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<title>Release notes</title>
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<current>
New Features:
- Object Detection Tools:
- Added scan_fhog_pyramid, a tool for creating Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG)
based object detectors.
- Added get_frontal_face_detector(), a HOG based face detector.
- Added an option to include "ignore/don't care" truth boxes to the
structural_object_detection_trainer. This allows a user to tell the trainer that
they don't care if certain objects are detected or not detected.
- Image Processing Tools:
- Added extract_image_chips()
- Added a version of draw_rectangle() for drawing on images.
- The spatial filtering routines now support even sized filters.
- Added flip_image_dataset_left_right(), upsample_image_dataset(), and
rotate_image_dataset().
- Machine Learning Tools:
- Added a nuclear norm regularization option to the structural SVM solver.
- Added the option to learn only non-negative weights to the
svm_multiclass_linear_trainer.
- Speed Improvements:
- The svm_multiclass_linear_trainer, one_vs_one_trainer, and one_vs_all_trainer
objects are now multithreaded. This also means you have to #include
dlib/svm_threaded.h instead of dlib/svm.h to use these tools.
- A number of image processing tools can now optionally use SSE and AVX instructions
and are therefore considerably faster. In particular, the following tools have been
accelerated: extract_fhog_features, resize_image, pyramid_down, pyramid_up,
spatially_filter_image_separable, and spatially_filter_image.
- Added an inv() routine that inverts point transformation functions.
- Added a sign() routine for matrix objects.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The spatial image filtering functions have the following changes:
- They no longer zero the image borders when you set the add_to parameter to true.
- The spatially_filter_image_separable_down() routine now only allows grayscale
output images.
- Changed the default parameters of the test_box_overlap object. Now it defaults to
using exactly the PASCAL VOC match criterion.
- To use the svm_multiclass_linear_trainer, one_vs_one_trainer, or one_vs_all_trainer
objects you now have to #include dlib/svm_threaded.h instead of dlib/svm.h.
- pyramid_up() no longer has a levels option.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a compile time bug that could occur when wide character strings were
serialized.
- Fixed a compile time bug occurring in gcc 4.7.1 on SUSE Linux. Thanks to Volker
Härtel for finding this.
- Fixed compile time errors that occurred when using gcc on cygwin.
- Fixed a compile time bug that could occur when serializing mlp objects.
- Fixed a bug in the bigint object that caused division to sometimes produce incorrect
results.
- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused load_image_dataset() to erroneously report that
the dataset file could not be found.
- Fixed a bug in the structural_object_detection_trainer that caused it to erroneously
throw a impossible_labeling_error exception in certain rare cases.
- Updated find_max_factor_graph_nmplp() to use the improved version of the algorithm
from the 2011 paper Introduction to dual decomposition for inference by David Sontag,
Amir Globerson, and Tommi Jaakkola. The original algorithm presented in their 2008
paper had an error that negatively effected its convergence. Thanks to James Gunning
for pointing this out.
Other:
- Fixed many compiler warnings in gcc 4.8.
- Made many of the mat() converters bind the resulting matrix expressions into BLAS
functions.
- libpng and libjpeg are now included in the dlib/external folder to enable easy static
linking to these libraries on platforms that typically don't have them (e.g. Windows).
Moreover, dlib's cmake files will automatically perform this static linking when no
copy of these libraries is found on the system.
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<old name="18.5" date="Oct 22, 2013">
New Features:
- Added routines for performing BFGS and L-BFGS optimization with box constraints.
See the new find_min_box_constrained() and find_max_box_constrained() routines.
- Added vector_normalizer_frobmetric. This is a tool for learning a
Mahalanobis distance metric.
- The user can now set different loss values for false alarming vs. getting a
correct detection when using the structural_sequence_segmentation_trainer.
- Added an overload of clamp() that lets you use matrix valued lower/upper bounds.
- New image processing tools:
- Added the scan_image_custom object, split_array(), and add_image_left_right_flips().
- Added extract_fhog_features(), this is a function for computing
Felzenszwalb's 31 channel HOG image representation.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Refactored the image pyramid code. Now there is just one templated object called
pyramid_down and you give it the downsampling amount as a template argument. To make
old code work with this change use the following substitutions:
change pyramid_down to pyramid_down&lt;2&gt;
change pyramid_down_3_2 to pyramid_down&lt;3&gt;
change pyramid_down_4_3 to pyramid_down&lt;4&gt;
change pyramid_down_5_4 to pyramid_down&lt;5&gt;
Bug fixes:
Other:
- Made the structural SVM solver slightly faster.
- Moved the python C++ utility headers from tools/python/src into dlib/python.
- The PNG loader is now able to load grayscale images with an alpha channel.
- Removed checks that prevented users from using references to functions with the
optimization code and forced the use of function pointers. This was to avoid
triggering a bug in gcc 4.0. Since that compiler is no longer officially supported
by dlib I've removed these checks to increase usability.
- Made resize_image() use bilinear interpolation by default and also added a special
version of it that is optimized for this case.
- Dlib's cmake files will now automatically link to the Intel MKL on MS Windows
platforms if the MKL is installed.
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<old name="18.4" date="Aug 14, 2013">
New Features:
- Added Python interfaces to dlib's structural support vector machine solver and
Hungarian algorithm implementation.
- Added running_cross_covariance
- Added order_by_descending_distance()
- Added is_finite()
- Added the csv IO manipulator that lets you print a matrix in comma separated value
format.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the object detector testing functions to output average precision instead of
mean average precision.
- Added an option to weight the features from a hashed_feature_image relative to the
number of times they occur in an image. I also made it the default behavior to use
this relative weighting and changed the serialization format to accommodate this.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed typo in learn_platt_scaling(). The method wasn't using the exact prior
suggested by Platt's paper.
- Fixed a bug in running_scalar_covariance that caused the covariance() and
correlation() methods to output the wrong answer if the covariance was negative.
Other:
- Gave the image_window the ability to tie the mouse and keyboard events together such
that it is possible for a user to listen for both simultaneously.
- A number of changes were made to the structural_svm_problem's code which make it
significantly faster in some cases.
- Added Steven Van Ingelgem's patch to the HTTP server which makes operations on HTTP
headers case-insensitive.
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<old name="18.3" date="June 21, 2013">
New Features:
- Machine Learning:
- Added the svr_linear_trainer, a tool for solving large scale support vector
regression problems.
- Added a tool for working with BIO and BILOU style sequence taggers/segmenters.
This is the new sequence_segmenter object and its associated
structural_sequence_segmentation_trainer object.
- Added a python interface to some of the machine learning tools. These
include the svm_c_trainer, svm_c_linear_trainer, svm_rank_trainer, and
structural_sequence_segmentation_trainer objects as well as the cca()
routine.
- Added point_transform_projective and find_projective_transform().
- Added a function for numerically integrating arbitrary functions, this is the
new integrate_function_adapt_simpson() routine which was contributed by
Steve Taylor
- Added jet(), a routine for coloring images with the jet color scheme.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in hysteresis_threshold() that caused it to produce incorrect
outputs in some cases.
- Fixed a segmentation fault in the eigenvalue_decomposition object which
could occur when NaN valued inputs were given.
Other:
- Made image saving routines work on matrix objects in addition to array2d objects.
- The machine learning page now contains a flow chart to help new users
select a machine learning tool appropriate for their task.
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<old name="18.2" date="May 30, 2013">
New Features:
- Object Detection Tools:
- Added another image scanning tool similar to scan_image_pyramid. This
is the new scan_image_boxes object. It allows a user to easily specify
an arbitrary set of object boxes which should be checked by an object
detector rather than scanning a fixed sized window over the image as is
done by the scan_image_pyramid tool. This allows more flexible scanning
strategies. For example, it is now possible to use the selective search
method implemented by the new find_candidate_object_locations() routine.
- Added the binned_vector_feature_image.
- Upgraded the object_detector so that you can use the adjust_threshold
argument for all versions of the operator() method.
- Added remove_unobtainable_rectangles()
- Hashing Tools:
- Added a set of new locality sensitive hashing functions meant for use
with larger vectors and higher bit sizes than the current LSH tools.
These are the new hash_similar_angles_xxx objects.
- Added find_k_nearest_neighbors_lsh() and hash_samples()
- Added create_max_margin_projection_hash()
- New Matrix Routines: linpiece(), fft(), and ifft()
- Added numeric constants and additional statistics to the running_stats
object. This code was contributed by Steve Taylor.
- Added the image_window::get_next_keypress() routine. This tool allows a
user to easily find out which keyboard key the user is pressing.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the object_detector interface slightly. In particular, it no
longer adds the adjust_threshold argument to the output scores.
- The object detector testing functions now output mean average precision in
addition to precision and recall.
- Changed how dlib does serialization in a number of ways:
- The running_stats and scan_image_pyramid objects have had their
serialization format changed in a way that breaks backwards
compatibility. This means serialized versions of these objects can't be
loaded by the new version of dlib.
- Changed the format dlib uses when it serializes floating point values.
Previously, we used an ASCII based format. Dlib now uses a much more
efficient binary format. However, the deserialization routines have
been made backwards compatible with the previous format. So dlib can
still deserialize older data but older software won't be able to read
the new format.
- Changed the serialization formats for the matrix and array2d objects so
that either object can be deserialized into the other. This was done in a
way that is backwards compatible with previous versions of dlib. That is,
we can still load data serialized by previous dlib versions. However,
older versions of dlib can't load the new serialization format.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in save_dng() that happened sometimes when saving images with
unsigned char pixels.
- The test_ranking_function() and cross_validate_ranking_trainer() routines
computed incorrect MAP scores when the learned function output a constant
value for all samples. This has been fixed.
Other:
- Gave load_image_dataset() the ability to skip images that don't have any
ground truth boxes.
- Changed average_precision() to use interpolated precision. So now it uses
the same metric as the one used by the Pascal VOC challenge.
- Upgraded the dng image format so it can natively store floating point
pixel types without any information loss.
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<old name="18.1" date="Mar 25, 2013">
New Features:
- Added svd_fast(), a routine for computing a singular value decomposition of very
large matrices.
- Added cca(), a routine for doing canonical correlation analysis on very large
and high-dimensional datasets.
- Added tools for creating parallel for loops, see parallel_for().
- Added some features to the image display widgets to let the user easily
get information about where the user is clicking. This is the new
get_next_double_click() routine.
- Added an operator>> for matrix objects which allows you to read in ASCII
matrices using the format used by operator&lt;&lt;.
- Added serialization support for std::vector&lt;bool&gt;.
- Added the following new minor objects and routines: average_precision(),
make_sparse_vector_inplace(), orthogonalize(), count_bits(), draw_surf_points(),
hamming_distance(), cosine_distance, and negative_dot_product_distance.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed ranking evaluation functions to return the mean average precision
in addition to just raw ranking accuracy. This changes their return types
from double to matrix&lt;double,1,2&gt;.
- Generalized segment_image() so it works on any pixel type or array of
vectors. I also changed its interface slightly. In particular, I removed
the min_diff parameter and replaced it with an explicit min_size parameter.
- Changed how the SURF descriptor is computed slightly to improve its
accuracy. The interface to the user has not been changed, however, the
number and position of detected SURF points might be different than in
previous dlib versions.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an endianness bug in the PNG I/O functions which occurred when 16bit
grayscale PNGs were used.
- Fixed a bug which could potentially occur when empty std::vector&lt;char&gt; or
std::vector&lt;unsigned char&gt; were serialized.
- There was a bug in the version of draw_line() that draws directly onto an
array2d type image (not the one that draws onto a GUI canvas object). The
bug triggered whenever a perfectly horizontal or vertical line that extended
outside the image was drawn. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug in the Windows implementation of the signaler object, which
was found by Isaac Peterson. The bug caused the program to deadlock if
signal() or broadcast() was called at exactly the same time a
wait_or_timeout() function timed out.
- Fixed a bug in the image_window and image_display GUI tools which caused
them to not redraw overlay lines correctly in certain cases involving
non-default zoom levels.
- Switched randomly_color_image() to use the non-pointer based version of
murmur_hash3() to avoid violation of the strict aliasing rule. In
particular, the previous version didn't work correctly in gcc 4.7.2 when
optimizations were enabled.
- Visual Studio 2012's iostreams library has a bug which caused the
iosockstream to crash on use. This version of dlib has been changed to
avoid triggering this bug.
Other:
- Refactored the Platt scaling code a little. Now there is a function,
learn_platt_scaling(), that allows you to directly call the Platt scaling
code without supplying a trainer object.
- Optimized the oca and structural SVM solvers. They are now a little bit faster
than in previous dlib releases.
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<old name="18.0" date="Feb 04, 2013">
New Features:
- Machine Learning
- Added svm_rank_trainer, an optimized implementation of the SVM-Rank algorithm.
- Added rank_unlabeled_training_samples(), an implementation of the SVM Active
Learning algorithm.
- Added svm_c_linear_dcd_trainer, a warm-startable SVM solver using the dual
coordinate descent algorithm used by liblinear.
- Added the ability to force the last element of a weight vector to 1 to the
following objects: svm_c_linear_trainer, svm_c_linear_dcd_trainer,
svm_rank_trainer, and oca.
- Added the ability to learn non-negative weight vectors to the
structural_sequence_labeling_trainer object.
- Networking
- Added an iosockstream object.
- Added a method to the server object that lets a user set the graceful close timeout
time to something other than the default of 500ms.
- Linear Algebra
- Added the gaussian_randm() function.
- Added the find_affine_transform() function.
- Added the mat() function. It combines the array_to_matrix(), vector_to_matrix(),
pointer_to_column_vector(), and pointer_to_matrix() methods all into one convenient
interface. mat() also works for Armadillo and Eigen matrices.
- Added STL style begin() and end() methods to matrix and matrix_exp.
- Added an overload of sparse_matrix_vector_multiply() that multiplies a dense matrix
with a sparse vector.
- Made toMat() work with the matrix object in addition to array2d style images.
- Graphical User Interface Tools
- Added draw_solid_convex_polygon().
- Added an overload of draw_image() that's useful for drawing images and doing
interpolation at the same time.
- Added the on_view_changed() callback to zoomable_region and scrollable_region widgets.
- Added parse_trees_to_string() and parse_trees_to_string_tagged().
- Added lambda function support to the timeout object.
- Added the vectorstream object.
- Added the parse_xml() routines.
- Added a group name feature to the command line parser. Now it is possible to make
print_options() print related options in named groups.
- Added the following new hashing functions: murmur_hash3_128bit_3(),
murmur_hash3_2(), murmur_hash3_3(), uniform_random_hash(), gaussian_random_hash()
as well as hash() overloads for uint32, uint64, and std::pair.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Made the svm_c_linear_trainer use the risk gap to decide when to stop. This was done
because it is how all the other OCA based SVM tools in dlib decide when to stop.
However, it might cause the outputs to be slightly different in this version of dlib.
- It is now illegal to call unlock() on a mutex when the mutex is not owned by the
calling thread. The most likely reason for doing this was to unlock early in an area
locked by an auto_mutex. Old code that does this can be fixed by calling auto_mutex's
unlock() function instead.
- Removed the structural_assignment_trainer::learns_nonnegative_weights() routine
and moved its functionality into the feature extraction interface used by this object.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in find_max_factor_graph_nmplp() which caused it to not work properly on
some compilers.
- Fixed a bug pointed out by Joel Nelson in the version of md5() that took an istream.
The bug caused the function to crash on strings longer than 56 characters.
Other:
- dlib now has an excellent new logo thanks to Yasser Asmi.
- Added a new documentation page for the various linear algebra tools.
- The following objects were turned into single implementation components:
sockstreambuf, timeout, member_function_pointer, xml_parser, linker,
bound_function_pointer, and timer.
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<old name="17.49" date="Dec 18, 2012">
New Features:
- Machine Learning
- Added the ability to learn non-negative weight vectors to the
structural_assignment_trainer object.
- Added two new graph clustering algorithms: Chinese Whispers and Newman's modularity
clustering.
- Added a number of new graph manipulation tools: sparse_matrix_vector_multiply(),
is_ordered_by_index(), find_neighbor_ranges(), convert_unordered_to_ordered(),
remove_duplicate_edges(), and the ordered_sample_pair object.
- Networking
- Added a set of tools for creating applications using the Bulk Synchronous Parallel
computing model. See the new bsp_ex.cpp example program for an introduction.
- Added a routine that lets a user disable Nagle's algorithm on a TCP connection.
- Added an asynchronous start routine to the server object. This is the new
start_async() method.
- Added the network_address object.
- Added connect_to() to the bridge interface.
- Added find_max_parse_cky(), a method implementing the well known CKY algorithm for
parsing probabilistic context free grammars.
- Added the ability to label parts of objects with the mouse to the image_display
widget.
- Added the ability to put overlay circles and full_object_detections into the
image_window widget.
- Added a stddev() for matrix objects.
- Added operator+() for running_stats and running_scalar_covariance.
- Added an overload of murmur_hash3_128bit() that takes 4 integers instead of a block of
memory.
- Added rand::get_random_64bit_number().
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the image_dataset_metadata XML reading tools to use a map of strings to points
to represent object parts. This change removes the old head point from a box since
this information can now be represented in the parts map.
- The syntax for passing order_by_distance and order_by_index to std::sort() is now
slightly different since these functions are now templates. However, this change
allows them to work on any kind of sample_pair or ordered_sample_pair object.
- The default distance value of a sample_pair is now initialized to 1 instead of
infinity.
Bug fixes:
- Added a patch, contributed by Martin Müllenhaupt, to fix a minor bug in the SQLite
bindings.
- Fixed a typo which would prevent code that called running_stats::max_n() from
compiling.
Other:
- Added a new documentation page for the various graph tools in dlib.
- Added support for Visual Studio 2012.
- Switched the sample_pair object to use double to store its distance value instead of
float.
- Added William Sobel's patch to the web server that improves its flexibility and
security.
- Changed the server object so you don't have to use the server::kernel_1a syntax to
declare it anymore. Now you just say server, server_iostream, or server_http
depending on which one you want.
- Changed the cmd_line_parser so you don't have to use the ::kernel_1a syntax anymore.
Now it is declared like a normal single implementation object.
- Set the default max number of connections a server will accept at a time to 1000
rather than the previous default of infinity.
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<old name="17.48" date="Oct 18, 2012">
New Features:
- Added more overloads of find_max_factor_graph_potts() to make applying it
over a Markov random field of image pixels really simple.
- Added overloads of serialize()/deserialize() so that they can serialize
Google protocol buffer objects.
- Image Processing:
- Added find_points_above_thresh()
- Added max_filter()
- Added scan_image_movable_parts()
- Added sum_filter_assign()
- Added the full_object_detection object.
- Added the ability to model objects with movable parts into the
scan_image_pyramid object. This update also includes all the needed tools
to train movable part models using the structural_object_detection_trainer.
- Machine Learning:
- Added a per node loss option to the structural_svm_graph_labeling_problem's
interface.
- Added Emanuele Cesena's implementation of Sammon's nonlinear dimensionality
reduction method.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- To support movable part models, the serialization format of scan_image_pyramid
objects was modified. This breaks backwards compatibility with the previous
format for scan_image_pyramid objects as well as object_detector instances
that use the scan_image_pyramid.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in auto_threshold_image() that caused it to give bad outputs
when used with very large images.
Other:
- Updated find_max_factor_graph_potts() to correctly say you can use infinite
weights for the factor_value_disagreement() values since the code actually
supports this.
- Made integer serialization about 3 times faster.
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<old name="17.47" date="Jun 15, 2012">
New Features:
- Improvements to linear algebra tools:
- Added the lowerbound() and upperbound() routines for thresholding dense
matrices.
- Refined the tools for working with sparse vectors. In particular,
the following functions were added: min(), max(), make_sparse_vector(),
add(), and subtract(). A number of existing routines were also updated
to work with both sparse and dense vectors so that templated code which
works on both vector types is simpler to write.
- Added the += and -= operators to the set_subm(), set_rowm(), and set_colm()
tools for operating on submatrices.
- Optimization:
- Added a new quadratic program solver, solve_qp4_using_smo(). This new
solver is useful for solving quadratic programs corresponding to
non-negative constrained primal quadratic programs.
- Added an optional non-negativity constraint to the oca optimizer.
- Added the min_cut object. It provides a method to find the minimum weight
cut on a graph.
- Added tools for finding the maximum probability assignment in a Potts
style Markov random field. See the find_max_factor_graph_potts() routine
for details.
- Machine Learning:
- Added structural SVM tools for learning the parameters of a Potts style
Markov random field. See the structural_graph_labeling_trainer and
graph_labeler objects as well as their associated example program for
details.
- Added the ability to learn only non-negative weights to the
svm_c_linear_trainer.
- Improved Integration with OpenCV:
- Updated the cv_image object so it works with cv::Mat as well as IplImage.
- Added the toMat() routine for converting from a dlib style image to an
OpenCV cv::Mat image.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed the dlib::sparse_vector namespace. Everything from this namespace
was moved into the normal dlib:: namespace so that code which works with
both sparse and dense vectors is more cohesive.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in find_max_factor_graph_viterbi() which sometimes occurred when
the model order was larger than the number of variables.
- Fixed a bug which caused a compiler error if you tried to call dot() on two
1x1 matrices which were statically dimensioned.
Other:
- Improved existing documentation: added pictures of the gui widgets,
added documentation of the dlib::bridge protocol, and other minor
usability improvements.
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<old name="17.46" date="Apr 11, 2012">
New Features:
- Image Processing:
- Added the option to make the features generated by poly_image rotationally
invariant.
- Added a set of routines for warping, scaling, and resizing images.
See the new "Scaling and Rotating" section of the image processing
documentation for details.
- Added the heatmap() routine for converting an image into a heatmap.
- Machine Learning
- Updated the sequence labeling trainer to allow the user to set different
loss values for different labels.
- Added the rls object. It is an implementation of the linear recursive
least squares algorithm.
- Added the get_option() routines which slightly simplify option parsing
from the command line and config files.
- Added the 128bit version of Murmur hash.
- Added the kalman_filter and rls_filter objects. These are tools for
performing Kalman filtering and recursive least squares filtering.
- Added the circular_buffer object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The poly_image generates slightly different features in this new release.
Therefore, classifiers trained using the previous version will need to be
retrained if they are switched to the new version of poly_image.
- Changed the xcorr() functions so they take the complex conjugate of the right
hand arguments if they are complex numbers. This way they do a proper
cross-correlation and also mirror the behavior of MATLAB. However, this
breaks backwards compatibility with the previous behavior of xcorr().
- Previously, dlib included two versions of dlib::array. However, to
simplify the user interface, dlib now includes only the contiguous
memory implementation of dlib::array. This change should only affect
you if you wrote code which assumed dlib::array::set_max_size() only
allocated a small amount of RAM. The new behavior is similar to the
std::vector::reserve() routine. That is, dlib::array::set_max_size()
will allocate the requested amount of memory immediately.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug which caused certain matrix expressions to not compile
when the BLAS bindings were enabled. In particular, expressions which
involved a 1x1 matrix sometimes didn't compile.
Other:
- Made the matrix routines min(), max(), sum() and mean() work with
complex numbers.
- Turned the array object into a single implementation object. Now arrays
can be created using the normal array&lt;type&gt; obj; syntax. Additionally,
all extensions were merged into the array object.
- Added an example program which better documents how to create training
data for the object detection tools as well as how this data can be used.
See the train_object_detector.cpp example for details.
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<old name="17.45" date="Jan 29, 2012">
New Features:
- Added tools for timing blocks of code
- Machine Learning
- Added a set of tools for learning to solve the assignment problem.
See the structural_assignment_trainer and its associated example
program for an introduction.
- Added random projection based locality sensitive hashing tools.
- Added tools to simplify the creation of scan_image_pyramid objects.
See the object_detector_ex.cpp example program for details.
- Image Processing
- Added sum_filter() and spatially_filter_image_separable_down()
- New feature extractors: poly_image, nearest_neighbor_feature_image, and
fine_hog_image
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the serialization format for rand objects.
- Changed the order of arguments for the sequence_labeler's constructor.
- Object Detection Changes
- Some parts of the object detection tools have been refactored. In particular,
the interfaces of the scan_image_pyramid and structural_object_detection_trainer
have been changed slightly to improve usability.
- Made the test_box_overlap a little more flexible. This change breaks
backwards compatibility with the previous version though.
- The hashed_feature_image object has been made more general. It now
uses a user supplied hashing function rather than its own hashing
implementation.
- Removed constness from the operator() member functions of the
object_detector.
- Fixed improper normalization in the gaussian() functions. The
normalization constant was being computed incorrectly.
- Sequence labeling feature extractors must now define a sequence_type
typedef instead of sample_type. This change allows the user to use any
type of sequence, not just std::vector objects.
Bug fixes:
- Changed the add_probability() method of joint_probability_table so
it does a saturating add rather than a normal add. This ensures the
probability value stays exactly &lt;= 1. Previously, floating point
rounding error could cause it to be slightly above 1 and would therefore
cause some asserts to misfire during debugging mode.
- The object_detector had code in it which limited the number of outputs
to 100 rectangles. This has been removed.
- Fixed improper normalization in the gaussian() functions. The
normalization constant was being computed incorrectly.
Other:
- dlib::rand can now generate Gaussian random numbers.
- The structural_object_detection_trainer will now automatically setup
appropriate non-max suppression parameters if the user doesn't supply them.
- The structural_object_detection_trainer has been optimized and now runs
significantly faster than in previous dlib releases.
- The tools folder containing htmlify, imglab, and mltool is now included
in the dlib release archive files. Previously, these tools were only
available directly from source control.
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<old name="17.44" date="Nov 21, 2011">
New Features:
- Machine Learning
- Added the histogram intersection kernel for sparse and dense vectors.
- Added a set of tools to allow a user to easily learn to do sequence
labeling using dlib's structural SVM implementation. See the new
sequence_labeler object and its associated example program for an
introduction.
- Image processing:
- Added segment_image()
- Added randomly_color_image()
- Added the border_enumerator
- Added the disjoint_subsets object, it is an implementation of the
union-find algorithm/disjoint-set data structure.
- Added new matrix routines: conv(), conv_same(), conv_valid(), xcorr(),
xcorr_same(), xcorr_valid(), and flip().
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed find_max_factor_graph_viterbi() so you can use run-time
defined order and num_states parameters.
Bug fixes:
- The last dlib release added a max_iterations parameter to the
svm_c_linear_trainer and svm_c_ekm_trainer objects. However,
there was a bug which made them only do at most 16 iterations,
which is too few to solve many problems. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug in is_const_type. It didn't work for reference types.
- Fixed a bug in the SQLite binding routine statement::get_column_as_text().
It didn't work correctly if the column contained a NULL.
- Fixed a bug in find_max_factor_graph_viterbi() which occurred when a
zero order model had negative factor values.
Other:
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<old name="17.43" date="Oct 21, 2011">
New Features:
- Two new routines for performing MAP inference in factor graphs:
- For chain-structured graphs: find_max_factor_graph_viterbi()
- For general graphs: find_max_factor_graph_nmplp()
- Image Processing
- Added more tools for creating image pyramids. See pyramid_down_5_4,
pyramid_down_4_3, and pyramid_down_3_2.
- Added more image filtering and morphology functions.
- Added a set of tools for creating sliding window classifiers:
- Added the scan_image() routine. It is a tool for sliding a set of
rectangles over an image space and finding the locations where the sum
of pixels in the rectangles exceeds a threshold. Also added
scan_image_pyramid, which is a tool for running scan_image() over an
image pyramid.
- Added the structural_object_detection_trainer. This is a tool which
formulates the sliding window classifier learning problem as an
instance of structural SVM learning.
- Added a variety of supporting tools and two object detection example
programs.
- Added the following functions for computing statistics on vectors:
mean_sign_agreement(), correlation(), covariance(), r_squared(),
and mean_squared_error()
- Added a C++ wrapper for SQLite (see the new database and statement objects)
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the interface to the ridge regression trainer objects so that they
report the entire set of leave-one-out prediction values rather than a
summary statistic like mean squared error.
- Changed the serialization routine for bgr_pixels to store the pixels in BGR
order rather than RGB.
- Changed the interface for the spatially_filter_image() routine to take the
filter as a matrix rather than C-array. Also, now it won't force signed pixel
values to 0 if they go negative.
- Changed the test_regression_function() and cross_validate_regression_trainer()
routines so they return both the MSE and R-squared values rather than just the
MSE.
- Changed suppress_non_maximum_edges() to use the L2 norm instead of L1 norm
for measuring the strength of an edge since this produces a slightly better
result.
Bug fixes:
- The image_display didn't display overlay rectangles quite right. If you zoomed
in you could see that some of the pixels which are inside the rectangle were
outside the overlay. Specifically, the right column and bottom row was outside
the overlay rectangle. This has been fixed. Now all pixels which are supposed
to be part of a rectangle are drawn as being inside the overlay rectangle.
- Fixed a bug pointed out by Martin Müllenhaupt which caused the windows socket
code to not compile when used with the mingw-cross-env project.
- Fixed a bug in the png_loader. If you loaded an image with an alpha channel
into something without an alpha channel there were uninitialized values being
alpha blended into the image.
- Fixed a bug in the cpp_tokenizer that only shows up on newer versions of gcc.
It wasn't tokenizing double quoted strings right.
- Fixed a bug in spatially_filter_image() which showed up when using non-square
filters. The bug would cause the edges of the output image to be incorrect.
- Fixed a bug in the matrix class. Expressions of the form mat *= mat(0) would
evaluate incorrectly because the *= operator took the right hand side by reference
and thus experienced an aliasing problem. The other op= operators had similar
problems and have also been fixed.
- Fixed a bug pointed out by Justin Solomon which could cause the svr_trainer and
svm_c_trainer to produce incorrect results in certain unusual cases.
Other:
- Added a more complete set of methods for converting between image space and
the downsampled hog grid used by hog_image. Now you can convert from image
to hog in addition to hog to image.
- Made the integral_image more general by making it templated on the type of
scalar used to store the sums.
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<old name="17.42" date="Jun 24, 2011">
New Features:
- Added the check_sub_option() method to the command line parser check
object.
- Added match_endings to the dir_nav utils.
- Added a set_current_dir() function.
- Added the distance_to_rect_edge() routine.
- Added support for user drawn rectangle overlays and selectable overlays
to the image_display widget.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the image_display widget. If you switched it between
images of a different size while any kind of zoom was in effect
it could cause a segmentation fault.
Other:
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<old name="17.41" date="Jun 12, 2011">
New Features:
- You can now add tasks to a thread_pool by value, using the new
add_task_by_value() method.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug which caused multiply defined symbol errors during linking
if the PNG saving routine was #included.
Other:
- Optimized the threaded and distributed structural svm solvers for the
case where there are many data samples and the separation oracle is
quick to evaluate.
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<old name="17.40" date="Jun 05, 2011">
New Features:
- Added a function for saving to the PNG image format.
- Added Austin Appleby's excellent MurmurHash3 hashing code and setup some
additional convenience functions. These functions are murmur_hash3() and
various overloads of hash().
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Made get_pixel_intensity() more efficient. However, the value returned
is slightly different than it used to be for RGB pixel types.
Bug fixes:
- Setup proper error handling for libpng in the png_loader. Now if the PNG
file is corrupted in the middle it won't just print a message and abort
the program.
- Fixed a bug in assign_pixel_intensity() that happened when the target pixel
was an RGB pixel with an alpha channel.
Other:
- Added a Frequently Asked Questions page
- Changed the array2d object so you don't have to say array2d&lt;type&gt;::kernel_1a
anymore to declare it. Now you just say array2d&lt;type&gt;.
</old>
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<old name="17.39" date="May 22, 2011">
New Features:
- Added tools for distributing the work involved in solving a structured
SVM problem over many computers and CPUs.
- Added the bridge. It allows a dlib::pipe to be used for networked
communication.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed the DLIB_REVISION macro and replaced it with DLIB_MAJOR_VERSION and
DLIB_MINOR_VERSION.
Bug fixes:
Other:
- dlib's version control system has switched from Subversion to Mercurial.
</old>
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<old name="17.38" date="May 7, 2011">
New Features:
- Added the max_sum_submatrix() function to the optimization tools.
- Upgraded the pyramid_down function object so it can create color pyramids.
Also, added some functions which define the coordinate transforms between
different layers in an image pyramid.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the oca_problem interface to the oca optimizer. Now the
optimization_status() function reports back the current risk and risk gap
in addition to the overall objective value and objective gap.
- Changed the stopping condition for the structured svm to the one suggested
by the Joachims paper. Now it stops when the risk gap is below a user
supplied epsilon.
Bug fixes:
Other:
- Various usability improvements.
- Improved the feature vector caching in the structural_svm_problem object.
- Some objects were setup as multi-implementation objects but only had one
implementation. I went through dlib and switched these to single implementation
objects. So for example, to use the dlib crc32 module you used to declare an
object of type "crc32::kernel_1a" but now you can just say "crc32". Note that
I did this change in a way that maintains backwards compatibility with previous
versions. So crc32::kernel_1a is still allowed but that form is officially
deprecated. The modified objects are as follows:
- base64
- byte_orderer
- config_reader
- crc32
- pipe
- rand
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<old name="17.37" date="Mar 24, 2011">
New Features:
- Added a multiclass support vector machine.
- Added a tool for solving the optimization problem associated with
structural support vector machines.
- Added new functions for dealing with sparse vectors: add_to(),
subtract_from(), max_index_plus_one(), fix_nonzero_indexing(), a
more flexible dot(), and I renamed assign_dense_to_sparse() to assign()
and made it more flexible.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Renamed max_index_value_plus_one() (a function for working with graphs) to
max_index_plus_one() so that it uses the same name as the essentially
identical function for working with sparse vectors.
- I simplified the cross_validate_multiclass_trainer(), cross_validate_trainer(),
test_binary_decision_function(), and test_multiclass_decision_function()
routines. They now always return double matrices regardless of any other
consideration. This only breaks previous code if you had been assigning
the result into a float or long double matrix.
- Renamed assign_dense_to_sparse() to assign()
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in load_libsvm_formatted_data(). I had forgotten to clear the
contents of the labels output vector before adding the loaded label data.
- Fixed a bug in the kernel_matrix() function. It didn't compile when used
with sparse samples which were of type std::vector&lt;std::pair&lt;&gt; &gt;.
Moreover, some of the trainers have a dependency on kernel_matrix() so this
fix makes those trainers also work with this kind of sparse sample.
Other:
- Added a value_type typedef to matrix_exp so it's easier to write templates
which operate on STL containers and matrix objects.
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<old name="17.36" date="Mar 2, 2011">
New Features:
- Added an implementation of the Hungarian algorithm for solving the optimal
assignment problem (in the new max_cost_assignment() routine).
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a problem which prevented the any_function unit test from compiling
in visual studio 2008.
Other:
- Changed the oca optimizer so that it warm starts the QP subproblem
rather than resolving it from scratch during each iteration. This
improves the speed and stability of the algorithm.
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<old name="17.35" date="Feb 10, 2011">
New Features:
- Added the rr_trainer. It is a version of krr_trainer which is optimized
for use with the linear_kernel.
- Added the approximate_distance_function() routine. It is the core optimizer
behind the reduced2() trainer adapter.
- Added an any_function which supports the same functionality as std::function
from the upcoming C++0x standard. I added this so dlib can be modified to
easily support lambda functions while still being compilable with compilers
which don't support the new std::function.
- Added overloads of all the GUI event handlers so you can use general functions
as callbacks (via any_function). This way, if you have a C++0x compiler, you
can use lambda functions with the event handlers.
- Added the split() function for splitting up strings.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Improved the distance_function object by turning it into a properly
encapsulated class rather than just a simple struct. I also added
overloaded +, -, *, and / operators for this object so you can do the
kind of arithmetic you would expect on an object which represents a
point in a vector space. This breaks backwards compatibility with
the previous interface though as the member variables are now private.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a compile-time error in the kernel_matrix().
- Fixed a bug in an assert in the spatially_filter_image() function.
- Applied a patch from Nils Labugt which fixes a runtime bug in the gui_core
component. The bug caused a crash when using X11 and Ubuntu 10.10 in
certain cases.
- Updated code so that it compiles with the clang compiler.
Other:
- Updated the image_display widget so you can zoom in and out using the
mouse wheel.
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<old name="17.34" date="Jan 03, 2011">
New Features:
- General Stuff
- Added the promote template
- Added the basic_type template
- Added the assign_image_scaled() function
- Added the unordered_pair object.
- Added the symmetric_matrix_cache() function
- Added two new quadratic program solvers. The solve_qp2_using_smo
and solve_qp3_using_smo objects.
- Machine Learning Stuff
- Added the svm_c_trainer object. It implements C-SVM classification and
allows the user to set different C values for each class.
- Added the svm_one_class_trainer object.
- Added the svr_trainer object. It implements epsilon-insensitive
support vector regression.
- Added two new any objects. The any_decision_function for containing
decision function style objects and the any_trainer for trainers.
- Added cross_validate_regression_trainer()
- Added test_regression_function()
- Added the probabilistic() function. It is a trainer adapter that
simply calls train_probabilistic_decision_function().
- Added tools for multiclass classification
- Added one_vs_one_trainer
- Added one_vs_all_trainer
- Added cross_validate_multiclass_trainer()
- Added test_multiclass_decision_function()
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- invalid_svm_nu_error has been renamed to invalid_nu_error.
- Changed the pixel_traits so that signed grayscale pixel types are allowed.
This involved adding a few new fields to pixel_traits. I also changed the
get_pixel_intensity() function so that its return value is of the same type
as the basic pixel type rather than always being unsigned long.
- Removed the kernel_type typedef from the normalized function since this
meta-object should be capable of working with non-kernel decision functions.
- train_probabilistic_decision_function() no longer accepts column vectors of
samples and labels. Now it only accepts std::vectors of samples and labels.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the deserialization code for the sparse kernels. The bug
prevented code which used the deserialize() routine from compiling.
Other:
- Changed the image display GUI widgets to use the assign_image_scaled()
function internally. Now they will accept just about any image and
do the right thing.
- Modified the type_safe_union so that you can call apply_to_contents() on const
type_safe_unions.
- Added serialization support for std::pair objects.
- Made the train_probabilistic_decision_function() more general by making it work
with any kind of trainer object rather than only ones which produce
dlib::decision_function objects. I also made it work with trainers that only
take std::vectors.
- Added overloads to the config_reader's methods to allow it to load directly
from a file name given as a string in addition to taking istream objects.
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<old name="17.33" date="Dec 05, 2010">
New Features:
- Added the ability to add/subtract scalar values to/from all the elements
of a matrix using the - and + operators.
- Added a trust region optimizer.
- Added Levenberg-Marquardt and LM/quasi-newton hybrid methods for solving
non-linear least squares problems.
- Added an any container object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a compiler warning and also a runtime bug in sort_basis_vectors().
The bug triggered when all the basis vectors were included in the final
answer.
Other:
- Added a bunch of overloads to catch operations on diagonal matrices
and use more efficient code paths for them. For example, inv(diagm(d))
turns into diagm(reciprocal(d)). Multiplication by a diagonal matrix
is now also handled efficiently.
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<old name="17.32" date="Nov 13, 2010">
New Features:
- Added a class for reading JPEG image files.
- Added scale_rows(), flipud() and fliplr() matrix functions.
- Added console_progress_indicator. It is a tool for measuring how long a
task will take.
- Added sort_basis_vectors(). It is a function for performing supervised
basis selection.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Renamed the linearly_independent_subset_finder's dictionary_size() member
function to size(). This way, linearly_independent_subset_finder objects
can be used in many templated functions which expect objects which look
like arrays.
Bug fixes:
- Changed the assert macros so that they don't use __PRETTY_FUNCTION__
with gcc 4.4.5 since, on Ubuntu at least, this version of gcc segfaults
when __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ is used within certain template constructs.
- Improved the alias detection capability of kernel_matrix() expressions.
Now statements of the form: sample = kernel_matrix(kern, *, sample) can
be used since the aliasing of sample will be handled.
Other:
- Generally tried to make things more usable.
- Optimized matrix expressions such as mat*diagm(vect)
- Made the code in chol() more robust to indefinite matrices.
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<old name="17.31" date="Sep 15, 2010">
New Features:
- Added the running_scalar_covariance object.
- All the matrix decomposition routines now use LAPACK when DLIB_USE_LAPACK
is #defined.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed the dlib::EOTHER constant since it conflicts with visual
studio 2010.
- Changed the svd functions so you can't supply output matrices which use
both column and row major layouts. Now all the output matrices need to
use the same memory layout.
- Removed the qr_decomposition::get_householder() function.
Bug fixes:
- Minor fixes so that dlib compiles in Visual Studio 2010
Other:
- Added an overloaded matrix_assign() that handles symmetric kernel_matrix()
expressions more efficiently by only evaluating the upper triangular part
of the matrix.
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<old name="17.30" date="Jul 28, 2010">
New Features:
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a compile-time bug in the matrix related to multiplication by
subm() expressions when the BLAS bindings were enabled.
- Fixed a bug in train_probabilistic_decision_function() which could
cause it to go into an infinite loop when working with very large
datasets.
Other:
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<old name="17.29" date="Jul 25, 2010">
New Features:
- Added a reference_wrapper implementation and modified the thread_function
slightly so it works with it.
- Added an implementation of kernel ridge regression.
- Added a simple newton search strategy for optimizing functions.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- If you have created your own matrix expressions then its possible this
new release will cause them to not compile.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in scale_columns. It said it didn't have any destructive aliasing
when in fact it destructively aliased its second argument.
- Fixed a bug in the random number generator where setting the seed back to ""
didn't result in the object going back to its initial state.
Other:
- Reorganized the matrix expression code. It's now much simpler and the
library includes a new example program which details the steps needed to
create new matrix expressions.
- Changed the train_probabilistic_decision_function() routine so that it uses
a more numerically stable method to perform its maximum likelihood optimization.
- Added missing get/set epsilon functions to the RVM training objects.
I also changed the default epsilon from 0.0005 to 0.001.
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<old name="17.28" date="Jun 14, 2010">
New Features:
- Added the simplify_linear_decision_function() routines.
- Added the find_approximate_k_nearest_neighbors() function.
- Added the fill_lisf() function.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Made the sample_pair have a default distance of infinity instead of
the max floating point value. I also reworked the graph creation functions
to make them a little more versatile. Now you can use infinite distances to
indicate that certain nodes are not connected at all.
- Changed the linear_manifold_regularizer to normalize the regularization
parameter by the sum of edge weights instead of the sum of edges.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the timer_kernel_2 object. In certain rare cases it would
stop calling the action function and essentially shut down without being
told to do so.
Other:
- Made the reduced() and reduced2() functions more efficient.
- Many small usability improvements here and there.
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<old name="17.27" date="May 16, 2010">
New Features:
- Added the svm_c_ekm_trainer. It is a kernelized version of the fast
linear trainer svm_c_linear_trainer.
- Added the linear_manifold_regularizer and some supporting tools.
- Added the sum_rows(), sum_cols(), join_rows(), join_cols(), reshape(),
and pointer_to_matrix() functions.
- Added the randomly_subsample() function.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed some minor compile time bugs on certain older compilers.
Other:
- Updated the += and -= matrix operators to be a little more flexible. Now
if you try to apply them to a matrix of the wrong size it will automatically
resize the target matrix and just do a normal assignment.
- Removed the requirement that you load dng files into an image of the exact
pixel type that created the file. Now you can use any pixel type. I also
changed the code so that grayscale pixels with more than 16 bits get saved as
16 bit grayscale images instead of 8 bit images.
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<old name="17.26" date="Mar 07, 2010">
New Features:
- Added the solve_qp_using_smo() function to solve certain quadratic
programs.
- Added the oca object. It is an implementation of the Optimized Cutting
Plane Algorithm.
- Added a linear SVM trainer that uses oca.
- Added an implementation of the Histogram of Oriented Gradients algorithm
- Added a simple tool for making image pyramids
- Added the running_covariance object
- Added a simple linear (i.e. non-kernelized) kmeans implementation
- Added support for serializing dlib::int64
- Added some functions to load and save LIBSVM formatted data files.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the definition of dlib's sparse vector format to require
unsigned integral keys. Having this requirement is nice because it
creates a simple correspondence between dense vector index values and
sparse vector keys. The previous sparse vector definition was
excessively generic.
- Renamed sparse_vector::dot_product() to sparse_vector::dot() so that
both dense and sparse vectors have a global function with the same
name (i.e. dot()).
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug discovered by Mitchell Peabody. In some instances trying to
deserialize a std::vector would fail to compile.
Other:
- Increased the number of template arguments of the type_safe_union from 10
to 20. Additionally, I made the get_id() function public and renamed it
to get_type_id(). I also added a comment explaining the serialization
format of type_safe_union objects.
- Moved the optimization algorithms into their own page in the documentation.
- Added a Suggested Books page to the documentation
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<old name="17.25" date="Feb 05, 2010">
New Features:
- Added the ability to compute transformation matrices that map between
the representations used by different empirical_kernel_maps. Also added
the ability to compute projection error.
- Added the random_subset_selector object.
- Added the compute_mean_squared_distance() function.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Modified the logger's hook implementation so that it uses a special stream
buffer instead of an std::ostringstream. This way logging doesn't cause
memory allocations. This breaks backwards compatibility with the previous
hook function API but only slightly. The new hook functions must take a
const char* instead of std::string.
- Added the const_ret_type typedef to the matrix_exp. It is now required that
all matrix expressions define this type. This enables the expressions to
return elements by constant reference when appropriate rather than always
returning by value.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the matrix BLAS bindings that caused BLAS to return an invalid
argument error. The error occurred when general matrix multiply expressions
were transposed and didn't result in a square matrix. E.g. mat = trans(a*b)
where mat isn't square.
- Fixed potential compile time bugs in the comparison operators for futures.
- Added a missing check for division by zero in the SURF feature extractor.
- Modified the find_min_single_variable() function so that it is more
robust when working with functions that are made up of a bunch of
constant value strips. Previously, these kinds of functions could
cause the optimization to fail.
Other:
- Changed the regression test suite so that when it sets the logging level
it now sets it for all loggers. Not just ones that start with "test."
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<old name="17.24" date="Jan 04, 2010">
New Features:
- Added some MATLAB style thresholding relational operators to the matrix.
- Added the kernel_matrix() functions.
- Added the empirical_kernel_map object.
- Added the discriminant_pca object.
- Added the read_write_mutex object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Renamed the support_vectors member of the decision_function and
distance_function classes to basis_vectors. This name more appropriately
reflects how these two classes are used within the library.
- Changed the matrix_exp interface slightly. This could only impact users
who created their own custom matrix expressions. If you don't get a
compiler error then you don't have to worry about it.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a minor error in the LBFGS code.
- Added a missing check for division by zero to the kcentroid, krls,
and linearly_independent_subset_finder classes. If someone added
the zero vector to them as the first training example a division by zero
could result.
- There were a few cases where the code wouldn't compile when using
matrices of complex numbers. There was also a runtime bug that triggered
when a rank 1 update was performed where one of the vectors was conjugated
and two or more transposes were used in certain positions. This bug
caused the wrong output to be computed if the BLAS bindings were used.
Both of these bugs have been fixed.
- Fixed a bug in the http server that affected cookies with certain kinds of
data. The result was invalid data being sent back to the web browser.
Other:
- Generally improved the BLAS bindings for the matrix object.
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<old name="17.23" date="Oct 20, 2009">
New Features:
- Added the pointer_to_column_vector function.
- Added the BOBYQA algorithm for derivative-free optimization.
- Added some functions to make it easy to do a line search on a function
of a single variable when derivatives are not available.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the cpp pretty printer. It wasn't parsing
exponentiated numbers like 1e100 correctly.
Other:
- Added a model selection example program using grid search
and the new BOBYQA algorithm.
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<old name="17.22" date="Sep 10, 2009">
New Features:
- Added an implementation of the L-BFGS algorithm for unconstrained non-linear
optimization.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Refactored the optimization code. It is now much more flexible but
this resulted in changes to the API. See the optimization example program
for a discussion of the new API.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the get_filesystem_roots() roots function that
prevented it from compiling.
Other:
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<old name="17.21" date="Aug 30, 2009">
New Features:
- Added the ability to use a kernel cache to the batch_trainer object.
- svm_pegasos can now be configured to use two different lambda arguments
for use with unbalanced data.
- Added the reciprocal_max() and dot() matrix functions.
- Added the bgr_pixel and cv_image objects so that OpenCV images can
be easily used with dlib routines.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- I changed the batch trainers so that they always call clear() on the
trainer being used before training begins.
- Modified the svm_pegasos class so that the user can set independent lambda
parameters for each class. This breaks backwards compatibility with
the previous interface slightly and changes the serialization format
of this class.
- Split the vector_normalizer into a normal normalizer and a pca normalizer
version.
- The zoomable_region widget now uses exponential rather than linear
zoom scaling since this is much more pleasing to use. There is now
a new requirement on the zoom increment that it must be between 0
and 1.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the cross_validate_trainer_threaded() function. It could
deadlock if more than about 10 folds were requested.
- Fixed the serialization functions for the normalized_function object.
They will now work with custom normalizer function objects.
- Fixed a minor bug in the zoomable_region::set_min_zoom_scale() function.
It didn't always end up zooming in a smooth sensible manner after this
function was called.
Other:
- Made the thread_function object more general. It can now handle
arbitrary functions of up to four arguments.
</old>
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<old name="17.20" date="Jul 11, 2009">
New Features:
- Added the reshape_to_column_vector() function.
- Added a hook to the logger object that lets you set a different kind of
output logging destination (in addition to the std::ostream supported
already).
- Upgraded the scoped_ptr so that it can handle array pointers as well
as customer deleter functions.
- Added overloads of the kernel_derivative object for all the kernels
in dlib.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Reworked the config_reader interface a little to make it easier to use.
In particular, I removed the enumerator over blocks in favor of a simple
get_blocks() function that just returns a std::vector of all the blocks.
I also removed the requires clauses on the block and key accessor functions
and instead made a request for a non-existent key/block result in a non-fatal
exception. This way users can let the config reader perform a more natural
role in config file validation (by catching this exception and acting
accordingly).
- It is now illegal to multiply matrices of size zero together.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed the gaussian() function used by the SURF code. It wasn't computing
a properly weighted Gaussian function.
- Fixed a few things in various parts of the code to avoid compiler errors
in certain use-cases.
- Added a missing rethrow statement. The xml parser would eat exceptions
thrown by event handlers rather than letting them propagate out as
documented in the specification.
Other:
</old>
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<old name="17.19" date="May 25, 2009">
New Features:
- Added an implementation of the SURF algorithm which includes the
following new objects and functions: integral_image, hessian_pyramid,
interest_point, surf_point, compute_dominant_angle(),
compute_surf_descriptor(), haar_x(), haar_y(), get_interest_points(),
and get_surf_points().
- Added the zeros_matrix() and ones_matrix() functions.
- Added serialization support to the type_safe_union object.
- Added the grow_rect() and shrink_rect() functions.
- Added the get_files_in_directory_tree() function.
- Added the null_trainer_type object.
- Added the roc_trainer_type object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed some extraneous get_kernel() functions from some of the
trainer adapter classes since they really aren't needed.
Bug fixes:
- Changed the socket read/write code so that it can handle a large
number ( > 2 billion) of bytes in I/O calls.
- Added a missing type cast to the reciprocal() function to fix a compile
time error you get when you use it with complex&lt;float&gt; type matrices.
- Fixed a bug in the assign_border_pixels() and zero_border_pixels() functions.
Their contracts said there was no upper limit on the size of the border that
could be assigned/zeroed but the implementations failed to handle the case
where the border was bigger than the image.
Other:
- Generally cleaned up the code and documentation here and there.
- Added in Steven Van Ingelgem's patches to improve the usability of the
HTTP server object.
- Updated the load_bmp() function so that it is capable of reading BMP
files that have been compressed with the RLE compression sometimes
used for 8bit BMP files.
- Merged in Miguel Grinberg's patch to add a non-blocking read() function to the
connection object.
</old>
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<old name="17.18" date="Apr 5, 2009">
New Features:
- Added a set of kernels that can operate on sparse vectors.
- Added the image_window and image_display objects.
- Added the rotate_point() function and the point_rotator object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Added Steven Van Ingelgem's patch to add the body of data posted
back to the server into the incoming data object given to the
server_http::on_request() handler. This removes the content_length
field and replaces it with a string that contains the body of content
data.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a compile time bug in the offset_kernel.
Other:
- Added optimized overloads of the kcentroid object for various
linear kernels.
- Changed all the tests in the dlib test suite to use a new DLIB_TEST
macro instead of DLIB_CASSERT since the tests really aren't
technically assertions
</old>
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<old name="17.17" date="Mar 16, 2009">
New Features:
- Added the strings_equal_ignore_case() functions
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the on_request() function in the http server
- Changed the serialization format of the kcentroid and svm_pegasos
objects
- By default, the kcentroid now keeps the most linearly independent
dictionary vectors rather than the newest
Bug fixes:
Other:
- Split the algorithms documentation page into three pages, algorithms,
machine learning, and bayes nets.
- Merged in Steven Van Ingelgem's patch to cleanup the HTTP server and
add new functionality. This breaks backwards compatibility with the
previous on_request() interface but it is easy to update old code and
it is now much cleaner and easier to use.
- Changed the kcentroid so that you can tell it to keep the most linearly
independent vectors rather than the newest vectors. I then changed the
svm_pegasos object so that it has a max number of support vector setting
so that the user can supply an upper limit on the number of support
vectors to use.
</old>
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<old name="17.16" date="Mar 08, 2009">
New Features:
- Matrix related
- Added the find_min_and_max(), index_of_min(), index_of_max(), trace(),
randm(), linspace(), logspace(), and cartesian_product() functions.
- Machine learning related
- Added the offset_kernel
- Added some functions to the kcentroid to allow the user to compute
the inner_product of kcentroids as well as a few other useful things.
- Added a kernelized version of the Pegasos SVM training algorithm.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the range() function so that it returns row vectors
instead of column vectors.
Bug fixes:
- Changed threading code to avoid a potential race condition during
program termination.
- Fixed a few incorrect DLIB_ASSERT statements
- Fixed a bug in the way Content-type was handled in HTTP posts.
- Fixed a bug in subm() that showed up when statically dimensioned row
vectors were used to select a sub matrix.
Other:
- Added some functions to the rectangle to make it easy
to get the corner points.
- The cross validation functions no longer allow invalid_svm_nu_error
exceptions to escape. Instead, they are assigned low CV scores.
- Made std_vector_c able to copy directly from std::vector objects.
- Added a get_socket_descriptor() function to the connection class.
</old>
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<old name="17.15" date="Feb 03, 2009">
New Features:
- Matrix related
- Added QR, LU, Cholesky, and eigenvalue decomposition class objects
- Added overloads for rowm() and colm() that allow you to pick out
less than an entire vector
- Added the lowerm() and upperm() functions
- Added the const_temp_matrix class
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Renamed the cholesky_decomposition() function to chol()
Bug fixes:
- Fixed some errors in the requirements for calling the new rowm() and
colm() functions.
- Fixed dlib::abs() so that it returns the right type when used
with complex matrices.
- Fixed a race condition in the logger object. It was missing a needed call
to unregister_thread_end_handler(). What could happen in some scenarios is,
during program termination, a global part of the logger object could be destructed
when it still had outstanding thread end handlers registered to it.
Other:
- Added an example program that shows how to use the optimization
functions.
- Gave the matrix object the ability to factor expressions containing
trans() function calls into more efficient forms.
- Generally cleaned up the matrix code
</old>
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<old name="17.14" date="Jan 18, 2009">
New Features:
- Added the multi-line text_box GUI widget.
- Added the type_safe_union object
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Renamed the array::expand() function to array::resize() since it does
basically the same thing as std::vector::resize() and more than one
user has told me they found the name "expand" to be confusing.
Bug fixes:
Other:
- Added an example showing how to use the type_safe_union and pipe
together.
- Added a page to the documentation that discusses the dlib coding
standards and how to contribute to the project.
</old>
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<old name="17.13" date="Jan 05, 2009">
New Features:
- Added the bound_function_pointer object.
- Added support for futures to the thread_pool object.
- Added a set of objects that makes it possible to create simulations
of quantum computing algorithms.
- Added copy and paste support to the text_field.
- matrix object stuff
- Added the range() function as well as overloads of all the various
sub-matrix selection functions so that you can pick out slices of
matrices like in Matlab.
- Added a new template argument to the matrix object that allows the
user to select the memory layout. Also added a row_major_layout
and column_major_layout.
- The matrix object can now be initialized using a comma separated
list of values.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the fatal_error exception class so that it aborts your program
and prints a message if you try to construct it more than once since
doing so indicates that you ignored the first fatal error.
- The way matrix expressions work in the library has been changed
since the last release. So if you created custom matrix expressions
then they will need to be updated to use the new matrix expression stuff.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a minor bug in how the zoomable_region widget drew itself after
a resize in some cases.
- Fixed a problem with draw_line where it didn't always redraw the line
properly.
Other:
- A lot of the matrix code has been refactored and optimized. The matrix
object will now introduce temporary objects when doing so results in
better performance. I also added a simple system for binding
arbitrary matrix expressions to optimized BLAS routines.
- Cleaned up the vector and point classes. Now there is only one class,
the vector class, and it is capable of representing everything the old
vector and point class could. I also added code to make sure the
vector class does the appropriate type promotions when vector objects
with different types are used together.
- Made the vector class inherit from matrix
</old>
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<old name="17.12" date="Nov 10, 2008">
New Features:
- Added user settable styles to most of the gui widgets
- Added the diagm(), svd2() and svd3() matrix functions
- Added the thread_pool object
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed the arrow_button widget and moved its functionality into the
button widget.
- Renamed the dragable class to draggable
- Removed the confusing and unnecessary hidden bool argument to the
gui widget style drawing functions.
- Changed some of the events that are about the mouse leaving a widget so
that they still trigger even if the widget has been disabled or hidden.
Bug fixes:
- Added some missing mutex locks to the scroll_bar widget
- Fixed a bug in the fill_gradient_rounded() function. It didn't always
draw the entire rectangle.
- Fixed a compile time bug in the pinv() function. It didn't compile
when used on statically sized matrices when they weren't square.
Other:
- The member_function_pointer object now never calls new or delete.
So it is safe to use in a real time environment.
</old>
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<old name="17.11" date="Oct 20, 2008">
New Features:
- Added the sort_columns() and rsort_columns() functions
- Added the vector_normalizer object
- Added the normalized_function object.
- Added a tensor_product() function for the matrix object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Made it so that the gui event handler thread isn't created at all
unless some part of an application calls some of the gui_core code.
In the previous release the event handler thread was executed
briefly during program termination and could cause problems if no
windowing environment was available.
- Fixed an #include statement in the matrix utilities so that it works
even if you don't specify an include path argument to your compiler.
Other:
</old>
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<old name="17.10" date="Oct 09, 2008">
New Features:
- Added a thread safe shared pointer object
- Added the popup_menu_region widget.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The on_wheel_up() and on_wheel_down() gui events now take an unsigned long
argument.
- Removed the register_program_ending_handler() function from the threading
API and also changed the dlib thread pool so that it no longer causes
a terminating program to wait for any outstanding threads to finish
before allowing the application to end.
- Changed the serialization format of the linearly_independent_subset_finder
class.
- Changed all the font pointers in the gui API's interfaces
to shared_ptr_thread_safe objects.
Bug fixes:
- Made the kkmeans class actually use the min_change parameter.
- Fixed a bug in the linearly_independent_subset_finder object. Also
added a way to set a minimum tolerance.
- Fixed a bug in the scrollable_region widget that caused it to scroll in an
unpleasant way when the horizontal and vertical scroll increments weren't
set to the same value.
- Made one of the arguments to font::draw_string() not be a reference because
some versions of gcc don't end up doing the right thing when -O3 is
supplied.
- Fixed a bug in the covariance() function that prevented it from compiling
sometimes.
Other:
- Changed the gui core code around so that it should be safe to make window
objects at the global scope.
- Added more control over how the scrollable_region scrolls its region.
You can now adjust how much it scrolls when the mouse wheel is scrolled
as well as enabling scrolling via a mouse drag.
- Modified the library so that it compiles with the Intel compiler.
- Added some example programs that use the relevance vector machine
</old>
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<old name="17.9" date="Sep 06, 2008">
New Features:
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the tooltip widget
- Fixed the cmake option to toggle the ENABLE_ASSERTS macro
- Fixed some bugs in the rvm
- Fixed the serialization code for the kkmeans object so that it actually
works
- Fixed a bug that can trigger when the thread_specific_data object is
destructed
- Fixed a bug in the directory navigation gui. If you tried to go
into a drive on windows that wasn't mounted you got an error.
This is now fixed.
Other:
- Made the dir_nav stuff work with std::vector and dlib::std_vector_c
as well as dlib::queue objects.
- Generally cleaned up a bunch of things
</old>
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<old name="17.8" date="Aug 14, 2008">
New Features:
- Added relevance vector machine regression and classification support.
- Added the cross_validate_trainer_threaded() function
- Added the length and length_squared matrix functions.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Changed gui code a little so that windows don't popup in funny
places when used with the cygwin X windows system.
Other:
- Made it easier to use the scoped_ptr with the TCP connection object
- Optimized the matrix object a little
</old>
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<old name="17.7" date="Jul 25, 2008">
New Features:
- Machine Learning
- Added the ability to compare kcentroid objects to each other
- Added the rank_features() function
- Added the distance_function object
- Added the reduced_decision_function_trainer object and
reduced() function
- Added the reduced_decision_function_trainer2 object and
reduced2() function
- Added a radial basis function network trainer
- Added the linearly_independent_subset_finder object
- Added the sigmoid_kernel
- Matrix Utilities
- Added the inv_upper_triangular() and inv_upper_triangular()
functions.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Refactored a bunch of the kernel learning code into a much cleaner form.
But this does change the interface to all the training functions.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the min and max calculation in the running_stats object
- Removed a bug in the sum() and variance() functions that
caused them to seg fault when they were used on certain
matrix of matrix objects.
- Added a missing check for division by zero to the conjugate gradient
optimization functions.
- Added some missing member variables to the .swap and serialization
functions for the kcentroid object. So now they should work right.
Other:
- Added an option to the cmake file to toggle the DLIB_ASSERT macro
- Added an option to the cmake file to toggle the dlib stack trace macros
- Made the library compile in Cygwin
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<old name="17.6" date="Jun 22, 2008">
New Features:
- Merged in Keita Mochizuki's unicode patches to the GUI components. So
the dlib GUI now has better unicode support.
- Added the remove_row and remove_col matrix functions. Also made all
three of the above functions capable of taking arguments at run time
as well as compile time.
- Added the ability to cap the number of dictionary vectors used by the krls
and kcentroid object at a user specified number.
- Added the pick_initial_centers() function
- Added the running_stats object
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the interface to the krls and kcentroid objects somewhat.
- All of the style objects in the GUI part of the library now use
dlib::ustring instead of std::string. This only matters to you if
you have made your own style objects.
- Changed the serialization format of the krls, kcentroid, and
directed_graph_drawer objects. Note that is also means that the
files saved by previous versions of the bayes_net_gui_ex program
won't load with the current version.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an aliasing bug in the set_subm(), set_rowm(), and set_colm()
functions. It was possible that you could get incorrect results
if you used these functions to copy one part of a matrix to another
part of the same matrix if the two areas overlapped.
- Fixed a minor numerical error in the krls code so now it gets slightly
better results.
Other:
- Made the types generated by the matrix operations a lot shorter. This
avoids some compiler warnings from visual studio and even some potential
internal compiler errors in some instances.
</old>
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<old name="17.5" date="Jun 2, 2008">
New Features:
- Added some macros that allow dlib to create a stack trace
- Added the wrap_function and is_function templates.
- Added two new events to the text_field object. One for detecting when the
user hits enter and another for detecting when input focus is lost.
- Machine Learning
- Added a kernel based centroid estimator/novelty detector
- Added a kernel based k-means clustering algorithm
- Numerical
- Added an identity_matrix() function that can take a runtime defined size.
- Added a bunch of unconstrained optimization stuff to the library.
It now has a conjugate gradient optimization algorithm as well as
a quasi-newton algorithm.
- Added the set_subm, set_rowm, and set_colm functions.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- In the krls object: Added a requires clause to the set_tolerance() member
function and renamed clear() to clear_dictionary().
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the requires clause of the subm() function. It was
more restrictive than it should have been.
Other:
- Added example programs for the krls object as well as the new
kcentroid and kkmeans objects.
</old>
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<old name="17.4" date="May 12, 2008">
New Features:
- Added an implementation of the kernel recursive least squares algorithm
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Broke backwards compatibility in the directed_graph_drawer's serialization
format when I fixed the bug below.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed two bugs in the directed_graph_drawer widget. First, it sometimes
threw a dlib::fatal_error due to a race condition. Second, the color of
the nodes wasn't being serialized when save_graph() was called.
- Made vector_to_matrix() work for std::vector objects that have non-default
allocators.
Other:
- Added some stuff to make people get a really obvious error message
when they set up the include path incorrectly.
</old>
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<old name="17.3" date="Apr 28, 2008">
New Features:
- Added the vector_to_matrix() function.
- Added a cholesky_decomposition() function.
- Added the toggle_button GUI widget
- Added a default toggle button style as well as check box and
radio button styles.
- Added a single click event to list_box
- Added a save_file_box() and open_existing_file_box() function.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the check_box and radio_button widgets to be specializations of
the new toggle_button object. This is a nearly backwards compatible
change except that the events registered to check_box and radio_button
clicks must now take the form void event(toggle_button&amp;) or
void event(void) instead of the previous void event(check_box&amp;) and
void event(radio_button&amp;).
- Removed the is_mouse_over bool from the button_style::draw_button()
function.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a compiler error in mingw.
- Changed the preprocessor checks for the wchar_t overload of
is_built_in_scalar_type so that it works properly with visual studio.
Other:
- Added a Bayesian Network GUI that allows you to create a network
and serialize it to disk.
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<old name="17.2" date="Apr 21, 2008">
New Features:
- GUI Related
- Added the scrollable_region widget
- Added the text_grid widget
- Added an event to the text_field so you can tell when the
user modifies it.
- Added the fit_to_contents() function to the tabbed_display
widget.
- Bayesian Network Related
- Added the node_first_parent_assignment(), node_next_parent_assignment(),
and node_cpt_filled_out() functions.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Reverted the change in 17.0 where I made drawable::lastx and
drawable::lasty not match the current location of the mouse inside
the on_mouse_move() event. I changed this back to how it was before,
so now lastx and lasty represent the most current record of where
the mouse is in *all* events.
- Changed the functions that control text color in the label and text_field
widgets to use rgb_pixel objects. Also added a function to set the
background color of a text_field.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the bayesian_network_join_tree object that caused it to
compute incorrect results for some networks.
- GUI Related
- Fixed a minor bug in the cursor drawing of the text_field
gui widget.
- Fixed a bug in the compute_cursor_rect() function. It would return an
incorrectly positioned rectangle for 0 length strings.
- Changed the way wchar_t is handled in the serialize.h file. Now
everything should compile correctly in visual studio regardless of how
you set the /Zc:wchar_t compiler option.
- Fixed a bug in the menu_bar widget. One of the members wasn't being
initialized when it needed to be.
- Fixed a bug in the tabbed_display where it didn't redraw itself
correctly after it was moved by set_pos()
Other:
- Changed the xml parser so that it counts line numbers
from the start of the input stream instead of from the
root tag.
- Changed the xml parser so that you will only get the fatal_error
event once if it occurs.
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<old name="17.1" date="Apr 13, 2008">
New Features:
- Added a zoomable_region widget
- Added a directed_graph_drawer widget
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the first_pixel argument of the draw_string() function
to be a rectangle like all the other draw functions now use.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the tooltip widget that was triggered when calling
its member functions without calling set_tooltip_text(). This also
fixed a bug in the button object that triggered when calling some button
functions that referenced the tooltip widget.
- Fixed a problem in the draw_circle and draw_solid_circle functions.
They didn't draw themselves quite correctly in all cases.
Other:
</old>
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<old name="17.0" date="Apr 07, 2008">
New Features:
- Added a png_loader object
- GUI related
- Added a popup_menu widget
- Added a menu_bar widget
- Added a tooltip widget
- Added a user selectable style to the gui button.
- Added the draw_rounded_rectangle() and fill_gradient_rounded() functions
- Added the mouse_over_event object to the base_widgets and made the
button_action inherit from it.
- Added the drawable::next_free_user_event_number() function
- matrix and geometry:
- Added a size() function to matrix_exp and matrix_ref objects.
- Added a class that represents 2D points
- Added the following matrix functions:
- squared(), cubed(), get_rect(), a subm() function that takes
rectangles, and normalize()
- Added the following rectangle functions:
- area(), centered_rect(), translate_rect(), move_rect(), resize_rect(),
resize_rect_height(), resize_rect_width(), and nearest_point()
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Renamed atom() to array_to_matrix()
- Moved the rectangle object from the gui_core into a new geometry folder
(only matters if you were directly including the rectangle file)
- Moved the vector object into the geometry folder. Also removed the kernel_1a
stuff. So there is now only one possible vector implementation.
- Changed the default position for a rectangle to (0,0) instead of (1,1)
- Added edge data to the directed_graph. This breaks backwards compatibility
with the previous serialization format for directed_graphs.
- GUI related:
- Changed the base_window::on_keydown event signature so that it now
reports more keyboard modifier keys (e.g. alt)
- Made the functions for drawing on canvas objects take points and pixels
instead of just a bunch of integers. Also changed the order of the
arguments so that the canvas comes first, followed by the location
to draw on, then what to draw.
- Moved the canvas drawing functions into the gui_widgets/canvas_drawing.h
file.
- Modified the drawable_window so that the drawable::lastx and drawable::lasty
fields are updated after calls to on_mouse_move. This way the x and y that
go into the on_mouse_move actually tell you something.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the floating point serialization code. It
didn't handle NaN or infinities correctly.
- Fixed a bug in the win32 version of the gui_core component. It was
possible that calling set_size(), set_pos(), or set_title() could cause
the program to deadlock.
- Made the load_bmp() function more robust in the face of weirdly
written BMP files.
- Modified the draw_circle() and draw_solid_circle() functions so that they
only touch each canvas pixel once. This avoids messing up alpha blending
if an rgb_alpha_pixel is used.
Other:
- Removed the old win32 only gui code in the dlib/gui folder.
- Changed the default GUI font to a nicer Sans Serif font
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<old name="16.5" date="Mar 04, 2008">
New Features:
- Added another constructor to the thread_function object.
Now it can take proper function objects as well as normal function
pointers.
- Added the probabilistic_decision_function object and svm_nu_train_prob()
function.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the svm train functions so that the cache_size argument
now measures the max number of megabytes of memory to use rather
than number of kernel matrix rows to cache. It's default
value is now 200MB.
- changed the type typedef in the SVM kernel function objects to
be named sample_type instead of type.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the trim, rtrim, and ltrim functions. They
didn't return empty strings when the input string contained all
trim characters.
- Fixed a bug in the decision_function's copy constructor
Other:
- Added an optimization to the working set selection for the svm training code.
Now the algorithm will prefer to select indices that are in the kernel
matrix cache when possible.
- Fixed a problem with the chm documentation file where many of the links
didn't work.
- Made the support vector functions capable of operating with floats, doubles,
and long doubles instead of just the double type.
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<old name="16.4" date="Feb 22, 2008">
New Features:
- Added aversion of the draw_line() function for images.
- Added the atom(), rowm(), colm(), and subm() matrix functions.
- Added some push/pop_back() functions to the array object that are similar
to the ones in the std::vector.
- Added the std_vector_c class that wraps std::vector and checks its
function's preconditions.
- Added the polynomial_kernel object for use with the svm algorithm.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the svm_nu_cross_validate() function to return a vector
of both the +1 and -1 cross validation accuracies.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the list_box that caused it to not hide itself properly
when told to do so.
- Fixed canvas::fill() gui function so that it should work right
on 64 bit platforms.
Other:
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<old name="16.3" date="Feb 12, 2008">
New Features:
- Added memory manager support to the matrix object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Made the assign_pixel() function saturate grayscale values bigger
than the target pixel type can handle. Previously it would just
truncate the numbers.
- Removed rand_kernel_1 and rand_kernel_2 because they gave very
inferior results compared to rand_kernel_3. I then renamed
rand_kernel_3 to rand_kernel_1.
- Renamed rand::get_random_number() to get_random_8bit_number() and also
added a get_random_16bit_number() and get_random_32bit_number()
- Added a checksum to compress_stream_kernel_1 and kernel_2. This
breaks backwards compatibility with the previous versions. That is,
the new implementations will complain that decompression fails if
you give them data compressed with the old non-checksum version of
the compression routines.
- Removed the width() and height() functions from the array2d object.
Now only the equivalent nc() and nr() member functions remain.
- Changed array2d::set_size(width,height) to set_size(num_rows, num_cols).
That is, I switched the order of the two arguments to this function.
The reason for doing this is to make it have the same form as the
set_size() member of the matrix object. This way the usage of the
set_size() member for these two very similar data structures is
the same. Hopefully this will reduce confusion rather than
make things worse.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the image_widget. It didn't repaint the screen
all the way if you gave it a smaller image to display.
- Fixed a bug in the cat() function that caused the state of the queue
to be broken if you called cat with an empty queue.
- Made the queue_sort_1 use a better sorting algorithm. In particular, it
will not sort slowly for nearly sorted data.
- Fixed a bug in the queue_kernel_2 object that caused it to not work
correctly with the non-default memory managers.
Other:
- Added example code for the member_function_pointer as well as the matrix
object.
- Added some more regression tests and made some of the longer running
ones execute a lot quicker.
- Made the unit test suite easier to use. Now tests just throw an exception
to indicate an error rather than returning an error code.
- Added an example program for the multi-layer perceptron neural network.
</old>
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<old name="16.2" date="Jan 25, 2008">
New Features:
- Added the is_signed_type and is_unsigned_type templates
- Image Processing stuff
- Added the assign_all_pixels() function
- Added the assign_border_pixels() function
- Added the assign_pixel_intensity() function
- Added the auto_threshold_image() function
- Added the binary_union() function
- Added the edge_orientation() function
- Added the get_histogram() function
- Added the get_pixel_intensity() function
- Added the hysteresis_threshold() function
- Added the sobel_edge_detector() function
- Added the suppress_non_maximum_edges() function
- Added the zero_border_pixels() function
- Changed the pixel_traits structure so that it can support 8, 16, and 32
bit grayscale pixels.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Added more fields to the pixel_traits template so if you had defined your
own pixel types you will need to update them.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed some compiler errors in Visual Studio 2008
Other:
- Generally tried to clean up the documentation and code in this release
</old>
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<old name="16.1" date="Jan 1, 2008">
New Features:
- Added the randomize_samples() function
- Added the set_main_font() and main_font() functions to the drawable object.
So now the drawable widgets can use a user provided font.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Made the named_rectangle object a little easier to use. It now won't
let you size it so small that it doesn't display its entire name.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the svm_nu_train() function that caused a crash with
some inputs.
- Fixed a compile time error that occurred when compiling the bayesian
network code in Mac OS X.
- Fixed a bug in the compute_cursor_pos() function where it would
return the incorrect value.
Other:
- Added an example showing how to use the svm functions.
</old>
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<old name="16.0" date="Dec 10, 2007">
New Features:
- Added the left_substr() and right_substr() functions
- Added the zero_extend_cast() function
- Added the unsigned_type template
- Added the uint8 typedef
- Bayesian Network related
- Added the assignment object
- Added the bayes_node object
- Added the joint_probability_table object
- Added the conditional_probability_table object
- Added the bayesian_network_gibbs_sampler object
This object implements an algorithm that performs approximate inference
in a Bayesian Network.
- Added the bayesian_network_join_tree object
This object implements an algorithm that performs exact inference
in a Bayesian Network.
- Set related
- Added the set_intersection_size() function
- Added the set_union() function
- Added the set_intersection() function
- Added the set_difference() function
- Graph related
- Added the graph object
- Added the is_graph template
- Added the is_directed_graph template
- Added the create_moral_graph() function
- Added the triangulate_graph_and_find_cliques() function
- Added the graph_contains_length_one_cycle() function
- Added the find_connected_nodes() function
- Added the graph_is_connected() function
- Added the is_clique() function
- Added the is_maximal_clique() function
- Added the copy_graph_structure() function
- Added the create_join_tree() function
- Added the is_join_tree() function
- Added the edge() function
- GUI related
- Added the base_window::get_display_size() function
- Added message_box_blocking()
- Added the bdf_font object which is capable of loading BDF font files into
the font object used by the gui_widgets
- Better Unicode support
- Added the basic_utf8_ifstream: An input stream that can read UTF-8 files
- Added serialization support for wchar_t and std::wstring
- Added the is_combining_char() function
- Added the convert_utf8_to_utf32() function
- Modified most of the string manipulation functions in dlib/string.h
to work with any kind of character type
- The gui widgets' font object now works with Unicode text (i.e. wchar_t
and unichar strings) as well as with normal char data.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The dlib/all_console.cpp and dlib/all_gui.cpp files have been deprecated
in favor of a new file. Now to build with dlib you simply add
dlib/all/source.cpp to your project regardless of what type of project
you are building.
- The GUI program entry point, winmain(), has been removed. You can now use
the normal main() entry point or some other non-standard entry point
provided by your compiler.
- Renamed directed_graph::node::item to directed_graph::node::data
Bug fixes:
- Fixed some build issues in gcc 4.2 involving some uses of the std_allocator
- Fixed some build issues in Visual Studio involving the dir_nav component
and building with NO_MAKEFILE #defined.
- Moved the #define that disables the old WinSock API into the sockets cpp
file. This should avoid conflicts with people who are using the old WinSock
API.
- Changed the tuple template slightly to avoid a bug in Visual Studio 7.1
that caused a compile time error in some instances.
Other:
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<old name="15.12" date="Nov 18, 2007">
New Features:
- Added a destroy() function to the map, set, hash_map, and hash_set objects.
- Added the tuple object
- Added an overload of connect() that has a timeout
- Added rand_kernel_3 as a random number generator that uses the Mersenne Twister
algorithm.
- Added the directed_graph object
- Added the graph_contains_undirected_cycle() and graph_contains_directed_cycle()
functions.
- Added the std_allocator object. It is a STL style allocator that can use
the dlib memory manager objects.
- std::string manipulation functions:
- Added the cast_to_string() function.
- Added the tolower() function
- Added the toupper() function
- Added the ltrim() function
- Added the rtrim() function
- Added the trim() function
- Added the lpad() function
- Added the rpad() function
- Added the pad() function
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the default logging level from LNONE to LERROR
- Renamed the ASSERT macro to DLIB_ASSERT and CASSERT to DLIB_CASSERT.
This rename avoids a conflict with a macro inside MFC.
- Changed the logger so that settings are inherited when a new logger
is instantiated rather than just having the new logger use the
default settings.
- Removed the logger::clear() function since it no longer really
makes sense given the above change.
- Removed the get_main_thread_id() function and replaced it with the
is_dlib_thread() function.
Bug fixes:
- Pushed some things into cpp files because doing so avoids build and/or
runtime errors on some platforms.
Other:
- Changed the string_cast() function so that it will recognize the words true
and false as boolean values. Also improved the error message inside the
string_cast_error exception object.
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<old name="15.11" date="Oct 25, 2007">
New Features:
- Added the covariance() function
- Added the rgb_alpha_pixel pixel type and modified all relevant functions to
support it.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The GUI changes that are non-backwards compatible:
- The alpha parameter is now an unsigned char instead of unsigned int
and its range is now 0 to 255 instead of 0 to 256.
- The image_widget no longer has any member functions dealing with
alpha values. If you want to use alpha blending you just give it an
image that has an alpha channel. The same goes for draw_image().
- There are now more fields in the pixel_traits template. So if you were
defining your own pixels before you will need to update your pixel_traits
specializations.
Bug fixes:
- Made some functions non-inline and put some things on the stack
instead of heap. Doing this avoids some problems with certain
kinds of builds in visual studio.
Other:
- Modified the message_box() function so that it is safe to call end_program()
from within its callback event.
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<old name="15.10" date="Oct 09, 2007">
New Features:
- Modified the GUI drawing functions to take an alpha argument to allow
alpha blending.
- Added the svm_nu_cross_validate() function to perform k-fold
cross validation using the svm_nu_train() function.
- Added the boost enable_if templates
- Added the rand_float extension to the rand object.
- New matrix features:
- Added the pinv() function
- Changed round_zeros() to use the machine epsilon instead of 1e-6 as
its default epsilon.
- Modified the matrix object so that you can declare them with
a static dimension and a dynamic dimension. E.g. matrix&lt;float,0,10&gt;
is now legal and declares a matrix with a fixed number of columns(10)
and a variable number of rows.
- Added the equal() function to compare two matrices of floating
point numbers for near equality.
- Changed the matrix so that operator(long) works for both
column vectors and now also for row vectors.
- Added a set_size() and constructor that takes a single long for use in
sizing row and column vectors.
- Added the scale_columns() function
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an error in svm_nu_train() where it would incorrectly
complain of incorrect nu values for some datasets.
- Added a missing std:: qualifier at two points in the dlib/vector code that
could cause a compiler error in some instances.
Other:
- Added a term index to the documentation.
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<old name="15.9" date="Sep 25, 2007">
New Features:
- Added a nu support vector classifier training function.
- Added a multilayer neural network object.
- Added the "destructive aliasing" checks into the matrix code. Now temporary
matrices are only created during assignment if the right hand side aliases
the left hand side in a destructive way. This removes many of the previous
uses of temporary matrices.
- Made the sum() matrix function be able to sum matrices of matrices
- New matrix functions:
- acos(), asin(), atan(), ceil(), cos(), cosh(), exp(), floor(), log(),
log10(), mean(), norm(), pow(), reciprocal(), round_zeros(), sin(),
sinh(), sqrt(), tan(), tanh(), variance(), and more overloads of
uniform_matrix().
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Added missing nr() and nc() functions to the uniform_matrix() and
identity_matrix() functions.
- Forgot to add a destructor for the dynamically sized matrix resulting in a
memory leak. This is now fixed.
- Fixed various potential compile time errors
Other:
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<old name="15.8" date="Sep 11, 2007">
New Features:
- Added a copy of the boost noncopyable base class.
- added some smart pointers:
- added shared_ptr
- added weak_ptr
- added scoped_ptr
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
Other:
- Cleaned up the assert code and removed the need for the dlib/error.ccp file
- Made the matrix take better advantage of the compile time sized
dimensions when it can.
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<old name="15.7" date="Aug 26, 2007">
New Features:
- Made it so that command line options have a default conversion to bool
and the bool tells you if they are on the command line or not.
- Added an implicit conversion to a scalar to the matrix object
when it is of dimension 1x1.
- Added the thread_function object
- Added a function to compute the singular value decomposition of a matrix.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Added two new arguments to the on_request() function. They allow you to
see what HTTP headers the client sends you and to control which ones
you send back.
Bug fixes:
Other:
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<old name="15.6" date="Aug 18, 2007">
New Features:
- matrix object additions:
- Added some functions to convert between matrix and pixel objects.
- Added the clamp() function that operates on matrix objects.
- Added the sigmoid function.
- Made the matrix object capable of being sized at runtime in addition
to its original compile time static sizing capability.
- Added 3 and 4 argument versions of pointwise_multiply()
- Added the +=, -=, *= and /= operators to the matrix object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed the line numbering in the color pretty printer. Wasn't being
done correctly.
- Fixed a bug in the matrix round() function.
- Fixed some miscellaneous compile time errors
- Fixed a bug in the matrix removerc() function.
- Added some missing checks to catch invalid negative index inputs to
matrix objects.
- Fixed a bug in the matrix inv() function. It could sometimes
segfault if used on certain singular matrices
Other:
- string_cast() can now convert hex strings to integers
- You can now say myarray2d.set_size(0,0) and have it do what
you would naturally expect.
- Added some #pragma statements that tell visual studio
to link the right system libraries automatically.
So now you don't have to add these things in the
project settings anymore.
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<old name="15.5" date="Jul 12, 2007">
New Features:
- Added the set_all_logging_levels(), set_all_logging_output_streams()
functions
- Added the configure_loggers_from_file() function which allows you to
easily configure all logger objects using a textual configuration
file.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Added a workaround into the code that avoids a potential compilation
error on Mac OS X systems.
Other:
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<old name="15.4" date="Jun 30, 2007">
New Features:
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the POSIX version of the hostname_to_ip() function. It was
screwy if you asked for more than the first IP address (the same address
might be returned more than once).
- Fixed a bug in the pipe object's timeout functions. The timeouts weren't
working correctly.
Other:
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<old name="15.3" date="Jun 25, 2007">
New Features:
- Added the wait_for_num_blocked_dequeues(), enable_enqueue(),
disable_enqueue(), and is_enqueue_enabled() functions to the pipe object.
- The pipe object can now be used with a zero length buffer.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- There is no longer a pipe::kernel_1a_c typedef since the pipe
no longer has any requirements to check (due to the change of allowing
zero length buffer sizes)
Bug fixes:
Other:
- Made the ASSERT and CASSERT macros call dlib_assert_breakpoint() when they
fail. This way you can easily set a breakpoint on them in a debugging
tool by breaking on calls to this new function.
- Fixed some typos and unclear parts of the pipe spec.
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<old name="15.2" date="Jun 11, 2007">
New Features:
- Added a thread safe version of the config_reader object (in the form of an
extension to the config_reader)
- Added the wait_until_empty() function to the pipe object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed the connection::close() and listener::close() functions. They have
been replaced by destructors. To upgrade old code all you have to do is
replace statements of the form "object->close();" with "delete object;".
Both statements do exactly the same thing. However, for connection objects,
you should probably be using the close_gracefully() function instead.
Bug fixes:
- Removed a potential compile time error in the dng image format handling code.
- Fixed a bug in the bigint object. The destructor was using "delete"
when it should have been using "delete []"
- Fixed a resource leak in the POSIX version hostname_to_ip()
- Fixed a significant memory leak in memory_manager_kernel_1
- Fixed a memory leak that could occur in memory_manager_kernel_2
and memory_manager_kernel_3 when the constructor for the object
being constructed threw an exception.
- Added a missing delete statement to plug a memory leak
in the md5 computation code.
- Fixed an uninitialized variable warning from valgrind
(in lz77_buffer/lz77_buffer_kernel_2.h). I think this could
also potentially result in an error when decoding data but I'm not totally
sure. But either way it is fixed now.
- Changed a call to memcpy to memmove in the sockstreambuf_kernel_2
implementation since the copy could potentially be of overlapped memory.
Other:
- Changed the connection::read() and connection::write() functions to take
longs instead of unsigned longs as the buffer sizes. They also now
return longs instead of ints. This should be a backwards compatible change.
- Started using the valgrind tool to check for memory errors in the project and
found a few things. Very nice tool :)
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<old name="15.1" date="Jun 04, 2007">
New Features:
- Added the multithreaded_object extension to the threads API
- Added the load_dng() and save_dng() functions which can load and store
the DNG lossless compressed image format (which I just made up).
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the serialization format for bool to use a 1 byte code rather than 2
bytes. So this breaks compatibility with the old format.
Bug fixes:
- The serialization for bool didn't always work right. This is now fixed.
Other:
</old>
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<old name="15.0" date="May 16, 2007">
New Features:
- New faster version of the bigint object (bigint_kernel_2) that uses
the Fast Fourier Transform to perform multiplications.
- The base_window can now be an "undecorated" window. This new type is suitable
for making things like popup menus and the like.
- Added the on_focus_lost() event to the base_window object
- Added the on_focus_gained() event to the base_window object
- Added the on_window_moved() event to the base_window object
- Added the get_pos() function to the base_window object
- Updated the gui_widgets's drawable interface stuff to support the three
new event types and the new window type.
- Added the drawable::draw_rectangle() function
- Added serialization support for std::complex.
- Added the assign_image() function
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed the color arguments from the drawable_window object's constructor and
added a new boolean argument (if it is an undecorated window or not). This
probably won't break any code but if it does you should get a compiler error
about it.
- Made it so you must disable the events in the destructor for your
drawable gui widgets. Doing so avoids potential race conditions when
destructing drawable objects.
- Made it so that you are required to call close_window() in a window object's
destructor. This avoids a potential race condition.
Bug fixes:
- Added a workaround for a bug in MinGW that caused the regression test suite
to crash when compiled with -O3.
- Fixed a potential bug in the X Windows version of the gui_core component.
Added an extra XFlush() to end_program() because without it a
program can crash when calling end_program() in certain instances.
- The spec for the pipe object said that objects you enqueue into it
had an "initial value for their type" after the function completes. This
is incorrect, they are swapped into the pipe so they have an undefined
value afterwards. I fixed the spec for the pipe to say this.
- Fixed a bug in the font rendering functions in the gui_widgets
component. It could cause a segmentation fault sometimes.
- Fixed some potential deadlocks in the windows version of the gui_core
component.
- Fixed a bug in the rsignaler object. When you called wait() or
wait_or_timeout() it only unlocked the associated rmutex once (it could be
locked more than once and thus might cause a deadlock since the thread
calling wait() wouldn't actually unlock the mutex in this case).
- Fixed the initialize_array() function in memory_manger_kernel_3 to be
exception safe. Previously if an exception occurred while creating
an array then a resource leak was created.
Other:
- Changed the package format for the library somewhat. The examples are now
located in their own top level folder. Additionally, the HTML version of the
documentation also comes in the same archive as the source rather than in a
separate download.
- Started using major and minor version numbers rather than just major ones.
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<old name="14" date="Apr 11, 2007">
New Features:
- Added operator&lt;&lt; and operator&gt;&gt; iostream operators to the vector object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the xml_parser's document_handler interface:
made empty element tags (&lt;like_this/&gt;) trigger the end_element() callback
and removed the is_empty bool from start_element().
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a potential race condition between the destruction of the thread pool
and the "program ending handlers" stuff.
Other:
- Made the xml parser more robust to different types of new line characters.
- Modified the source slightly so that it works with mingw.
</old>
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<old name="13" date="Mar 01, 2007">
New Features:
- The config_reader is now enumerable.
- Added the image_widget gui object.
- Added nr() and nc() to the array2d object.
- Added the shutdown_connection() function to the iostream extension
to the server object.
- Added the timer_kernel_2 implementation which is a version of the timer object
that is more efficient in its allocation of threads.
- Added the timeout object.
- There is now a CMakeLists.txt file located in the dlib folder. See
dlib/examples/CMakeLists.txt and dlib/test/CMakeLists.txt for examples
that use CMake to build projects using this library.
- Added the register_program_ending_handler() function to the threading API.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Removed the config_reader::get_blocks() function. Use the
new enumerable interface for the config_reader instead.
- The array2d object now uses longs instead of unsigned longs to report
its dimensions and access its elements.
- Added a uint64 to the on_connect() callback in the iostream
extension to the server object.
- timer::set_delay_time() now throws and timer::start() now may throw
std::bad_alloc.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in end_program(). In X Windows it might not cause the
program to end right away if it was called from outside the event
handling thread.
- Fixed a bug in the implementation of the timeout part of the
close_gracefully() function.
Other:
- The library now works on HP-UX
- The regression test suite now has command line arguments that
enable tests to send debug messages to a file.
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<old name="12" date="Feb 07, 2007">
New Features:
- The http server extension now supports the POST HTTP method.
- The attribute list object in the xml_parser is now enumerable.
- Added the threaded object extension
- Added the uintn.h file which defines fixed sized unsigned integral types.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Renamed the on_get() callback in the http extension to the server object to
on_request()
- Removed the network byte order functions from the sockets api. (They are still
really there though since they come from actual OS header files. But
officially they have been replaced by the byte_orderer component).
- Renamed dlib/uint64.h to dlib/uintn.h
Bug fixes:
Other:
- The command line parser will now let you declare long named options with -
characters in them.
- Made it so you can use the COMPILE_TIME_ASSERT macros anywhere rather than
just inside functions.
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<old name="11" date="Dec 27, 2006">
New Features:
- For dlib::matrix
- Added the tmp() function
- Added optimized specializations of inv() and det() for 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 and
4x4 matrices.
- Added the removerc() function
- Sockets related
- Added the connect() function
- Added the is_ip_address() function.
- Added the close_gracefully() function
- Added the iostream extension to the server object.
- Added the http extension to the server object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the cpp_tokenizer to not convert characters to their html form.
Bug fixes:
- Removed some potential compile time errors. See the change log for details.
Other:
- Improved the web site
- Added some more example code
- Added more colors to cpp_pretty_printer_kernel_1.
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<old name="10" date="Nov 28, 2006">
New Features:
- std::map is now serializable
- Added the matrix object and a bunch of supporting code.
- Added the list_box graphical widget
- Added the fill_rect_with_vertical_gradient() function to the
drawable interfaces list of drawing helpers.
- Added the open_file_box() function which provides a simple file chooser.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Made timestamper::get_timestamp() be a const function like it should. Fixes
some compile errors.
- Fixed a bug in the font::draw_string() function. It didn't redraw
multi-line strings right.
- Fixed a bug in the scroll_bar object that would cause a compile
error if you tried to call its width() function.
- Fixed a bug in the array_kernel_1 object. It would cause a segmentation fault
when used sometimes.
Other:
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<old name="9" date="Oct 23, 2006">
New Features:
- Added the following image transformation functions:
- Added the equalize_histogram() function
- Added the spatially_filter_image() function
- Added the threshold_image() function
- Added the binary_dilation() function
- Added the binary_erosion() function
- Added the binary_open() function
- Added the binary_close() function
- Added the binary_intersection() function
- Added the binary_difference() function
- Added the binary_complement() function
- Added the clear(), load_from() and default constructor back into the
config_reader.
- Made the member_function_pointer copyable and also added operator== and !=
to it.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Made the vector object templated so you can use types other than double with it.
But now you
have to specify what type you want to use which is slightly different.
- The asc_pair_remover and asc_remover abstract classes now take a third template
argument. I highly doubt this effects any code outside the library but it is
possible.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the base_window::set_size() function. If you specified a size
of (0,0) it caused your program to error out. This has now been fixed.
- Fixed a bug in the scroll_bar widget.
- Fixed a bug in save_bmp(). For some image sizes it would output a goofy
looking skewed image.
Other:
- Switched everything that used to call operator&lt; directly to instead use
std::less or to take a template argument that provides a compare functor that
defaults to std::less.
</old>
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<old name="8" date="Oct 03, 2006">
New Features:
- Added the assign_pixel() function
- Added the hsi pixel type
- Added the save_bmp() function
- Added the static_switch template
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed how the config_reader works. It now has a more powerful syntax and
improved interface. Converting any old code to use the new version should be
simple since the new file syntax is very nearly backwards compatible with the
old syntax. (i.e. You probably won't have to change anything about your
config files)
- Renamed the dlib/image_loader.h file to dlib/image_io.h since it now includes
the image saver stuff.
- Renamed the pixel struct to rgb_pixel
- Renamed pixel_traits::color to pixel_traits::rgb
- Renamed pixel_traits::scalar to pixel_traits::grayscale
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the load_bmp() function. It would load 24bit bmp files
incorrectly.
- Changed the logger so that it won't deadlock if you write something similar to
my_log &lt;&lt; LINFO &lt;&lt; function_that_also_logs();. Although this is a
dumb thing to do. But even so, it shouldn't deadlock.
- Fixed a potential linking problem with the vector object.
Other:
- I decided I'm not going to support Borland v5.5.1 anymore. There are just too
many bugs in this compiler. It is very old at this point so I don't see this
being a big deal.
- Made the drawable::draw_image() and load_bmp() functions able to handle images
of any type of pixel.
- Pulled the imaging, algorithmic and metaprogramming stuff out of the
miscellaneous section of the web page and gave them all their own sections.
</old>
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<old name="7" date="Sep 18, 2006">
New Features:
- Added a logger header that prints the date and time.
- Added the LTRACE logging level
- Added a buffered implementation of sockstreambuf.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the specs to say that sockstreambuf may be buffered.
sockstreambuf_kernel_1 is still just as it always has been though. So all old
code will still work just as it always has. But all the same, the specs have
been changed and now allow for an implementation that is not 100% backwards
compatible.
- rand_kernel_2 now emits a different string of random numbers.
Bug fixes:
- Changed the logger object's implementation to not try to register
a thread end handler for the main program thread anymore. This was
technically a bug according to the spec but it actually did end up
working the way it was supposed to. But even so, it shouldn't have
been doing that.
- Changed binary_search_tree_kernel_1 so that it avoids a bug in the version of
gcc on SuSE Enterprise Linux 9.
- Fixed a bug in the rand_kernel_2 implementation. It wasn't giving good
random numbers.
Other:
- Modified the code so that you don't get any warnings when -Wall is used with
GCC.
</old>
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<old name="6" date="Aug 30, 2006">
New Features:
- Added the ASSERT_ARE_SAME_TYPE macro
- Added the is_same_type template
- Added the get_main_thread_id() function to the threading API
- Added the thread_specific_data extension to the threading API
- Added the logger object.
- Added the auto_unlock object to the threading API.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
Bug fixes:
Other:
- Added an example that is specifically about using threads
- Added two examples about using the logger object
</old>
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<old name="5" date="Aug 18, 2006">
New Features:
- Added the memory_manager_stateless object and two implementations of it.
- Added the MACOSX macro to dlib/platform.h
- Added a templated version of create_new_thread() that allow you to start
a thread with a member function.
- Added the register_thread_end_handler() function to the threading kernel API.
- Added memory_manager_kernel_3
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Changed the meaning of the memory_manager_global::get_number_of_allocations()
function because the previous definition of it didn't really make sense for
this object.
- Changed the threading API to wait for all outstanding threads to terminate
before allowing the program to end. It used to just let the OS trash those
threads when main() ended but this isn't a safe or portable thing to do. I
used to assume the user would make sure all their threads were done and had
cleaned up whatever they were doing before main() ended but this is too much
of a burden on the end user. So now the library will wait for your threads to
end. You still need to have some way of telling them it is time to stop though.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a minor bug in dlib/timer/timer_kernel_1.h. Its implementation was
slightly off according to the specification of a timer object.
Other:
- The byte_order object is now capable of flipping entire arrays.
- Made it so that the ENABLE_ASSERTS macro is defined whenever ASSERT is
on.
- Made the array container use the memory managers.
</old>
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<old name="4" date="Jul 18, 2006">
New Features:
- Added functions to explicitly convert to/from little and big endian to the
byte_order object.
- Added the allocate_array() and deallocate_array() functions to the
memory_manager.
- Created the memory_manager_global object
- Added the remove_last_in_order(), position_enumerator() and
remove_current_element() functions to the binary_search_tree object.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- I put an #error directive in the old GUI component to notify anyone
trying to use it that it is deprecated. I will be removing it from the
library in a few months.
- Switched the reference_counter object back to not using the memory_manager.
I realized it isn't safe for this object to use the memory_manager since
it could result in memory_managers freeing each other's allocations.
- I redefined the pixel_traits template. It is now a lot simpler and more
convenient.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a minor bug in dlib/rand/rand_kernel_2.cpp
Other:
- Added some more compile time checks to the byte_orderer object.
- Changed some includes and preprocessor macros around a little so now
everything but the GUI stuff compiles in mac OS X.
- Added inclusion guards to all the .cpp files
- Added the all_gui.cpp and all_console.cpp files. They
include all the .cpp files you need to make gui and
console applications respectively into one file.
- Made more containers use the memory_manager.
</old>
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<old name="3" date="May 06, 2006">
New Features:
- Added the enqueue_or_timeout() and dequeue_or_timeout() functions
to the pipe object.
- Gave the mouse_tracker the ability to display the mouse position
relative to a user selected point.
- Added the message_box() function to the gui_widgets component.
- Gave the label widget the ability to draw newlines in strings.
- added the close_window() and is_closed() methods to the base_window
object.
- Added the rsignaler extension to the threading API.
- You can now control the thread pool timeout time by setting the
DLIB_THREAD_POOL_TIMEOUT #define.
- Added the get_from_clipboard() and put_on_clipboard() functions
to the gui_core component.
- Added the stop_and_wait() function to the timer object.
- Added the trigger_user_event() function and on_user_event() event
to the base_window object. This new event is also forwarded
to drawable interfaces inside the receiving window.
- Added the wrap_around() function to the named_rectangle widget.
- Added the top(), left(), right(), bottom(), width() and height()
functions to the drawable interface.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Made the radio_button and check_box widgets pass references to themselves
when they call their click handlers.
- Switched the sync_extension to use the rmutex and rsignaler objects
rather than the normal non-reentrant ones. ( Chances are that old
code that used this will still compile fine anyway. )
- Changed the return type of rand::get_random_number() to be an
unsigned char. I also changed both the implementations of
rand because they weren't very good at all.
- Changed the functions related to drawing strings in the font class.
- Changed the drawable's rectangle to default to being empty
rather than being a single point. Most code should not notice
the difference.
Bug fixes:
- The event handlers in gui_widgets/drawable.h were private. They
should be protected. This is now fixed.
- Fixed a bug in the way the scroll_bar was drawn when it was
the HORIZONTAL type.
- Changed how the thread pool destructs itself when the program
is ending. Previously it was possible to get an error on
NetBSD when the program was ending. This is now fixed.
- The functions related to setting the jump size in the scroll_bar
widget were private. They are now public.
- There was a bug in the MS Windows version of the gui_core component
where the members of the base_window would not work if called from
within the on_window_close() event. This has now been fixed.
- Made the set_pos() function work right for the mouse_tracker widget.
- Fixed a bug in the base64 object where the string "" could potentially
be decoded incorrectly.
- Made the global swap function for crc32_kernel_1 inline. This fixes a
potential linker error.
- Fixed some potential deadlocking that could occur while using the
gui widgets.
Other:
- I moved all the regression tests into the dlib/test folder and
made a nice driver program to run all of them.
- I have been using the sourceforge compile farms to test the library
on various platforms. It now works for Solaris and some of the BSDs
in addition to Linux and Windows.
</old>
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<old name="2" date="Apr 08, 2006">
New Features:
- Added the array_expand extension to the array object.
- Added the cmd_line_parser_check extension to the command line parser.
- Added the pipe object.
- All applicable container classes now use the memory_manager component for
their memory allocation.
- New implementations of the memory_manager object.
- Added the copy_functor class.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- Moved the wrap_string, narrow, and string_cast functions
to a new file. You now have to include dlib/string.h to get
them. (This makes a bunch of other things work right in gcc 2.95)
- Renamed the _L macro to _dT
- Removed the scopy class
- Simplified the interface to the memory manager. It is basically the same
though.
- Removed the max_size() methods from the hash_table and binary_search_tree
objects.
- Removed the T_is_POD template arguments from the hash_table and
binary_search_tree objects.
- Simplified the template arguments to all checking components and extensions.
They now take the class they are to extend or check as their only template
argument. This only affects you if you haven't been using the kernel_nx
typedefs.
Bug fixes:
Other:
- I changed a few things around and now a majority of the library
again compiles under gcc 2.95. But some things don't and I currently
don't plan on making them work because it involves hackish workarounds
of 2.95's bugs.
- Changed the compress_stream_kernel_1 object so that it will detect data
corruptions better. This change will prevent it from correctly decompressing
data that was compressed with a previous version and has an uncompressed size
greater than about 20,000 bytes.
- There is a new cpp file you need to compile: dlib/error.cpp
- Moved all the regression testing stuff into the dlib/test folder and made
a nicer test driver to run them.
</old>
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<old name="1" date="Mar 19, 2006">
New Features:
- Created the byte_orderer object.
- Created the mouse_tracker gui widget.
- The sliding_buffer object is now enumerable and serializable.
- Added the get_filesystem_roots() function to the dir_nar component.
- Added the create_directory() function to the misc_api component.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The ASSERT macro is now only enabled if DEBUG or ENABLE_ASSERTS
is defined.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a minor bug in the cmd_line_parser object. If you gave
an option such as --option=arg when option didn't take any
arguments it could hang your program.
- Fixed a bug in wait_or_timeout() in the posix version of the threading
api. The time to wait for was being calculated incorrectly and could
result in an excessive number of spurious returns.
- Fixed a minor bug in the on_keydown() event for windows.
I had it set such that the shift and ctrl bools would be false
if they were the actual keys being pressed. This isn't what the
specs say should happen but I had a comment in the windows code
that made it clear that I did it on purpose. Go figure :)
This is now fixed.
Other:
- Improved the cpp_tokenizer object's ability to recognize numerical
constants.
- Improved the text_field gui widget.
- There are now two assert macros. One called ASSERT
and another CASSERT. They both do the same thing but ASSERT
is only enabled when DEBUG or ENABLE_ASSERTS is defined.
All the old ASSERT statements were changed to CASSERT statements.
</old>
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<old name="2006-02-23.01">
New Features:
- Added array_kernel_2 which is a simple layer on top of a C array.
- Added the tabbed_display GUI widget
- Added the widget_group GUI widget
- Added the named_rectangle GUI widget
- Added the pixel_traits template
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The default maximum size for an array object is now 0 rather than
20,000.
Bug fixes:
Other:
- made the cpp_pretty_printer a little better about how it handles
C style code. Also added support for /*!A html_anchor_name !*/
style comments.
</old>
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<old name="2006-01-31.02">
New Features:
- Created the array2d object.
- Created the base64 object.
- Created the pixel struct.
- Created the load_bmp() function which can load a BMP image file
into an array2d object of pixels.
- Created the drawable::draw_image() function
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- In the drawable interface I made the z order a long rather
than unsigned long.
- The cpp_tokenizer object now has a NUMBER token type.
- removed the get_ prefix from functions in the cmd_line_parser
and cmd_line_parser_option objects. Also changed the
cmd_line_parser_option::operator[] function to a normal member
function called argument().
Bug fixes:
Other:
- cpp_pretty_printer now colors numeric literals a shade of yellow.
</old>
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<old name="2006-01-15.03">
New Features:
- Created the member_function_pointer object.
- Created the button_action object.
- Created the arrow_button object.
- Created the check_box object.
- Created the radio_button object.
- Created the scroll_bar object.
- More drawing functions to draw various things
onto a canvas object.
- Added enable/disable functions to the
drawable interface.
Non-Backwards Compatible Changes:
- The gui widgets are no longer templated at the
class level.
- The drawable object's constructor now takes a
bit set rather than a bunch of bools to tell it
which events to enable.
- I changed the names of some of the functions in the
gui_widgets component so that they all reflected a
uniform naming style.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a minor bug in the cpp_tokenizer.
- Minor bug in the timer object. See change log for
details.
Other:
- Made the timer object a little more robust
</old>
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</release_notes>
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