Revision as of 23:06, 24 April 2006

Mimas Announcement Archive

Mimas-1.4

Mimas-1.4 ("Lamb with peppermint sauce, marmite and other sins.") was released on Nov 21th 2005.

Release Notes

• RPM-files for Mandrake 10.2 are provided.
• Don't run the mesa example on NVidia cards, as it crashes NVidia's Xorg-servers at the moment :(

Change log

• Support for firewire digital cameras (accessed using libdc1394)
• shift and rotation estimation using the fourier transform

Mimas-1.3

Mimas-1.3 was released on Jul 29th 2005.

Release Notes

• No rpm-files are provided this time.
• "make install" now will install documentation and the compiled examples under /usr/share/doc/mimas-devel-1.3/

Change log

Notable changes include:

• Convolution for n-dimensional arrays and images and faster LSI-filters have been implemented.
• Operators for images have been added (f.e. "image3=(image1-image2)*3.0").
• 2D-image-iterators have been implemented.
• Support for mesa offscreen- and onscreen-rendering has been added.
• Object-recognition using moments was implemented.

Mimas-1.2

Mimas 1.2 ("If a job can be done by a machine, it is below human dignity.") released on Feb 28th 2005.

Release Notes

• The lib*.so-files have been moved to the rpm-devel-package. This is a bug-fix, which also resolved the problem with superfluous dependencies. The rpm-packages are for Mandrake 10.0 only.

Change Log

• type-traits for pixel-conversion
• new grabber class (video4linux)
• introduced boost uBLAS
• added wrappers for xml-library Xalan-C
• iterative pose-estimation for 3D-correspondences

Mimas-1.1

Mimas 1.1 released on Aug 2nd 2004.

Release Notes

• new automated build system based around autoconf/automake
• RPMS for Linux distributions

Change Log

• new classes
  • new vectorfield class
  • new SVD based tracker
  • new Hebbian learning class
  • new dynamic display tool class
• fixed
  • fixed Fourier class for fftw2
  • streamlining of correlation tracker
  • fixed findTux
  • fixed documentation system

Mimas-1.0

Mimas 1.0 ("Durians, haggis, easter eggs and everything tasty") released on Apr 8th 2004.

Mimas started life in 1999 as a C++ computer vision library intended to be incorporated into user applications. Version 1.0 has been a long time coming, but we've now decided that enough is enough and hence we are releasing it publicly and in source code form! It's downloadable from: http://www.shu.ac.uk/mmvl/research/mimas/download/stable/1.0/ The file that you want is: mimas-1.0.tar.bz2

For more information on Mimas itself see: http://www.shu.ac.uk/mmvl/research/mimas/

Currently functionality is somewhat complete and there is a reasonable implementation of the base classes required for computer vision tasks - colour and grey image support, hough transform, vector, line, object tracking, active contours, object recognition, image capture etc. Mimas has also grown to incorporate non-vision algorithms and methods including the ability to do things like neural computation, Matlab-like matrix computations, statistical methods, etc.

The main platform for developing Mimas is GNU/Linux. However the source code is largely platform independent, apart from classes that have direct access to hardware, e.g. image grabbing.

More details are available in the README file distributed with Mimas. For discussions, see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mimas/

Enjoy!

The Mimas Toolkit core team:

Bala Amavasai
Stuart Meikle

Older releases

mimas-1.0       08-Apr-2004
mimas-1.0-pre2  06-Apr-2004
mimas-1.0-pre1  20-Feb-2004
mimas-0.9.4     15-Dec-2003
mimas-0.9.3     01-Jul-2003
mimas-0.9.2b    17-Mar-2003
mimas-0.9.2     13-Mar-2003
mimas-0.9.1     22-Nov-2002
mimas-0.9.0     07-Oct-2002
mimas-0.8       03-Jul-2002
mimas-0.6       08-Jan-2002

See Also

• Mimas