Release Notes IDS NXT 3.0

Introduction

hese release notes describe the new features and changes in the IDS NXT 3.0 release. This release updates the following components:

IDS lighthouse 3.0

You find the release notes for IDS lighthouse directly in IDS lighthouse: https://ids-lighthouse.ai/login/

IDS NXT OS 3.0

You find the release notes for IDS NXT OS 3.0.0 under Release Notes for IDS NXT OS 3.0.0

IDS NXT cockpit 3.0

This version of the IDS NXT cockpit supports Windows 10 64-bit (version 22H2) and for the first time Windows 11 64-bit (version 22H2).

New and changed functions

  • The user interface of the IDS NXT cockpit has been redesigned and restructured.
  • The revised device dashboard now contains information about active vision apps and displays the live image from the camera.
  • The IDS NXT cockpit stores the last opened view within a camera session when you switch from the camera configuration to the dashboard and back.
  • You can now upload or update multiple vision apps at the same time.
  • You can upload a user-defined image in the IDS NXT cockpit e.g. to use it in a vision app for tests. This user-defined image could previously only be set via a REST command.
  • The display of the live image in the IDS NXT cockpit can be subsequently enhanced using a special function ("Sharpening"). The function is enabled by default.
  • It is also possible to set the DNS (domain name server) via the IDS NXT cockpit. The DNS could previously only be set via a REST command.

General improvements

  • In the dialog for the firmware update, you can display or save a log containing details of the update.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the direct entry of numerical values for manual exposure. Prerequisite is the use of an IDS NXT OS version > 1.3.0.
  • The behaviour of ROI (region of interest) in Crawler has been enhanced and adapted to the behaviour of ROI in the camera.
  • The displayed values in the ROI generator were incorrect. This has been fixed so that the values now match the ROI values of the camera.
  • Fixed a bug with the sliders that caused decimal values between 0 and 1 to be rounded by mistake.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented a new IP address from being saved correctly when the IP address was changed in the Finder.

Vision apps

Classifier 3.0.0

  • In the user interface of the vision app, the general term "heat map" was replaced by the more specific term "attention map". This change has also been implemented in the REST interface of the vision app, so that corresponding REST calls may need to be updated.
  • The identifiers of the configurables in the REST interface have been adjusted: a_cnns has been renamed to cnn, enable_heatmap to enable_attentionmap and x_errorthreshold to errorthreshold.
  • The logging of the vision app has been improved.

CNN Evaluator 2.5.1

  • To display status information, now an information element is used instead of a configurable. In addition, the messages of the status information became more detailed.
  • The logging of the vision app has been improved.

Object Detector 2.1.1

  • The logging of the vision app has been improved.
  • General improvements

IDS NXT Vision App Creator 3.0

  • From version 3.0 on, the operating system Windows 11 64-bit is supported for the first time.
  • The IDS NXT API has been updated to version 3.0.0 so that you can program vision apps for IDS NXT OS 3.0.0.
  • TensorFlow lite has been integrated into the IDS NXT SDK libraries. You no longer need to build TensorFlow lite specifically for the camera, you can do the calculations directly in the IDS NXT framework.

Status: 2023-02-09