SDK version v4.9.0: Release Notes

Note that there is no public release for Papillon SDK v4.7 and SDK 4.8 (internal releases for Digital Barriers products).

Main Changes:

New Face Recognition model FR09 with significant performance improvement: DescriberDnn plugin now uses our new FaceRecognition09 model by default (see Expected Performance)
New plugin FaceDetector5 (see FaceDetector5)
New plugin PDescriberFaceQuality for face ISO measurement (see DescriberFaceQuality)
Fast search algorithm for Face Recognition (see PSearchList, up to 50x faster than PWatchlist)
New EdgeVis input video stream plugin to be able to read TVI video streams (only available for Windows and Linux Ubuntu)
New FFmpeg input video stream plugin (only available for Windows and Linux Ubuntu)
Many new functions in Core to make SDK easier to use and speed-up development process
Add Python3 support

New features:

Added: new constant PAPILLON_PACKAGE_NAME in PapillonVersion.h to provide better support
Added: PByteArray: new method PByteArray::Insert()
Added: PByteStream, PMemoryStream, PFileStream: add support for very large streams and better error messages in case of failure
Added: PDateTime: new method PDateTime::FromMicrosecondsSinceEpoch()
Added: PDescription: new methods PDescription::GetNumberOfDescriptors(), PDescription::GetFirstDescriptor(), PDescription::GetPropertiesForReading()
Added: PDescriptor: new methods PDescriptor::Reset(), PDescriptor::SetDescribeId(), PDescriptor::SetObjectType(), PDescriptor::GetDataSource(), PDescriptor::GetModelName(), PDescriptor::SetModelName(), PDescriptor::SetDescriptorFormat(), PDescriptor::GetDescriptorFormat()
Added: PDetector: new methods PDetector::Detect() with extended parameters, PDetector::Localise()
Added: PDetection: new method PDetection::Reset()
Added: PFeatureMap: new methods PFeatureMap::GetMidEyeCentre(), PFeatureMap::GetMouthCentre()
Added: PFile: new static method PFile::MD5()
Added: PGuid: new methods PGuid::CreateFrom2Ids(), PGuid::ToByteArray(), PGuid::ToStringUnderscores()
Added: PIdentifyResult: new method PIdentifyResult:SetName()
Added: PImage: new method PImage::GetEFileFormatToString(), PImage::MD5()
Added: PLog: log on file can manage log rotation
Added: PMap: new method PMap::Merge()
Added: PMatchScore: new method PMatchScore::Set()
Added: PObject: new methods PObject::IsSame(), PObject::FromString()
Added: PProperties: new methods PProperties::Clone() (shallow copy), PProperties::Stringify(), PProperties::Destringify(), PProperties::SetObject(), PProperties::SetString(), PProperties::SetBool(), PProperties::SetInt32(), PProperties::SetInt64(), PProperties::SetBool(), PProperties::SetFloat(), PProperties::SetDouble()
Added: PRectanglei/f: new methods PRectanglei::Intersected(), PRectanglei::Expanded(), PRectanglef::Intersected(), PRectanglef::Expanded()
Added: PResult: new method PResult::IsEndOfStream()
Added: PSearchlist: new class to optimise search through a watchlist
Added: PSqlDatabase: new constant PSqlDatabase::E_NONE
Added: PSqlQuery: add support for "forward only" to improve performance; new methods PSqlQuery::IsForwardOnly(), PSqlQuery::GetByIndex(), PSqlQuery::GetByName(), PSqlQuery::GetNumRowsAffected()
Added: PStoreIterator: new methods PStoreIterator::GetEntityId(), PStoreIterator::IsDeleted()
Added: PString: new medhods PString::FromUTF8(), PString::Arg(bool)
Added: PSystemInfo: new methods PSystemInfo::GetNVidiaDriverVersion(), PSystemInfo::GetAllMACAddresses(), PSystemInfo::GetCudaCompatibleGPU()
Added: PVersion: new medhod PVersion::ToStringShort()
Added: PWatchlist: new methods PWatchlist::ReadNextDescriptionFromFile(), PWatchlist::ReadDescriptionFromFileIncrementaly(), PWatchlist::GetSearchStats()

Changes:

PDescription: better PDescription::ToString() method
PDescriptor: better PDescriptor::ToString() method
PImage: PImage::DisplayOff() is now static
PImage: PImage::Blur(): blur factor is now double
PRectanglef: PRectanglef::Expand() has been marked as deprecated and been replaced by PRectanglef::Expanded()
PRectanglei: PRectanglei::Expand() has been marked as deprecated and been replaced by PRectanglei::Expanded()
PStringList: PStringList::Contains() is now const
PSystemInfo: PSystemInfo::IsCudaCompatibleGPU() has been marked as deprecated and been replaced by PSystemInfo::GetCudaCompatibleGPU()

Fixes:

Fixed: PMapIterator: Next() method is now protected against overflow
Fixed: PSingleInstance: now works for all OS
Fixed: MaxGap parameter was not working in plugin FaceLog6 (Real-time face identification)
Fixed: small memory leak in plugin FaceLog6 (Real-time face identification)

Documentation:

Better documentation for PPath, PProperties, PSqlQuery
Some other minor documentation fixes and improvements