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+<h2>2.0</h2>
+<p class="Blurb"><i>(September, 2009)</i></p>
+
+<pre>
+>>> New functionality, features:
+
+ - General:
+ * Installation package on Windows has been fixed,
+ MinGW is used for precompiled binaries
+ (see the release notes on the SourceForge site)
+
+ * autotools-based build has been repaired
+
+ - MLL:
+ * The new-style class aliases (e.g. cv::SVM ~ CvSVM) and the train/predict methods,
+ taking cv::Mat in addition to CvMat, have been added. So now MLL can be used
+ more seamlesly with the rest of the restyled OpenCV.
+
+>>> Bug fixes:
+
+ - A _lot_ of bugs present in 2.0 beta have been fixed, see the OpenCV bug tracker
+ http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22870&atid=376677
+ Thanks to everybody who submitted bug reports and/or patches!
+</pre>
+
+<hr><h2>2.0 beta</h2>
+<p class="Blurb"><i>(September, 2009)</i></p>
+
+<pre>
+>>> New functionality, features: <<<
+
+ - General:
+ * The brand-new C++ interface for most of OpenCV functionality
+ (cxcore, cv, highgui) has been introduced.
+ Generally it means that you will need to do less coding to achieve the same results;
+ it brings automatic memory management and many other advantages.
+ See the C++ Reference section in opencv/doc/opencv.pdf and opencv/include/opencv/*.hpp.
+ The previous interface is retained and still supported.
+
+ * The source directory structure has been reogranized; now all the external headers are placed
+ in the single directory on all platforms.
+
+ * The primary build system is CMake, http://www.cmake.org (2.6.x is the preferable version).
+ + In Windows package the project files for Visual Studio, makefiles for MSVC,
+ Borland C++ or MinGW are note supplied anymore; please, generate them using CMake.
+
+ + In MacOSX the users can generate project files for Xcode.
+
+ + In Linux and any other platform the users can generate project files for
+ cross-platform IDEs, such as Eclipse or Code Blocks,
+ or makefiles for building OpenCV from a command line.
+
+ * OpenCV repository has been converted to Subversion, hosted at SourceForge:
+ http://opencvlibrary.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opencvlibrary
+ where the very latest snapshot is at
+ http://opencvlibrary.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opencvlibrary/trunk,
+ and the more or less stable version can be found at
+ http://opencvlibrary.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opencvlibrary/tags/latest_tested_snapshot
+
+ - CXCORE, CV, CVAUX:
+
+ * CXCORE now uses Lapack (CLapack 3.1.1.1 in OpenCV 2.0) in its various linear algebra functions
+ (such as solve, invert, SVD, determinant, eigen etc.) and the corresponding old-style functions
+ (cvSolve, cvInvert etc.)
+
+ * Lots of new feature and object detectors and descriptors have been added
+ (there is no documentation on them yet), see cv.hpp and cvaux.hpp:
+
+ + FAST - the fast corner detector, submitted by Edward Rosten
+
+ + MSER - maximally stable extremal regions, submitted by Liu Liu
+
+ + LDetector - fast circle-based feature detector by V. Lepetit (a.k.a. YAPE)
+
+ + Fern-based point classifier and the planar object detector -
+ based on the works by M. Ozuysal and V. Lepetit
+
+ + One-way descriptor - a powerful PCA-based feature descriptor,
+ (S. Hinterstoisser, O. Kutter, N. Navab, P. Fua, and V. Lepetit,
+ "Real-Time Learning of Accurate Patch Rectification").
+ Contributed by Victor Eruhimov
+
+ + Spin Images 3D feature descriptor - based on the A. Johnson PhD thesis;
+ implemented by Anatoly Baksheev
+
+ + Self-similarity features - contributed by Rainer Leinhart
+
+ + HOG people and object detector - the reimplementation of Navneet Dalal framework
+ (http://pascal.inrialpes.fr/soft/olt/). Currently, only the detection part is ported,
+ but it is fully compatible with the original training code.
+ See cvaux.hpp and opencv/samples/c/peopledetect.cpp.
+
+ + Extended variant of the Haar feature-based object detector - implemented by Maria Dimashova.
+ It now supports Haar features and LBPs (local binary patterns);
+ other features can be more or less easily added
+
+ + Adaptive skin detector and the fuzzy meanshift tracker - contributed by Farhad Dadgostar,
+ see cvaux.hpp and opencv/samples/c/adaptiveskindetector.cpp
+
+ * The new traincascade application complementing the new-style HAAR+LBP object detector has been added.
+ See opencv/apps/traincascade.
+
+ * The powerful library for approximate nearest neighbor search FLANN by Marius Muja
+ is now shipped with OpenCV, and the OpenCV-style interface to the library
+ is included into cxcore. See cxcore.hpp and opencv/samples/c/find_obj.cpp
+
+ * The bundle adjustment engine has been contributed by PhaseSpace; see cvaux.hpp
+
+ * Added dense optical flow estimation function (based on the paper
+ "Two-Frame Motion Estimation Based on Polynomial Expansion" by G. Farnerback).
+ See cv::calcOpticalFlowFarneback and the C++ documentation
+
+ * Image warping operations (resize, remap, warpAffine, warpPerspective)
+ now all support bicubic and Lanczos interpolation.
+
+ * Most of the new linear and non-linear filtering operations (filter2D, sepFilter2D, erode, dilate ...)
+ support arbitrary border modes and can use the valid image pixels outside of the ROI
+ (i.e. the ROIs are not "isolated" anymore), see the C++ documentation.
+
+ * The data can now be saved to and loaded from GZIP-compressed XML/YML files, e.g.:
+ cvSave("a.xml.gz", my_huge_matrix);
+
+ - MLL:
+ * Added the Extremely Random Trees that train super-fast,
+ comparing to Boosting or Random Trees (by Maria Dimashova).
+
+ * The decision tree engine and based on it classes
+ (Decision Tree itself, Boost, Random Trees)
+ have been reworked and now:
+ + they consume much less memory (up to 200% savings)
+ + the training can be run in multiple threads (when OpenCV is built with OpenMP support)
+ + the boosting classification on numerical variables is especially
+ fast because of the specialized low-overhead branch.
+
+ * mltest has been added. While far from being complete,
+ it contains correctness tests for some of the MLL classes.
+
+ - HighGUI:
+ * [Linux] The support for stereo cameras (currently Videre only) has been added.
+ There is now uniform interface for capturing video from two-, three- ... n-head cameras.
+
+ * Images can now be compressed to or decompressed from buffers in the memory,
+ see the C++ HighGUI reference manual
+
+ - Documentation:
+ * The reference manual has been converted from HTML to LaTeX (by James Bowman and Caroline Pantofaru),
+ so there is now:
+ + opencv.pdf for reading offline
+ + and the online up-to-date documentation
+ (as the result of LaTeX->Sphinx->HTML conversion) available at
+ http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/index.html
+
+ - Samples, misc.:
+ * Better eye detector has been contributed by Shiqi Yu,
+ see opencv/data/haarcascades/*[lefteye|righteye]*.xml
+ * sample LBP cascade for the frontal face detection
+ has been created by Maria Dimashova,
+ see opencv/data/lbpcascades/lbpcascade_frontalface.xml
+ * Several high-quality body parts and facial feature detectors
+ have been contributed by Modesto Castrillon-Santana,
+ see opencv/data/haarcascades/haarcascade_mcs*.xml
+
+>>> Optimization:
+ * Many of the basic functions and the image processing operations
+ (like arithmetic operations, geometric image transformations, filtering etc.)
+ have got SSE2 optimization, so they are several times faster.
+
+ - The model of IPP support has been changed. Now IPP is supposed to be
+ detected by CMake at the configuration stage and linked against OpenCV.
+ (In the beta it is not implemented yet though).
+
+ * PNG encoder performance improved by factor of 4 by tuning the parameters
+
+>>> Bug fixes: <<<
+ TBD
+ (see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22870&atid=376677 of the list
+ of the closed and still opened bugs).
+
+ Many thanks to everybody who submitted bug reports and/or provided the patches!
+
+>>> Known issues:
+ * configure+autotools based build is currently broken.
+ Please, use CMake.
+ * OpenCV bug tracker at SF still lists about 150 open bugs.
+ Some of them may be actually fixed already, and most of the remaining bugs
+ are going to be fixed by OpenCV 2.0 gold.
+ * IPP is not supported. As the new OpenCV includes a lot of SSE2 code,
+ it may be not such a serious problem, though.
+ The support (at least for most important functions that do not have
+ SSE2 optimization) will be returned in 2.0 gold.
+ * The documentation has been updated and improved a lot, but it still
+ needs quite a bit of work:
+ - some of the new functionality in cvaux is not described yet.
+ - the bibliography part is broken
+ - there are quite a few known bugs and typos there
+ - many of the hyperlinks are not working.
+ * The existing tests partly cover the new functionality
+ (via the old backward-compatibility OpenCV 1.x API), but the coverage is
+ not sufficient of course.
+ * The new-style Python interface is not included yet
+
+ Many of the problems will be addressed in 2.0 gold.
+ If you have found some specific problem, please, put the record to the bug tracker:
+ http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22870
+ Better if the bug reports will include a small code sample in C++/python +
+ all the necessary data files needed to reproduce the problem.
+</pre>
+
+<hr><h2>1.1pre1</h2>
+<p class="Blurb"><i>(October, 2008)</i></p>
+
+<pre>
+
+>>> New functionality/features: <<<
+
+ - General:
+ * Octave bindings have been added. See interfaces/swig/octave (for now, Linux only)
+ * [Windows] OpenCV is now built with VS2005 with SSE2 and OpenMP support
+ included (if you want to rebuild OpenCV using Express or
+ Standard Edition of VS, use _make\opencv.vs2005.no_openmp.sln).
+ * [Windows] Python bindings have been updated to use Python 2.6
+ * [Windows] cvcam has been removed (as videoInput is now supported by highgui)
+
+ - CXCORE, CV, CVAUX:
+ * Speeded-up Robust Features (SURF), contributed by Liu Liu.
+ see samples/c/find_obj.cpp and the documentation opencvref_cv.htm
+ * Many improvements in camera calibration:
+ - Added stereo camera calibration: cvStereoCalibrate, cvStereoRectify etc.
+ - Single camera calibration now uses Levenberg-Marquardt method and supports
+ extra flags to switch on/off optimization of individual camera parameters
+ - The optional 3rd radial distortion parameter (k3*r^6) is now supported in
+ every calibration-related function
+ * 2 stereo correspondence algorithms:
+ - very fast block matching method by Kurt Konolige
+ (processes the Tsukuba stereo pair in <10ms on Core2Duo laptop)
+ - slow but more accurate graph-cut based algorithm by Kolmogorov and Zabin
+ * Better homography estimation algorithms (RANSAC and LMEDs)
+ * new C++ template image classes contributed by Daniel Filip (Google inc.).
+ see opencv/cxcore/include/cvwimage.h
+ * Fast approximate nearest neighbor search (by Xavier Delacour)
+ * Codebook method for background/foreground segmentation (by Gary Bradski)
+ * Sort function (contributed by Shiqi Yu)
+ * [OpenCV+IPP] Face Detection (cvHaarDetectObjects) now runs much faster
+ (up to 2x faster) when using IPP 5.3 or higher.
+ * Much faster (~4x faster) fixed-point variant of cvRemap has been added
+
+ - MLL:
+ * Python bindings for MLL have been added. There are no samples yet.
+
+ - HighGUI:
+ * [Windows, 32bit] Added support for videoInput library.
+ Hence, cvcam is [almost] not needed anymore
+ * [Windows, 32bit] FFMPEG can now be used for video decoding/encoding
+ via ffopencv*.dll
+ * [Linux] Added unicap support
+ * Improved internal video capturing and video encoding APIs
+
+ - Documentation:
+ * OpenCV book has been published (sold separately :) see docs/index.htm)
+
+ - New samples (opencv/samples):
+ * Many Octave samples
+ * find_obj.cpp (SURF), bgfg_codebook.cpp (Codebook BG/FG segmentation),
+ stereo_calib.cpp (Stereo calibration and stereo correspondence)
+
+>>> Bug fixes: <<<
+ Many thanks to everybody who submitted bug reports and/or provided the patches!
+
+ * added dma_unlisten to icvCloseCAM_DC1394 (thanks to Victor Benso)
+ * LMEDs algorithm for cvFindFundamentalMat estimation has been fixed
+ * Broken debug build of highgui in VS2005/2008 (SF #2056185, SF #1709435)
+ * cvFindChessboardCorners memory leak and incorrect size checks
+ (SF #1972896, SF #1910323)
+ * disabling GTK causes v4l runtime error (SF #2088102)
+ * cvsetmousecallback bug (SF #2053529)
+ * libhighgui needed deprecated "img_convert" replacement (SF #2011753)
+ * Segfault in createsamples caused by uninitialized variable (SF #1977989)
+ * Data Alignment Issue in bgfg_gaussmix (SF #1961755)
+ * libpng need to be updated (SF #1952793)
+ * cvCreateVideoWriter_Win32 - identifier not found (SF #1944254)
+ * Bug in cvmorph.cpp (SF #1908844)
+ * dilate (cvDilate) works bogus with default kernel (SF #1887130)
+ * CvEM non-default constructor declared but not defined (SF #1830346)
+ * cvFloodFill (in ver 1.0) Hangs (SF #1790565)
+ * double delete in CvImage (SF #1733437)
+ * cvFilter2D anchor default value is not working properly (SF #1713779)
+ * cvCvtColor - Bug? in converting HSV2RGB (SF #1676344)
+ * Invalid selection of the MKL-dll version in cvUseOptimized() (SF #1633017)
+ * ...
+
+>>> Known issues:
+ * Borland compiler is not supported (but might work) in this update.
+ * 64-bit Windows is not supported (but might work) in this update.
+ * SF bug tracker still contains over 50 records of open bugs.
+ Many of them will be addressed in the next update.
+</pre>
+
+<hr><h2>1.0</h2>
+<p class="Blurb"><i>(October, 2006)</i></p>
+
+<pre>
+>>> New functionality/features: <<<
+
+ - General:
+ * Windows installation package now includes precompiled Python module
+ * Borland C++ (v5.6+) makefiles re-added (see _make\make_all_bc.mak)
+
+ - CV:
+ * Inpainting was added, see samples/c/inpaint.cpp
+ (thanks to Alexander Kibkalo and Alexey Kalinichenko)
+
+ - MLL:
+ * Boosted tree classifiers added, see MLL reference manual
+
+ - HighGUI:
+ * Jpeg2000 and EXR support in highgui using JasPer and OpenEXR (thanks to Nils Hasler)
+ OpenEXR is not built-in to highgui on Windows by default. See
+ otherlibs/_graphics/readme.txt.
+ * >8-bit image input/output for PNG, Jpeg2000 and OpenEXR (thanks to Nils Hasler)
+ * Updated CMUcamera wrapper.
+ * Several V4L2 improvements and fixes
+
+ - New samples (opencv/samples):
+ * Camera calibration sample: calibrate.cpp
+ * Inpainting sample: inpaint.cpp
+ * Letter recognition using the existing database with
+ random trees/boosted trees/neural nets: leter_recog.cpp
+ * A few new Python samples.
+
+ - Tests:
+ * Most old cv tests have been rewritten/converted to use cxts instead of trs.
+ TRS is not used by the tests anymore.
+
+>>> Bug fixes: <<<
+ Many thanks to everybody who submitted bug reports and/or provided the patches!
+
+ * Incorrect normalization in cvFindFundamentalMat (SF #1550855)
+ * Occasional cvGetQuadrangleSubPix crashes (SF #1549168)
+ * Occasional cvCalcOpticalFlowPyrLK crashes
+ * Internal GCC 3.x error in cvFloor/cvCeil (SF #1546657)
+ * Several Python-related bugs (SF #1570109, SF #1572800, SF #1543593)
+ * Bugs in contour processing/rendering (SF #1550889,
+ * x86-64 related bugs (SF #1526133, SF #1527997)
+ * OpenCV dispatcher tried to load old versions of IPP (pre 4.x)
+ that caused many failures (see SF #1555093, for example)
+ * Inaccurate results in some cases in cvFitEllipse, cvFitLine, cvHoughCircles.
+ * Severe bug in Bayesian classifier, broken regression tree in MLL
+ * Overflow in blurring filter
+ * cvSaveImage() modified saved images leading to potential problems in threaded apps.
+ * Numeric values in XML/YAML were emitted/parsed incorrectly
+ on some non-US locales in Linux
+ * VS2005 Express/Standard Editions could not build OpenCV
+ (due to missing OpenMP support)
+ * ...
+
+>>> Known issues:
+ * Certain tests may fail on IA64 (Itanium), e.g.
+ gaussian filter, fundamental matrix estimation, chessboard detector.
+...
+</pre>
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