Release Notes

V3.0.1 Change Logs (21/06/2022)

  • General

    • New version (1.1) of the Metavision License with updated information about the Source offer

  • OpenEB

    • Fixed Github Action CI

  • Documentation

    • Added list of supported cameras for OpenEB

    • Added some example videos in Core ML sample guides

    • Added missing steps for FFMPEG in the install guides

    • Fixed Trigger In channel ID for EVK3 Gen4.1

V3.0.0 Change Logs (31/05/2022)

  • General

    • Source code of Prophesee plugins is now distributed with OpenEB for devices based on Gen3.1, Gen4.1 and the latest IMX636 sensors

    • Full Python API and C++ API & samples are now distributed in pre-compiled Metavision SDK packages with free license

    • Metavision Studio can now be installed using dedicated packages for simplicity

    • Dedicated packages for pre-compiled Prophesee device plugins have been discontinued; these plugins are still installed using the packages for Metavision SDK or Metavision Studio

  • OpenEB

    • General changes

      • Introduced source code of plugins for devices based on Gen3.1, Gen4.1 and IMX636 sensors

      • Removed RAW plugins used to replay RAW recordings (replaced by the live device plugins)

      • New Core ML module open-sourcing core features for event-based machine learning

        • video_to_event simulator to generate events from frame-based data, including a GPU version to enable integrating event simulation directly in the training pipeline

        • event_to_video model plus inference and training pipelines, enabling reconstruction of grayscale data from events

    • Fixes

      • metavision_viewer_android sample in Driver module is not crashing anymore when loading a RAW recording

      • Incomplete RAW index files caused by app interruption during the generation is now detected and handled correctly

  • Metavision SDK

    • Full Python API and C++ API & samples are now distributed in pre-compiled Metavision SDK packages with free license

    • Upgraded the versions of the required dependencies for Python on Ubuntu and Windows and for C++ on Windows

    • Renamed show_extrinsics sample in Calibration module into show_calibrated_poses

    • Changed metavision_detection_and_tracking_pipeline app in the ML module into a sample to make deployment more flexible

  • Metavision Studio

    • Added tooltips and links to pages in the online documentation

    • Added an “auto” accumulation time option inferring accumulation time from the chosen framerate

    • Region of interest can now be defined interactively on display using the pointer

    • Interactively setting the threshold of the Event Trail Filter module does not disable silently this module anymore

    • Negative bias values can now be correctly entered using the keyboard

    • Various improvements of UI/UX

V2.3.2 Change Logs (31/03/2022)

  • OpenEB

    • Fixed pytest of Core module that relied on a recording outside datasets/openeb/ archive

  • Prophesee Devices

    • New feature

    • Bug fixes

      • Fixed bug preventing EVK3 Gen31 to stream when mode changed with set_mode_master and set_mode_standalone

  • Documentation

    • Enhanced user guide of Metavision Studio

    • Fixed minor errors in install guides of Metavision Essentials on Ubuntu and Windows

    • Added information on the classes of the C++ API in the Python bindings documentation

V2.3.1 Change Logs (31/01/2022)

  • OpenEB

    • Changes

      • Deprecated naming for classes TTrailFilterAlgorithm and TMostRecentTimestampBuffer, replaced by TrailFilterAlgorithmT and MostRecentTimestampBufferT.

      • Clarified documentation and standalone sample implementation for EVT3 decoder

    • Bug fixes

      • Fixed bug resulting in non-monotonic timestamps returned by successive calls to I_Decoder::get_last_timestamp() with some EVT3 recordings

      • Fixed behavior of TMostRecentTimestampBuffer::generate_img_time_surface() sometimes leading to erroneous results

  • Metavision Studio

    • Changes

      • Added dedicated support for IMX636 in Metavision Studio

      • Date time string used to name recordings is now using local-time instead of UTC time

      • Various improvements to UI

    • Bug fixes

      • Fixed bug resulting in last events in a recording to never be displayed

  • Metavision SDK

    • Python sample for ground plane calibration is now available in Essentials offer for Calibration module

  • Prophesee Devices

    • Introduced new plugin for IMX636-based EVK3 device

  • Documentation

    • Fixed the imports of EventBbox in detection_and_tracking notebook

    • Added torchmetrics, seaborn & sk-video to python_requirement.txt

    • Updated download links for CUDA 10.2 LibTorch to a fixed version

    • Fixed typos in the classification tutorial

V2.3.0 Change Logs (11/10/2021)

  • General

    • Released new firmware for EVK2, upgrade is required (contact us to get access to the page)

    • Upgraded required pybind11 version from 2.4.3 to 2.6.0 when building from sources

    • Reorganized the test dataset archive to enable partial downloads

    • Reviewed the Ubuntu packages architecture for Essentials. The install command is now sudo apt -y install metavision-essentials, which includes the Python packages for the default Python version of your system. For other Python versions, you can also specific packages, e.g. package metavision-essentials-python3.7 for Python 3.7.

  • OpenEB

    • New features

      • Added Github Action CI pipeline on OpenEB repository (https://github.com/prophesee-ai/openeb)

      • Introduced new RAW plugins, adding capability to use RAW recording as input to processing pipelines

      • Introduced new RAW recordings seek capability, in beta version

      • Introduced new adaptive-rate event-stream slicing adapting event iteration to scene dynamics

      • Added Python sample demonstrating usage of various event-based formats (CSV, ROSbag, AEDAT) as input to Python pipelines

    • Updates

      • Added access to the ERC API from the Camera class

      • Moved definition of EventBbox from ML module to OpenEB and introduced EventBboxNpyReader class to handle various input formats

      • Added possibility to change default color palette in Python binding of PeriodicFrameGenerationAlgorithm

      • Renamed Gen4.1 FO bias from bias_fo_p to bias_fo

    • Bug fixes

      • Metavision::Window does not crash anymore when requesting window sizes larger than the screen resolution

  • Metavision SDK

    • New features

      • Introduced Metavision Studio, a user-friendly viewer for live cameras and recordings

      • CV Module

        • Introduced new C++ and Python samples for data-rate evaluation

      • ML Module

        • Introduced new toolbox including training, inference and metrics for supervised classification

        • Introduced new model and pipeline demonstrating rock/paper/scissor gesture recognition

      • Calibration module

    • Changes

      • Machine Learning

        • Added possibility in the detection & tracking pipeline in ML module to update box tracklet coordinates after each inference

      • Analytics

        • Optimized runtime of PSM algorithm in Analytics module

    • Bug fixes

      • The Python bindings of the AntiFlickerAlgorithm can now be used correctly

  • Prophesee Devices

    • New features

      • Added support for trigger/sync mode, temperature and illumination to EVK3 Gen4.1

    • Changes

      • Released new shared firmware for EVK3 Gen3.1/Gen4.1.

      • Released new EVK2 Processing System Linux Image for EVK2 version 1.6.0 (contact us to get access to the page)

      • Enforced min/max value range in biases for Gen3.1 and Gen4.1 sensors

      • Reworked EVK2 and EVK3 devices discovery and builder

    • Bug fixes

  • Documentation

    • Enhancement of installation and getting started pages

    • Enhancement of Python and C++ guides for SDK modules

    • Clarification of biases and triggers pages

V2.2.2 Change Logs (26/07/2021)

  • Cameras supported

    • New plugin for Prophesee EVK3 Gen4.1 camera with limited set of features (streaming, biases, ROI). This plugin does not support Monitoring events for Illumination and Temperature. External Trigger mechanism (Master/Slave mode, Trigger In, Trigger Out) is not yet supported as well.

  • Bug fixes

    • Machine Learning

      • Python package metavision_ml now deployed by Windows Essentials installer

      • The eval_coco_kpi sample does not fail anymore when no box is evaluated

    • Analytics

      • Vibration estimation is now using correct color map

      • Python Sample metavision_jet_monitoring_calibration now imports all the necessary modules

    • Miscellaneous

      • Enhancement of XYT Designer sample to show frame view next to events view

      • The install step after compilation now works without error on Python packages deployment path

  • Documentation

    • Addition of an USB extension cable reference in the FAQ

    • Additional information in the FAQ about IMU deprecation

V2.2.1 Change Logs (11/06/2021)

  • Bug fixes

    • Prophesee Camera plugins

      • The ERC facility setter functions now saturates to a device-dependent maximum value

      • The AFK facility setter functions now preserves the anterior enable/disable status

      • The stop parameter in the set_frequency AFK facility function is now correctly taken into account

      • The initial event burst occurring in some situations with Gen3.1 devices is now fixed

    • Machine Learning

      • The Optical Flow model now directly predicts in absolute pixel values

      • The detection models have been renamed to clarify their specificities

      • The HDF5Iterator now correctly stops at the end of the input file and correctly supports the start_ts argument

      • The train_detection sample now loads the right classes in finetuning mode and correctly supports the just_val flag

      • The export_detector sample can now be run from the build directory without installing first

      • The viz_video_to_event_simulator sample now correctly supports implicit input height & width

      • The colormaps used for visual flow visualizations are now consistent

    • Miscellaneous

      • The default installation path for Windows when building from source code with the deployment step is now C:\Program Files\Prophesee

  • Documentation

V2.2.0 Change Logs (29/03/2021)

V2.1.0 Change Logs (22/09/2020)

  • Platforms supported

    • Ubuntu 16.04 is not supported anymore

    • Python 3 support in Metavision Designer (instead of Python 2)

  • New features

    • New Metavision SDK samples & applications

    • New Metavision Designer samples

      • Analytics samples: metavision_counting.py, metavision_generic_tracking.py

      • Metavision HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) with documented API, Prophesee camera plugins and code samples

      • Metavision Player (to visualize and record data streamed by event-based vision system)

    • Documentation online (no more delivered along with the software)

  • Deprecated features & software

    • EM events

    • IMU events

    • Prophesee Player (replaced by new Metavision Player software)

    • SDK samples using the engine “_engine_sample”

  • Changes in existing features

    • Multiple changes in the SDK and Designer API

      • SDK API: new modules organization in base, core, driver, cv

      • Designer API: new modules organization in base, core, engine, cv

    • SDK samples are not delivered as precompiled binaries (now, need to compile them)

    • SDK and Designer samples renaming

    • Simplifying datasets delivery (now, they can be downloaded from the public documentation)

    • ObjectPool moved from Metavision SDK Core module to Metavision SDK Base module. Use #include “metavision/sdk/base/utils/object_pool.h instead.