Mimas Announcement Archive
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Mimas-2.0
Download Mimas-2.0 ("A tremor in the force") released on Mar 15th 2006
Release Notes (updated!)
- In order to build the LAPACK-wrappers make sure you have blas, lapack, f2c, and gcc-fortran (on older systems g77 or f77) installed.
# On the older Mandriva version you may have to configure using ./configure FLIBS="-lgfortran"
# On openSuSE 10.0 libgfortranbegin.a was compiled without "-fPIC". You need to configure using ./configure F77=gfortran FLIBS="-lgfortran"
- Mesa off-screen rendering may crash NVidia's X-servers. NVidia does not support OSMesa.
- You will experience memory leak on most X-servers, when switching between on- and off-screen using X11-pixmaps. Therefore OSMesa is the preferred method for off-screen rendering. The configure script will automatically select OSMesa, if it is supported by your X-server.
- On new Mandriva with ATI drivers (open-source as well as commercial) Mimas' on-screen rendering freezes the X-server. We don't know a solution at the moment.
Change log
- The mm_-prefix was removed from all classes in favour of the mimas-namespace.
- Direct transformation algorithms from different YUV formats to greyscale have been implemented.
- Various video sources (virtually any video file, DVDs, VCDs, streaming formats) are now accessible with mimas::image_xineinput, which is using libxine. See viewVideo example for more.
- Image files are now read using ImageMagick (Magick++), which allows reading and writing of animated GIFs, DICOM stacks (8 bit at the moment), FAX, Postscript, PDF, MPEG, RAS, ... See viewImage example for more.
- Mimas is configured to use OSMesa for off-screen rendering, if it is present on the system.
- The Mimas library now is independent of Qt. The examples, which are using Qt, have been ported to Qt4. This allows the Mimas library to be used with Qt3- as well as Qt4-programs.
- The function-wrappers for Fourier transform are now supporting both single and double precision.
- Lapack-wrappers extended with Cholesky factorisation and determinants.
- An example for L-systems was implemented.
Mimas-1.4
Download Mimas-1.4 ("Lamb with peppermint sauce, marmite and other sins.") 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
Download Mimas-1.3 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
Download 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
Download 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
Download 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
