[Portugal] Release of OTB 3.8 and Monteverdi 1.6

[Pedro Monteiro]

Release of OTB 3.8 and Monteverdi 1.6
http://blog.orfeo-toolbox.org/uncategorized/release-of-otb-3-8-and-monteverdi-1-6
 Dec 17th, 2010 by Julien
Michel<http://blog.orfeo-toolbox.org/uncategorized/release-of-otb-3-8-and-monteverdi-1-6>.


We are happy to announce the new 3.8.0 OTB release, codename “Pack Ice”.
Simultaneously, we are releasing Monteverdi 1.6, the all-in one
user-friendly graphical tool for remote sensing image processing and also a
new release of OTB-Applications and OTB-Wrapping projects.

We are also happy to announce that starting 3.8.0, packages are available
through online repositories for the 3 last Ubuntu versions as well as for
OpenSuse ! These packages include the OTB library, the OTB-Applications and
Monteverdi. Java and Python wrapping packages will be available very soon.
Our next post will explain how to update your system repositories so as to
get the last OTB installed in no time and you can already find details about
the procedure on the Download
page<http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/download.html>.
For windows users, installers are available for Monteverdi and
OTB-Applications and Wrappings. Last novelty, a Monteverdi DMG is available
for our Mac users (intel only).

There are numerous improvements to the library :
- Improved local descriptors tools based on ImageFunction :
- Rework FlusserImageFunction and HuImageFunction to output all moments in
one pass (FlusserMomentsImageFunction, HuMomentsImageFunction)
- Rework RealMomentsImagefilter and ComplexMomentImageFilter to output a
matrix of all moments associated to p, q inferior to a given parameter
(ComplexMomentsImageFunction, HuMomentsImageFunction)
- Add image function to compute a vector containing the local mean,
variance, skewness and kurtosis (RadiometricMomentsImageFunction)
- Add local histogram image function (LocalHistogramImageFunction)
- Add image function to compute the local Fourier Mellin coefficients
(FourierMellinDescriptorsImageFunction)
- Add a class to adapt any image function return types to
itk::VariableLengthVector (ImageFunctionAdaptor)
- Add a class to build composite image functions (MetaImageFunction)
- New object detection framework (see also
http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Object_detection)
- Add filter to generate negative samples
(LabeledSampleLocalizationGenerator)
- Add filter to evaluate an image function on a set of point and generate
ListSample (DescriptorsListSampleGenerator)
- Add filter to balance the sample number of different classes in a
ListSample by generating new samples from existing ones plus noise
(ListSampleToBalancedListSampleFilter,
GaussianAdditiveNoiseSampleListFilter)
- Add filter to apply a shift/scale to a ListSample
(ShiftScaleSampleListFilter)
- Add filter to detect object from an SVM model and an image function
(ObjectDetectionClassifier)
- SVMClassifier: add hyperplanes distances as output
- GDALImageIO: support writing of non-streamable format (JPEG, PNG)
- Support reading vector images of std::complex
- BandMathFilter: add physical and image coordinates variables

Monteverdi 1.8 comes with 3 new modules and 2 modules improvements :
- Monteverdi
- New Polarimetric Synthesis module
- New DEM image extraction / HillShading module: creates an image from a DEM
tiles directory, with optional hillshading
- New ColorMapping module: apply a colormap to a mono band image
- Viewer module: add multi input support, with slideshow or transparency
mode, add more rendering functions, add splitted/packed layout option
- Vectorization module: new semi-automatic mode based on segmentation
results proposals.

Regarding the OTB-Applications package, it has been completely revamped and
offers the following new features:
- Object Detection applications (see also
http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Object_detection)
- EstimateFeatureStatistics to evaluate descriptors statistics on a set of
images
- TrainObjectDetector: generates an SVM model from input images and a vector
data
- ObjectDetector: detects points in an image from an SVM model
- Add automatically generated GUI wrappers for OTB processing chains
- Add FLTK wrapper
- Add a generic Qt based widget class
- Add a Qt GUI wrapper based on the generic Qt widget
- Add a Qgis plugin wrapper based on the generic Qt widget

The OTB Software
Guide<http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/packages/OTBSoftwareGuide.pdf>has
also been updated and is now 700 pages long.

Also, the otb-developers mailing list announced with the 3.6 release is a
great success: we had lots of registrations, with very interesting
contributions to the project development. Many thanks to the contributors !

On behalf of the OTB development team, we wish you a merry christmas and an
happy new year,
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