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File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: Lire 0.7

Notes:
Lire 0.7 is a major release fixing a lot of bugs and introducing several 
new features including new descriptor, a simplified way to use 
descriptors by introducing new generic searchers and indexers as well as 
an generalized interface for image descriptors. There are also several 
improvements in indexing and search speed (especially in 
autocolorcorrelogram). Furthermore retrieval performance was optimized 
based on the Wang 1000 data set. If you use Lire 0.7 to update an 
existing version, please make sure that your indices are created newly 
from scratch. All new features have also found their way into LireDemo, 
which now also supports multi-threaded indexing.

Thanks for comments, code and general comments go again to Savvas 
Chatzichristofis, Rodrigo Carvalho Rezende, Marko Keuschnig, Christian 
Penz, Oge Marques, Anna-Maria Pasterk and Christoph Kofler. 



Changes:
2008-10-23
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General:
  - Release 0.7
  
2008-09-25
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Descriptors:
  - Changed AutoColorCorrelogram to be a lot faster
  - Changed AutoColorCorrelogram defaults to faster mode
   
2008-09-25
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Descriptors:
  - Fixed bug in Autocolorcorrelogram based on creomments of
    Rodrigo Carvalho Rezende, rcrezende <at> gmail.com

2008-09-23
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Descriptors:
  - Fixed bug in Autocolorcorrelogram based on comments of
    Rodrigo Carvalho Rezende, rcrezende <at> gmail.com
  - Changed normalization in Autocolorcorrelogram based on
    comments of Rodrigo Carvalho Rezende
  - Changed dissimilarity of AutoColorCorrelogram to Tanimoto
  - Created a way to compute local feature histograms.
  - Added SIFT

2008-09-23
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General:
  - Fixed Bug in ChainedDocumentBuilder (With single entry chain no
    doc was generated)

Descriptors:
  - Changed default params of the SimpleColorHistogram based on MAP
    tests on the Wang 1000 data set.
  - Changed default params of ColorLayout in caliph-emir-cbir.jar

Tests:
  - Added simple benchmarking based on the Wang data set 

2008-09-18
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Descriptors:
  - Added JCD, a joint descriptor for CEDD and FCTH (from Savvas)

2008-09-15
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General:
  - Added non caching option to FastMap (use for more than 3000 objects to map)
  - Fixed some smaller bugs based on comments of Anna-Maria Pasterk and Christoph Kofler 

2008-08-27
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Descriptors
  - Made empty constructors fro ScalableColorImpl and ColorLayoutImpl
    public for Lire (in updated cbir-jar lib)
  - Added HMMD color space to SimpleColorHistogram as well as an appropriate
    quantization.
  - Added wrappers for ScalableColor, EdgeHistogram and ColorLayout, which
    implement the LireFeature interface.

2008-08-14
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CBIR:
  - Updated CEDD descriptor based on code patch of Savvas Chatzichristofis
  - Updated FCTH descriptor based on code patch of Savvas Chatzichristofis

2008-08-13
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General:
  - Added option to FastMap for iterative mapping

2008-07-11
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General:
  - Made AutoColorCorrelogram a "LireFeature"
  
2008-07-04
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CBIR:
  - Added FCTH implementation of Savvas Chatzichristofis
  - Added Gabor feature based on the code of Marko Keuschnig &
    Christian Penz to imageanalysis