File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.5
Notes: Noteable features of this release of RAVL is the improved documentation, particularly for the IO system, the many new classes and the addition of a contrib package for system specific code. At the moment the contrib package includes support for image capture using video4linux devices and matrox's meteor 1 frame grabber.
Changes: - Many additions and updates to the documentation - Many new example programs - Fixes to CxxDoc to improve parsing - Many many bug fixes! - In DirectoryC, . and .. are no long included in directory listings. - VPlay application added for viewing video streams. - Progressive Probabilistic Hough Transform, for line finding added. - Connected components routine added. - Improved compatibility with Visual C++ (But still far from complete.) - Decision-Tree's added to Logic module. - Dynamic Arrays DArrayC, essentially a list of array fragments. - Many fixes and improvements to QMake. - New experimental utility to generate ordinary makefiles, added by Kieron Messer - Automatic library dependancy generation works now - Pattern Recognition port started. - optsave and optload no longer included in argument list generated by OptionC by default. - Image filtering added along with some MMX accelerated functions. - Added DPDisplay library to 'Save' images to a GUI window. - Support for YUV422 pixel type. - Blue screen segmentation for images. - Voxel carving code added. - Support for gcc 2.96 and some work towards gcc 3.x, but use of either is still not recomended. - Contrib section added to CVS tree.
