cwi-dis/cwipc: exp-jack-github-release-7

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[unreleased] Added Changed

• (kinect) cameraconfig is now independent of whether we use map_color_to_depth or not
• (kinect) implemented function generate_point_cloud_v2 which uses a lookup table to compute the pointcloud.
• (kinect) opencv is now used for filtering the depth map: Thresholds + erosion. much faster.
• (macos) MacOS 10.15 is now the target platform: 10.14 is no longer easily supported in brew.
• Build process, CMakefiles and versioning have been streamlined.
• Github is now the primary hosting platform and Gitlab is considered a mirror.

Removed [7.1] - 2022-01-26

Backwards compatible, so only CWI_API_VERSION has been increased.

Added

• cwipc_crop added

[7.0] - 2022-01-05

This release is not backwards compatible with older releases, therefore CWIPC_API_VERSION and CWIPC_API_VERSION_OLD have been updated.

Added

• Compatible with Python 3.9 (mainly DLL search path fixes for Windows)
• Added --custom_filter to most tools to allow applying a filter to each pointcloud
• Added skeleton data renderer to cwipc_view
• cwipc_enc_perftest (source only) helps debugging codec performance issues
• Kinect skeleton parameters can be specified in cameraconfig.xml

Changed

• natural pointcloud orientation has changed: positive z-axis now points forward from subject point of view. This is in line with standard practice (camera looks in negative z direction). Incompatible change.
• tileinfo structure changed. Incompatible change.
• K4ABT 1.1.0 supported
• Got rid of abort() calls in capturers
• Code resutructuring in cwipc_codec
• Various other bug fixes

Removed [6.4] - 2021-10-29 Added

• Added compressed pointcloud support to cwipc_grab and --playback.
• Added methods cwipc_colormap, cwipc_tilemap and cwipc_join.

Changed

• Minor bug fixes.

[6.3.2] - 2021-10-14 Changed

• Compressed pointclouds could lose their pointsize, causing them to be rendered with tiny size. Fixed.
• Changes for debugging cwipc itself, see readme.md for details.

[6.3.1] - 2021-09-26 Changed

• Compatible with PCL 1.12

[6.3] - 2021-08-17 Added

• .pdb files included on Windows, so stack traces and debugging are better.
• implemented disabled config variable for most capturers.

Changed

• cwipc_encodergroup optimised and parallelised: can now handle 16-stream tiled multi-quality encoded pointcloud streams at 15fps (given decent hardware).

Removed [6.2] - 2021-08-05 Added

• Parallelized encodergroup if more than 1 output required.

Changed

• fixed rebuild issue.
• Realsense and offline grabbers now also support disabled parameter in cameraconfig.

[6.1] - 2021-07-21 Added

• Allow disabling kinect camers with enabled="0" in cameraconfig.json.
• Added outlier filter.

Changed

• Fixed skeleton API.

[6.0] - 2021-06-21

First unified release of cwipc_util, cwipc_realsense2, cwipc_codec and cwipc_kinect.

Dual-homed at https://gitlab.com/VRTogether_EU/cwipc/cwipc and https://github.com/cwi-dis/cwipc.

MIT license added.

Added

• New utility cwipc_forward to forward pointcloud streams over net (direct sockets or DASH using bin2dash)
• cwipc_view and friend can receive pointcloud streams over the net (direct sockets or DASH using signals-unity-bridge)

Changed

• Fixes and additions to utilities, including support for Kinect skeleton and RGBD data.
• Unified build procedure using cmake.