libvisiontransfer  10.8.0
Changelog for Nerian Vision Software Release

10.8.0 (2024-08-06)

  • Handling for new device behavior which refuses new client connections when a previous one is still active (UDP and TCP)
  • Backward-compatible fast disconnect for UDP clients
  • API
    • C++: moved internal headers to internal/ directory
    • Future-proofed ImageSet and parameter ABIs
  • GenTL
    • Added support for configuring trigger output pins
    • Added feature to change L/R camera input pixel format
    • Removed need for capturing one frame before connection is completed (better integration with external triggering)
    • Fixed issue with device enumeration / access from MATLAB
    • Fixed issue with cleanly closing a device after a network connection is lost (Windows)
    • Fixed issue with too coarse increments for Width/Height

10.7.0 (2024-05-03)

  • NVCom / GenTL producer / API
    • Added device serial number to device discovery
  • Image set reception
    • Automatic reconnection for TCP (defaults to on)
    • Echo-reply based connection state assurance for UDP
  • API
    • Added callbacks for connection state changes (UDP and TCP)
    • saveParameter[s] function for persistently saving parameters
    • Parameter transactions
      • Ability to block to wait for immediate side effects
      • Stability improvements for threaded operation
  • Examples
    • New multi-platform example for Aurora (formerly MIL)

10.6.0 (2023-11-28)

  • GenTL producer
    • Standard feature support added for:
      • Changing ROI size and position
      • Selecting external/software trigger input
      • Frame rate
    • Custom feature support added for:
      • Stereo processing parameters of Nerian devices
      • Control of internal pattern projector (Ruby)
  • API
    • Pre-built binaries for Python 3.12 for Windows release
    • Changed default value of createPointMap() and createZMap() parameter minDisparity from 1 to 0 for better consistency
    • Fixed / amended get/setTriggerInputMode (C++, Python)
    • Parameter getter functions are now (logical) const (C++)
  • NVCom
    • Improved accuracy of frame rate display
    • Additional firewall exceptions for Windows installer

10.5.0 (2023-05-03)

  • Added support for parameter transactions

10.4.2 (2023-03-20)

  • API: fixed issue with remote parameter write lock

10.4.1 (2023-03-16)

  • API: fixed potential issue obtaining remote parameter enumeration

10.4.0 (2023-03-10)

  • GenTL producer
    • Exposure, Gain and Balance (if applicable) modifiable via features
    • Point cloud generation can be toggled via ComponentEnable[Range]
    • New multi-part stream layout, capable of extra channel (Ruby)
    • Custom IntensitySource feature to select primary camera (Ruby)
    • FeatureInvalidate events for remotely changed features
    • Stability fixes and updated Halcon example

10.3.0 (2022-12-19)

  • Fixed parameter server reconnection (Windows clients)
  • Improved PCL example
  • Added version number to libvisiontransfer headers
  • Enabled SSE2 for Windows builds
  • NVCom: reduced 3D visualization jerkiness in cases of slow rendering
  • NVCom: added capture options for Ruby color images

10.2.0 (2022-08-25)

  • Added new software trigger functionality
  • Added automatic re-connection to parameter API
  • Added missing VCOMP dll file to Windows installer
  • Added standard deviation display to NVCom
  • Updated C++ parameter example program

10.1.0 (2022-08-01)

  • NVCom
    • Improved legibility for 3D coordinate tooltip when zoomed out
  • API (Python)
    • Extended device parameter access, with new example script
    • Improved documentation
  • Improved compatibility with Ruby

10.0.0 (2022-06-30)

  • New parameter protocol
    • Significant extension of changeable parameters
    • Parameter changes are immediately reflected in SceneScan / Scarlet web-interface
    • No API changes required
    • Requires SceneScan firmware > 9.0.0 or Scarlet firmware >= 3.0.0
  • Windows: binary packages for all current Python versions
  • Build fix for Ubuntu 22.04
  • Stability improvements

9.0.5 (2022-03-07)

  • GenTL Producer
    • Compatibility fixes for Matrox software

9.0.4 (2022-03-02)

  • NVCom
    • Fixed send order for input images for windows version
  • GenTL Producer
    • Minor fix to buffer purpose IDs

9.0.3 (2022-02-23)

  • NVCom
    • Support for sending color input images
    • Flow control for sending input images
  • API
    • Fixed wrong timestamps in IMU data
    • Stability improvements for TCP
    • Example program for sending input images
  • GenTL Producer
    • Support for GenTL 1.6
    • Fixes to Scan3D parameters

9.0.2 (2022-01-05)

  • NVCom
    • Fixed sending of input images
  • API
    • Stability fix to network protocol
    • Support for copy and pickle in python API
    • Build fix for some GCC versions
    • Support for larger maximum disparity in 3D reconstruction

9.0.1 (2021-08-13)

  • API
    • Fixed potential crash on image resolution change
    • Better handling of protocol exceptions
  • NVcom
    • Fixed point cloud being displayed upside-down
    • Fixed point-cloud display error if left image is not available
    • Several minor bugfixes

9.0.0 (2021-08-10)

  • API
    • Support for Open3D
    • New function for converting disparity to depth map
  • NVCom
    • Live 3D display
    • Automatic color range adjustment
    • More versatile capture options
    • 12 bit to 16 bit conversion for capturing

8.3.0 (2020-12-03)

  • Improved support for Scarlet
  • API
    • Renamed SceneScanParameters to DeviceParameters
    • Improved data transmission for unreliable networks
    • Fixed possible crash with std::bad_alloc exception

8.2.1 (2020-09-16)

  • API
    • Added new trigger mode parameters: constant on/off
    • Bugfixes to c++ examples

8.2.0 (2020-08-19)

  • API
    • Transferring of exposure time with each image set
    • Transferring of last sync-pulse timestamp with each image set

8.1.1 (2020-08-07)

  • Fixed bug in NVCom that prevented capturing of frames in some configurations

8.1.0 (2020-07-29)

  • Support for 1 to 3 images in result set
  • ImagePair renamed to ImageSet
  • Improved error handling for GenTL producer

8.0.0 (2020-07-01)

  • New python API
  • Major network protocol changes (not backwards compatible)

7.2.1 (2020-04-14)

  • Increased number of configurable pulse widths to 8

7.2.0 (2020-02-20)

  • API
    • Support for new trigger cycling and inversion parameters
    • Support for 3D reprojection of disparity maps with odd image sizes

7.1.0 (2019-11-20)

  • NVCom
    • Live device status and health field in device list
    • "Configure" button to open selected device in browser
  • GenTL Producer
    • Better compliance; reporting of more Scan3d parameters
  • API
    • Added subpixel ROI settings to parameter API
    • New DataChannel API for miscellaneous sensors; integration of Inertial Motion Unit [not on current SceneScan]
    • Modified function names 'getSaveAutoRecalibration' and 'getSaveAutoRecalibration' to remove typos
    • Clarifications in API documentation / example code
    • All SceneScan network port definitions centralized into libvisiontransfer/internalinformation.h
    • Fix for processes with many open file descriptors (Linux)
    • Fixed device enumeration (Windows)
    • Fixed Debug profile build (Windows)
    • Fixed forward compatibility of parameter API (whitelisting and warnings, but no exceptions for unknown parameters)

7.0.0 (2019-08-14)

  • Support for image resolutions up to 6 megapixels (requires SceneScan firmware >= 4.0.0)
  • GenTL Producer improvements:
    • Fixed ComponentSelector influence on PixelFormat, ComponentEnable/ID
    • Added Scan3d features including camera baseline and focal length
    • Clamping non-finite values to a large value (Scan3dInvalidDataValue) as recommended by GenICam SFNC
  • Added edge dependent SGM penalty parameters to parameter protocol ( requires SceneScan firmware >= 4.0.0)
  • Added support for upcoming Karmin3 camera
  • HALCON example: RGB images correctly shown

6.5.0 (2019-06-19)

  • Network protocol changes (not backward compatible to older versions)
  • New API for parameter enumeration
  • Fixed potential buffer overflow in network protocol
  • Fixed interface for sending raw transfers
  • Parameter API: Added support for multiple speckle filter iterations

6.4.0 (2019-02-04)

  • Added new example for Matrox MIL
  • Code signing for all Windows executables
  • Minor build fixes

6.3.0 (2019-01-15)

  • New protocol for reading and writing parameters
  • Moved libvisiontransfer to its own namespace
  • Fixed binary compatibility for Windows debug builds

6.2.2 (2018-11-13)

  • Added debug libraries to Windows binary release

6.2.1 (2018-11-30)

  • Added support for colored PCL point clouds
  • Fixed reception of large RGB images

6.2.0 (2018-11-15)

  • Added support for writing PLY files with 12 bit input images
  • Added support for writing binary PLY files to NVCom
  • Fixed possible error message regarding buffer sizes when establishing a new connection.
  • Fixed possible projection of invalid points when writing PLY files

6.1.1 (2018-08-17)

  • Fixed crash in NVCom when writing images in non-graphical mode

6.1.0 (2018-08-08)

  • Added conversion to PCL point clouds to Reconstruct3D
  • Added conversion to OpenCV images to ImagePair
  • Added examples for PCL and OpenCV conversion
  • Minor user interface improvements to NVCom

6.0.2 (2018-07-30)

  • Fixed erroneous projection of single points in Reconstruct3D and for NVCom's coordinate display

6.0.1 (2018-07-15)

  • Compatibility fixes to GenTL producer for Halcon 18.05

6.0.0 (2018-06-07)

  • New network protocol (not backwards compatible; requires firmware >= 2.0.0)
  • Dropped support for SP1
  • Discovery of devices on the local network
  • Re-transmission of UPD packets in case of packet loss
  • Added example for server application with libvisiontransfer
  • Added dropped frames display to NVCom
  • Compatibility improvements to GenTL producer

5.2.0 (2018-03-29)

  • NVCom improvements:
    • New tool for displaying 3D coordinates
    • Added support for sending 12-bit image data
    • Fixed possible crash in full screen mode
  • libvisiontransfer improvements:
    • Fixed infinite timeouts in ImageTransfer
    • Added deep copy functionality for ImagePair
  • GenTL producer
    • Fixed path installation on windows to be compatible with other GentL producers

5.1.0 (2018-02-01)

  • Added functionality for time stamp recording in NVCom
  • Improved reliability of input image transmission in NVCom
  • Added support for binary PLY files
  • Fixed destruction of ImagePair while writing PLY files
  • TCP streams no longer require a client port

5.0.1 (2017-10-18)

  • Fixed synchronization issue in AsyncTransfer
  • Fixed PGM output on Windows for ImagePair
  • Fixed image data modifications during PGM output

5.0.0 (2017-09-29)

  • Added support for SceneScan
  • Added support for Jumbo Frames
  • Support for 12-bit image data
  • Renamed to Vision Software Release
  • Renamed SpCom to NVCom
  • Fixed possible display stall bug in NVCom

4.1.5 (2017-05-07)

  • Added application icon to SpCom
  • Compatibility fixes to GenTL producer
  • New sample data for GenTL producer test builds

4.1.4 (2017-04-12)

  • Added example program for MATLAB
  • Fixed reading / writing of paths with non-ASCII characters with SpCom on Windows
  • Allow recording of more than 10,000 frames in SpCom

4.1.3 (2017-03-30)

  • Compatibility fixes to GenTL producer. Now compatible with MATLAB

4.1.2 (2017-03-27)

  • Fixed possible image reception stall when reconfiguring SP1
  • Removed restrictions to image size when compiling with SSE or AVX2

4.1.1 (2017-03-09)

  • Fixed critical bug that causes image reception problems on Windows 10

4.1.0 (2017-02-15)

  • Fixed erroneous subpixel decoding of disparity maps
  • GenTL producer now supports multi-part data streams
  • GenTL producer now has a dedicated virtual device for right camera images
  • Added an example for HALCON 13
  • Both HALCON examples now visualize the 3D point cloud
  • SpCom build fix for older CMake versions

4.0.0 (2016-01-17)

  • New network protocol for SP1 firmware 3.0.0
  • Support for variable disparity range
  • Added zoom and fullscreen support to SpCom
  • Fixed display stall bug in SpCom
  • Build fixes for ARM

3.0.1 (2016-10-13)

  • Fixed build problem for some Linux systems

3.0.0 (2016-10-07)

  • New protocol with lower performance overhead
  • Support for larger image resolutions
  • Qt GUI for SpCom
  • SpCom supports saving of 3D point clouds
  • New color coding scheme for SpCom
  • Zoom functionality for SpCom

2.1.7 (2016-07-08)

  • Compatibility fix for non-AVX CPUs for binary windows builds

2.1.6 (2016-05-18)

  • Fixed possible receive buffer overflow in libvisiontransfer
  • Build-fix for cross compilation of libvisiontransfer

2.1.5 (2016-03-17)

  • Improved parallelization for AsyncTransfer in libvisiontransfer
  • Fixed possible duplicate write of captured frames in spcom
  • Fixed possible problem with captured file numbering in spcom

2.1.4 (2016-03-11)

  • Fixed network exceptions on Windows 10
  • Lazy initialization of receive thread in libvisiontransfer

2.1.3 (2016-03-07)

  • Improved installation procedure for Windows and Linux

2.1.2 (2016-02-12)

  • Improved parallelism for libvisiontransfer
  • Fixed inaccurate frame rate display of spcom for Windows builds

2.1.1 (2016-01-12)

  • Fix for image widths that are not a multiple of 64

2.1.0 (2015-12-08)

  • Added a GenICam GenTL producer that encapsulates libvisiontransfer
  • Minor compilation fixes

2.0.0 (2015-11-23)

  • Major clean-up and simplification of all interfaces
  • Image pairs are now stored in the new class ImagePair
  • Transmission / reception of q-Matrix, timestamp and sequence number
  • Right image can now have 8-bit color depth
  • Support for image reception and transmission on the same connection
  • Several network optimizations
  • Internal refactoring
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