Version 0.2.0

Pix4Dengine Server SDK 0.2.0 is a beta release. Forward and backward compatibility are not guaranteed.

What’s new

Algorithmic improvements

• Radiometry: software compensation of sensor drift in images from FLIR cameras. This improves the quality of orthomosaic images produced. Note that these improvements only apply to merged outputs, not tiled ones.
• Point cloud and mesh: a point cloud outlier filter is provided. Removing noise from the point cloud can reduce or eliminate mesh artifacts.

Other improvements

• The Pix4Dengine Server SDK no longer relies on the Pix4Dmapper application.
• The SDK is provided as a Debian package that includes the Pix4D photogrammetry runtime.

Bug fixes

• The high resolution mesh could be blurry while the medium resolution was sharp
• The mesh texture could be incorrectly generated on Ubuntu
• The contour .dxf exports could have missing contour lines

Compatibility issues

• The function pix4dengine.create_split_projects() is removed.
• The class pix4dengine.enginewrapper.EngineWrapper() is removed. Related to this:
  • Login and logout are managed by the pix4dengine.login_seat and pix4dengine.logout_seat functions
  • Setting the maximum number of CPU cores to use is done when instantiating a Pipeline
  • The pix4dengine.settings sub-module is removed: calls to set_exe_path() and get_exe_path() functions must be removed from your code

Known issues

These are known issues that will be fixed in upcoming releases:

• Projects with no geo-tagged images cannot be created
• Point cloud filtering configuration parameters do not appear in listed algorithmic options (AlgoOption enumeration)
• Changing the coordinate system of images is not supported
• Login may fail for users holding both an ENGINE-SERVER and an ENGINE-CLOUD license

Supported platforms

OS/Distribution	Python
Linux/Ubuntu 18.04 64bit	3.6 64bit

Microsoft Windows will be supported in a future release.