Release Notes

V2.2.2 Change Logs

  • Cameras supported:

    • New plugin for Prophesee EVK3 Gen41 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

  • 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_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

V2.1.0 Change Logs

  • 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.