Opticks 4.7.1 Released

Opticks 4.7.1 has been released on September 20th, 2011.

This release is intended to replace 4.7.0 as the recommended release.

View complete list of new features and fixed bugs.

Added morphological operations on AOIs. (dilate, erode, open, and close) (OPTICKS-1132)
Added connected components labeling of "blobs" contained in an AOI. (OPTICKS-1132)
Added the ability to save raw DES data from a NITF file. This is done via a RasterElement exporter. (OPTICKS-1151)
Multiple images can now be geographically mosaic'ed together into a new window for visualization purposes. (OPTICKS-1153)
The user can now create a new RasterElement from an AOI, which is especially useful with the new mosaic capability. (OPTICKS-1153)
The Ice Threshold Layer Exporter and Ice Threshold Layer Importer plug-ins are now available to save and load threshold layer files in the Ice format. (OPTICKS-1194)
The Convolution Filter capability now supports convolving with any/all bands in the original image using the new "Subset..." button. Previously it was restricted to the first band. (OPTICKS-1183)

The red, green, and blue contrast stretch values of a raster layer no longer change to unexpected values when RGB is set on the Brightness Toolbar. (OPTICKS-990)
The band names and raster element names are no longer partially obscured when selecting a new band to display or a new channel element in the histogram plot. (OPTICKS-1130)
Plug-in argument descriptions are now properly saved and loaded with the wizard node when saving and loading a wizard file. (OPTICKS-1174)
The performance of Convolution Filter for BIP and BIL interleaved images has been improved. (OPTICKS-1195)
The performance of statistics and histogram generation for BIL interleaved images has been improved. (OPTICKS-1195)
The Generic HDF5 Importer now works correctly when a 2-dimensional dataset is followed by a 3-dimensional dataset in the HDF5 file. (OPTICKS-1208)
IGM Georeference works correctly in batch mode. (OPTICKS-1202)
BAD_BAND information stored in a NITF BANDSB TRE will now be properly marked in the initial subset of bands when loading the NITF data. (OPTICKS-1190)
When subsetting rows, columns, or bands with the Edit Data Descriptor wizard item, the file descriptor row/column/band list is used as the starting point. This was preventing proper subsetting during import (within a wizard) when the importer selects a proper subset of rows, columns, or bands by default. This subset behavior is now consistent between the import options dialog and the Edit Data Descriptor wizard item. (OPTICKS-1224)

A rounding error was corrected in the View::getVisibleCenter() method that caused the returned value to be off by a fraction of a pixel if the view width or height was an odd number of pixels. (OPTICKS-1201)
The GeoTiff Pager can now be directly used by extension developers to page data out of tiff files. (OPTICKS-1189)
If two plug-ins have the same name, an error message is now reported to the message log, previously the conflicting plug-ins would silently fail. (OPTICKS-1196)

Added the Intel Threading Building Blocks library as a new third party dependency for Windows platforms. Documentation, tutorials and example code are available at https://threadingbuildingblocks.org. (OPTICKS-1179)

The performance of Tutorial3, Tutorial4 and Tutorial5 has been improved. (OPTICKS-1195)
The OpenCV pre-built binary for Linux was re-built and now loads properly on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit (OPTICKS-1223).

Blog Posts: September 2011