OfficialEye 1.2.2

• Improved the way in which the result of the run and test commands gets outputted, it now also includes the chosen template.
• Significantly improved performance by implementing a better system for graceful IPC-based interrupting of the thread listening for messages from child processes.

OfficialEye 1.2.1

• Bug fixes & minor improvements.
• Minor API refinement.

OfficialEye 1.2.0 (beta)

Major changes

• Implemented the OfficialEye API. Now it is possible to interact with the program programatically, without the need of running the CLI.
• Reimplemented the CLI as a layer on top of the new API. Thus, the API and the internal implementation no longer contain any code that is specific to the CLI user interface. In particular, it is now easy to implement different frontends that rely on OfficialEye as a backend service.
• Implemented a framework for transparent and process-safe interaction with the API backend.
• Switched from thread-based to process-based parallelism for resource-intensive backend operations.
• Substantially improved the CLI user interface.
• Numerous other related architecture changes aimed at the long-term stability of the software.
• Integrated a new error handling system and related debugging facilitibes.
• Removed the (legacy) orthogonal regression supervision engine.
• Temporarily disabled the ability to generate visualizations.

Minor changes

• Removed the --worker argument from the run and test commands, because it has become redundant and unnececcary in light of the new architecture.
• Implemented a new approach to handling image outputting in the CLI, that is much more flexible compared to the previous one.
• Improved type annotations.
• Removed the --visualize argument from the test command.

OfficialEye 1.1.5 (beta)

• Added an --interpret option to the run and test commands, allowing one to optionally use a different target image for the interpretation phase.
• Set up linting and basic unit testing to ensure better code quality.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes.

OfficialEye 1.1.4 (beta)

• Added a new rotate mutator, that rotates an image by a multiple of 90 degrees.
• Added a new file interpretation method that is similar to file_temp, but can save a file at the specified path.
• Improved the error handling system.
• Fixed multiple bugs, including one critical bug.
• Added a possibility of using external errors as causes of OfficialEye errors.
• Added support for non-shape-preserving mutators.
• Added a new -re flag allowing one to disable built-in error handling.
• Slightly changed logging style.
• Refactor.

OfficialEye 1.1.3 (beta)

• The tesseract_ocr interpretation method no longer has default Tesseract OCR configuration values predefined.
• Added a new file_temp interpretation method that allows one to save features as temporary files.
• Separated debugging mode and step visualization mode. Now the two settings are independent of each other.
• Added a new flag --visualize to the run and test commands, allowing users to toggle visualization mode.
• Simplified the image exporting system.
• Removed the --dedir global argument. Users should now use --edir instead.
• Rewritten the context and context management system, making the API much closer to being stable.
• Other substrantial refactor.
• Other architecture improvements.
• Fixed numerous typos and inconsistencies in comments and strings.

OfficialEye 1.1.2 (beta): Initial PyPI release

There are only minor improvements compared to the previous release (version 1.1.1). This release serves as an initial release for PyPI.

OfficialEye 1.1.1 (beta): Bug fixes and documentation.

Changelog

• Fixed many minor bugs, typos and inconsistencies.
• Refactor.
• Many documentation improvements.

OfficialEye 1.1.0 (beta). Mutation & Interpretation system, Feature Classes and more!

Changelog

• Huge refactor of the entire codebase, and numerous architecture improvements.
• Removed the officialeye analyze command, replacing its functionality with officialeye test and officialeye run.
• Simplified the implementation of IO Drivers, and removed the possibility of manually speficying the desired IO driver via the --io option, as it is no longer required.
• Implemented the feature class system, that allows grouping of features together in a non-verbose and meaningful way, and which, among other features, supports abstraction and inheritance.
• Removed the possibility of attaching meta values to features, as this has been a bad design choice.
• Implemented the feature interpretation system, allowing one to specify for every individual feature the way in which it is to be intepreted.
• Implemented the mutation system and the ability of adding mutators to feature classes, that get applied before executing the interpretation system.
• The score value is now included into the output of the officialeye run command. This value represents the level of confidence in the correctness of the result.
• Fixed incorrect behaviour when a template keypoint required matches, but there were actually no matches whatsoever.
• Added --show-features options to the officialeye test command, that allows one to specify whether the feature borders are to be visualized or not.
• Added --hide-features and --hide-keypoints options to the officialeye show command.
• Added the possibility of applying mutators to the template image and to the target images.
• Added grayscaling, denoising, and contrast increase mutators.

OfficialEye 1.0.2 (beta). Automatic template config generation, engine-specific configurations, performance improvements, and more!

Changelog

• Automatic template configuration file generation via the officialeye create command (see #2).
• Improved logging.
• Minor bug fixes.
• Improved the officialeye show command, made in particular the overlay look better.
• The matching system now supports engine-specific configuration. For example, if you are using the sift_flann keypoint matcher, you can now specify the sensitivity value in the matching.config.sift_flann.sensitivity option of the template configuration file.
• Improved error handling.
• Significantly improved the performance of the sift_flann keypoint matching engine.
• Template features can now have fully customizable meta information attached to them. This allows more flexibility for concrete supervision engine implementations.