Release Notes

See complete changelog here: CHANGELOG

V1.2.x

This release improve usability and interoperability of OpenGR with other libraries and projects.

• Interoperability
  • Add Point-Type Abstraction Layer, see documentation: Using Your Point Type
  • Remove Meshlab demo: Meshlab is not maintened anymore, and the plugin was too complex to use, test, and probably not really used in practice
• Continuous Integration
  • Call make all in Travis script
• Other fixes and improvements
  • Fix #34 https://github.com/STORM-IRIT/OpenGR/issues/34
  • Partially fix #36 https://github.com/STORM-IRIT/OpenGR/issues/36

V1.1.x

This release introduces new code structure allowing use as an actual library.

• Build system
  • Super4PCS now generates a CMake package, so you just need to call find_package(Super4PCS) to work with the library.
  • Save binaries compiled by AppVeyor integration system as Artifacts.
• Demos, scripts and assets
  • assets are now added to the install folder, including downloaded datasets.
  • demo scripts have been updated to work directly after installation. Windows batch scripts have been added.
• Dependencies
  • Chealpix dependency is marked as deprecated: it slows down the approach and reduce it's robustness. Consequently, Chealpix is still built in CI but not tested.
• Devel
  • Update include directive relatively to super4pcs root dir. (including fix by when enabling timings).
  • Add silent mode in matcher to avoid unwanted logging on standard output. This is implemented by adding a visitor in the matcher main loop, and set it as a logger in the Super4pcs main app.
  • Change directories structure with separated library, tests and demos folders.

V1.0.x-alpha

Pre-release introducing the new version of the Super4PCS library. No much changes on the API, but many changes on the code internal structure, tests, etc.

Major changes:

• Dependencies:
  • remove ANN dependency,
  • remove dependency to Chealpix. Can be controlled by the option SUPER4PCS_USE_CHEALPIX. This options will be available for some time for experiment purposes. During this time, Chealpix and Cfitsio files will still be shipped with Super4PCS source code.
  • OpenCV is required only to load meshes textures. This dependency can be removed by switching option IO_USE_OPENCV to FALSE,
• remove duplicate code between 4PCS and Super4PCS,
• clean code structure,
• demo dataset + run script added.
• CMake project can now be opened directly with Visual Studio 2017.

V0.2.x-alpha

Pre-release including improved compilation system, supporting both windows and linux platforms. Binaries are available for x64 Windows platforms (tested with windows 7 and 10, requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015).

Major changes:

• Fix segfault reported in issue #11
• fix IO bug #9
• add windows support #4. As a side effect, dependencies are now packaged with the library.
• improved Cmake configuration: c++11 flags check, add option to set/unset timing recording

Compatibility:

• add compatibility with OpenCV3.0 and greater
• fix compilation errors with gcc 4.9.1

Minor and devel changes :

• exploration is now stopped when LCP = 1
• fix several minor bugs, causing instabilities and reduced performances
• use functors in several place, to improve code reusability and prepare next milestones
• removed several compilation warnings

V0.1-alpha

Alpha version of the Super4PCS first release, introducing:

• compilation environment using CMake.
• unit-tests based on CTest: to process both sub-routines and the whole Super4PCS algorithm using an online dataset with ground truth (Standford).
• improved performances and bugfixes.