changes.txt

一个很有用的图像处理软件

CHANGES for Caliph & Emir
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2007-07-06
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Descriptors
  - Updated Scalable Color Descriptor. Now it matches the XM impl.
    THX to Fabrizio Falchi & Bastian Hoesch.
    
2007-03-26
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Descriptors:
  - Updated EdgeHistogramImpl according to bug noticed by
    Bastian Hoesch

2006-12-13
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General:
  - Updated to Lucene 2.1.0
   
2006-12-13
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General:
  - Included changes in the DominantColor descriptor proposed
    by Janine Lachner
  - Added ColorStructur descriptor (not working yet ...)
  - Added tests for ColorStructure

2006-11-03
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General:
  - Added Reader classes for .ppm and .bmp images

Caliph:
  - Added support for ppm and bmp images
  
Emir:
  - Added preliminary support for CBIR for ppm and bmp images

2006-07-31
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General:
  - Release 0.9.23
  
2006-07-18
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Emir:
  - Implemented demo mode for Emir Visualization

2006-07-14
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Emir:
  - Fixed Bug in MDS vis (move with mouse left button pressed)
  - Two new options in EmirConfiguration for showing the "Please Wait"
    sign in Viz and the max sifde length of thumbnails in viz
  - Alt + Mouse Wheel now changes size of thumbnails in viz

General
  - Updated Derby to 10.1.3
  - Updated Looks to 2.0.4
  - Updated Lucene to 2.0.0
  - Updated Windows Exe Launchers

2006-05-15
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General
  - Updated and moved About Screen Images
  - Updated to looks 2.0.2
  - Updated to metadata-extractor 2.3.1

Emir:
  - Removed local help from menu

2006-03-22
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Emir:
  - Made Suffix Tree Metric much better (inversion of paths,
    IDF weigthing)
  - Added new Tests
  
2006-03-16
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General:
  - Updated to Lucene 1.9.1

Emir:
  - Added Vector Space Retrieval based on the node texts
  - Removed warnings for Lucene 1.9.1
  - Integrated Suffix Tree Model TF*IDF variant into repository
    visualization
  - Integrated Vector Space Model TF*IDF variant into repository
    visualization (with nodes and triples)
  - Centered config dialogue

2006-03-15
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Emir:
  - Bugfix in Vector Space Model
  - Bugfix in SuffixTree Model
  - Bugfix in BooleanNodeDistanceFunction
  - Added BM25 weighting in Vector Space Model
  - Some cleaning in FastSubgraphIsomorphism

2006-03-09
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General:
  - Started Evaluation.

Emir:
  - VectorSpace Model implementation for graph similarity
    based on paths.
  - Code style and inline docs.
  
2006-02-28
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General:
  - Identified 31 warnings for moving to Lucene 1.9

Caliph:
  - Fixed bug in MPEG-7 file: width and heigt of the image
    were interchanged (THX to Josef Hammer)
  - Reset button for image preview.
  - Removed local help from menu.
  - Prepared code for editing agents in semantics creator

2006-02-20
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General:
  - Documentation updated

Emir:
  - Changed dialog title for configuration

2006-02-19
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General:
  - Documentation updated
  
Emir:
  - Added icon for configuration
  - Added option to visualize results based on Berretti's
    algorithm (painfully slow!)
  - Added option to visualize repository based on
    STC & Berretti
  - Added TF and TF*IDF weighting to ST Model
  - Added HTML export of results

2006-02-18
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Caliph:
  - fixed nasty bug that showed error when starting Caliph.

Emir:
  - Implemented Berrettis Error Correcting Subgraph Isomorphism
    Metric another step faster.
  - Added option to use Berrettis metric and the ST Model for
    repository visualization.
  - Disabled unavailable options in Emir

2006-02-17
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Emir:
  - Implemented Berrettis Error Correcting Subgraph Isomorphism
    Metric much faster.

2006-02-16
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General:
  - Created and optimized FastDominantColorImpl for performance
    optimizing
  - Created Performance tests.
  - Updated to Looks 2.0 Beta

Caliph:
  - Experiments with gradients in titles
  
Emir:
  - Implemented max search results from configuration in
    retrievalengines (now it reduces results if there are)
    too much.
  - Indexing into Derby is switched off by default. Can be
    switched on using the configuration.
  - Implemented Berrettis Error Correcting Subgraph Isomorphism
    Metric (too much memory, too slow!)

2006-02-15
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General:
  - Added constructor in ScalableColor for extraction from non
    rectangular regions
  - Similarity based on Suffix Tree Model implemented

Caliph:
  - Added online help menu item and "visit homepage" menu item

Emir:
  - Added online help menu item and "visit homepage" menu item
  - Added configuration dialog and re-organized menu
  - Put "Use Derby" Option into configuration dialog
  - Added actions panel with quick start buttons 

2006-02-06
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General:
  - Removed some System.out.println() calls

Caliph:
  - Fixed DominantColor Descriptor (now it validates against
    http://m7itb.nist.gov/M7Validation.html) THX to Daniel P鰐zinger

2006-02-06
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General:
  - Re-Implemented EdgeHistogram in a fast and efficient way
  - Moved DominantColor to at.lux.imageanalysis
  - Removed org.vizir packages as they were no longer needed

Caliph:
  - Added try/catch for startup to give error message and close
    VM in case of errors.
   
2006-02-04
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General:
  - Removed JDOM dependencies from org.vizir package for LIRE.
  - broke down descriptors into JDOM and non JDOM Versions for LIRE. 

2006-01-31
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General:
  - Created and upped Java Web Start versions of Caliph & Emir

2006-01-26
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General:
  - Updated metadata-extractor library
  - Updated swing-layout library to 1.0 from Netbeans RC 2
  - Updated test data to new thumbnail and added DominantColor
  - Updated build.xml for automatic release
  - Updated windows launchers to new libraries

Caliph:
  - Stripped some unneccessary System.out output
  - Removed log4j library, changed to java.util.logging

2006-01-20
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Emir:
  - Added a general config panel (not shown yet)
  - Made configuration look more appealing (not shown yet)

2006-01-11
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Emir:
  - Added some configuration dialogs, not shown yet.

2006-01-10
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Emir:
  - Added some configuration dialogs, not shown yet.
  - Implemented option to visualize search results.
  - Made EmirConfiguration Java 1.5 (autoboxing, for each).

2006-01-09
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Emir:
  - Added new menu for clustering, saving and visualizing results
  - Added tooltip for result entries
  - Added new startup exceoption wrapper.

General:
  - Added three new icons to IconCache
  - Fixed error in Sufffix Tree

2006-01-07
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Caliph:
  - Close preview dialog on ESC
  - Added option to copy the structured text anntation
    to the free text annotation field with F8
  - Fixed the bug that file was not saved on <ctrl>-s
    within text fields.
  - Removed button from structured text description panel

2006-01-06
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General:
  - Added ColorStructureDescriptor (Unusable, too slow.)
  - Updated help.

Caliph:
  - Fixed bug in ImageLoader (Loading of images was too slow,
    had to be scaled down)
  - Changed Icon for help, now with transparency.
  - Changed parts of the icon handling.
  - Added option to export semantic descriptions as JPG and PNG images
  - Added SVG export (only if libraries are present)

Emir:
  - Fixed bug in DatabaseRetrievalEngine (too big images could not
    be loaded)

2005-11-22
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Emir:
  - Search for combination of VisualDescriptors added.

2005-11-20
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Caliph:
  - Bugfix in TextDescriptionPanel (Word wrap in free text
    description TextArea)
  - Help in BeePanel removed. Help icon added instead. 

2005-11-20
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Caliph:
  - Introduced Icon cache
  - Added Mnemonics to OK button in new.. dialogs
  - Added Icon for semantic object
  - Bugfixes (EmbedderThread stops now on mouse action)
    and drawing relations now works better.

Emir:
  - Moving of nodes in graphsearchpanel now supported
  - Boost value of fields tuned (label of sem. objects
    is now boosted)
  - right click menu in graphsearchpanel reworked
  - help in graphsearchpanel added
  - Made handling in graphsearchpanel consistent
  - database retrieval shows some EXIF information if no
    MPEG-7 file is available.

2005-11-19
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Emir:
  - some minor bugfixes

2005-11-17
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Emir:
  - Added new constructor to ResultListentry
  - Added basic support for searching via Derby for images
    having no MPEG-7 file.

2005-11-17
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Caliph:
  - Changed Embedding behaviour of BeePanel
  - Changed Titles of New ... dialogs
  - Hid some textfields and added an autoincrement for the
    document version.
  - Edited some labels for more understanding
  - Removed import buttons from the semantic objects tables
  - Added tooltips on some places
  - Added security check at the copy-function for semantics
    to structured text
  - Changed behaviour of imageThumbPanel on resize.
  - Added splash screen
  - Added help in context menu for BeePanel
  - Fixed new place dialog
  - Fixed new object dialog
  - Fixed new time dialog
  - "When" field is taken from EXIF data

2005-11-16
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Caliph:
  - Changed cursor to wait while loading
  - Fixed new Agent dialog
  - Fixed new Event dialog
  - Added "new" option to semantic drawing panel
  - Added lib from netbeans for new layout for dialogs

2005-11-14
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Caliph:
  - Added new "About" dialog
  - Edited and updated help

Emir:
  - Added new "About" dialog

2005-11-10
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Caliph:
  - Added new constructor for startup within Emir

Emir:
  - Added white border to result images
  - Now Caliph can be opened from result list with
    right mouse button
      
2005-11-08
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Caliph:
  - Fixed bug in autopilot
  - Status bar init text set to program name

Emir:
  - Removed border from garbage tracker

2005-11-07
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Caliph:
  - Changed behaviour of thumbnail generator
  - Changed behaviour of textfields in use with autopilot
  
Emir:
  - Fixed bug in Indexer, searcher and so on with SAXBuilder
    URLs and Umlauts
  - Changed Look & Feel of result image preview