arivis Vision4D 2.12.5 Release Notes June 2017

Visualization in the 4D Viewer

New & improved

• ​new: lighting setup is included in preferences
• new: lighting palette now has options for shininess 
• new: point light option added
• new: ability to choose the timestamp font in movie export
• new: option to specify volumetric data and segment clipping separately
• new: ability to edit the Bleach Correction parameters for exponential fitting manually
• improved: handling for bookmarks from older arivis Vision4D versions
• improved: squad interpolation for Storyboard movie export rotations
• improved: display relative time stamp in exported movies

Analysis and Annotations

New & improved

• new: ability to do a pipeline run at downscaled image data resolution
• new: Background Subtraction operator
• new: completely reworked Store Annotation operator allows to handle multiple input at once
• new: Store Annotation operator will be added automatically
• new: ability to modify tags in the Store Annotation operator
• new: Store Annotation operator will keep annotation color
• new: option to keep stored annotations even if a pipeline undo is performed
• new: ability to copy selected annotations to Analysis or Document storage manually
• new: reworked Import Annotation operator UI with auto complete for tags
• new: reworked Annotation Mask operator with the option to choose by tag and tag auto complete
• new: ability to combine multiple segment or track filter in one pipeline step
• new: Ratio Filter is now part of the Segment Filter operator
• new: each operator in a pipeline can define color settings for the output
• new: a segmenter or tracker operator can customize the name pattern used for newly created annotations
• new: Export Annotation operator will show useful features only (depending on if the input are tracks or segments)
• new: Export Annotation operator will export the names of the tracks in group by track mode
• new: Coloc Filter exports filtered results only to the Excel file
• much improved Intensity Threshold UI
• improved: random color option is more random now
• improved: Dual Threshold Segmentation operator removed, required core intensity is now an optional parameter of the Intensity Threshold Segmentation operation
• improved: multi-threading support for Blob Finder
• improved: pipeline reconfiguration on pixel size or structure changes
• improved: a better structured context menu in the Annotation window

Import

• new: Slidebook (.sld) Media Handler
• new: VGI/VOL Media Handler

Misc

• new: viewer label shows scope name (if useful)
• movie export: regular video formats (avi, mp4) no longer show a warning when selected
• measure option in the 2D Viewer has been renamed to "scale bar"

Public Preview

These features or potential new modules are available as a free beta-version during our development process after which they may become purchasable modules. Feedback is very welcome ( support@arivis.com ) and will help to further develop the software.

• Interactive Feature Statistics in the Annotation window with Timeline View to sort, analyze and visualize tracks and features of segments along a track over time
• 3D Volume fusion & Landmark Registration (Scope Fusion)
  • new: ability to run Scope Fusion at subsampled image data resolution
  • new: copy & paste Scope Fusion transformation parameters
  • new: ability to manually fine-tune landmark-based calculated transformation parameters in Scope Fusion
  • new: last Scope Fusion settings are preserved as long as Vision4D is running
  • improved: Audit trail entries for Scope Fusion
  • new: Info Viewer shows Scope offset