VectorData
    * AddVectorData method always do notification, add a flag (set to
      true by default) to allow disabling it
    * Enhance the support for Spot 1,2,3 metadata related to radiometry
    * Add UnaryFunctorWithIndexWithOutputSizeImageFilter which implements
      neighborhood-wise generic operation on image
    * Add WatershedSegmentationFilter composite filter to allow use of
      itk watershed inside large segmentation framework
    * Add LabelImageRegionPruningFilter filter to merges regions in the
      input label image according to the input image of spectral values
      and the RangeBandwidth parameter.
    * Rename VectorDataToImageFilter to VectorDataToMapFilter
    * Move Hoover framework to Code/Segmentation
    * Make RationalTransform inheriting from otb::Transform instead
      of itk::Transform
    * Add Spacing and Origin to RationalTransform
    * Fix bug in computation of NDBBBI for Spectral rule based classifier
    * Remove deprecated classes :
      * QuickLookImageGenerator (replaced by StreamingShrinkImageFilter)
      * GeometricMomentImageFunction (unused)
    * Improve removal of geometries in VectorDataEditionModel
    * HistogramActionHandler : avoid changing positions outside viewed
      range
    * PixelDescriptionModel : make the request for placename optional
      (lags when internet access is slow)
    * PackedWidgetManager : add Shown method, add Resizable setter
    * Patch internal muparser to avoid bugs with static storage varialbe
      deallocation in plugin context
    * Modify MetaDataKey to avoid bugs with static storage varialbe
      deallocation in plugin context
    * Enable KML writing using OGR (was previously done internally
      by libkml)
    * GenericRSTransform can now be optimized using a set of tie-points,
      calling ossim internal sensor model refining implementation
    * PackedWidgetManager & SplittedWidgetManager : add method to set the
      label of each group
    * HistogramActionHandler : limit moves of asymptots with min/max of
      histogram
    * Curve2DWidget : add label support for each histogram
    * ImageToEnvelopeVectorDataFilter : support a sampling rate in pixels
      to be able to generate more than the four corners
    * GeoInformationConversion : add IsESRIValidWKT to test WKT for shp
      file support
    * OGRIOHelper : ensure OGR driver manager is initialized when we need it

  * New Applications
    * Add PixelValue application
    * Add HooverCompareSegmentation application
    * Add GridBasedImageResampling application to perform grid-based
      image resampling
    * Add StereoRectificationGridGenerator application
    * Add RadiometricWaterIndices application
    * Add FineRegistration application for pixel-wise horizontal block
      matching
    * Add BlockMatching application
    * Add DimensionalityReduction application
    * Add LargeScaleSegmentation application
    * Add DisparityMapToElevationMap application
    * Add ComputeImageFeatures application
    * Add VectorDataReprojection application

  * Misc. Applications
    * Add image origin to ReadImageInfoApplication
    * Use now InputFilenameParameter and OutputFilenameParameter instead
      of FilenameParameter
    * Use InputFilename and OuputFilename instead of Filename
    * New option in SVMClassifier application: sample.edg (non mandatory)
      to manage special cases with small samples
    * In KMeansClassification, Changing the random intialisation method
      since it can generate centroids that are too far from the image
      distribution and will never move
    * Add AddRANDParameter option in order to set mersenne twister seed
      for test reproducibility purpose
    * Display which key is wrong in a set of application parameters