v0.19.0

This minor release includes refinements to the DetectImageObjects plugins, including a change to return semantic class labels instead of just integers, reducing the need for the caller to know intrinsics about the plugin/model in order to use it.

See below for additional updates and fixes.

Updates / New Features

CI

  • Updated CI unittests workflow to include codecov reporting. Reduced CodeCov report submission by skipping this step on scheduled runs.

Documentation

  • Updated CONTRIBUTING.md to reference smqtk-core’s CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Detect Image Objects

  • Updated the ResNetFRCNN to return as its class labels the label strings instead of integers, reducing the burden of users from having to repeatedly find and allocate the appropriate int-to-label map.

  • Update CenterNetVisdrone to lazy load its model on first inference.

  • Update CenterNetVisdrone to return VisDrone class labels instead of integers.

Unit Tests

  • Added unit tests for the CenterNetVisdrone plugin.

Utilities

  • Remove duplicate implementation of AxisAlignedBoundingBox, using the tested version that comes from the smqtk_image_io package.

Fixes

Detect Image Object

  • Fixed batched operation memory usage in ResNetFRCNN by loading only current batch into computation device memory. Previously all images were loaded at once.

  • Fixed device mapping when loading certain background architectures for CenterNetVisdrone.

Dependency Versions

  • Updated the developer dependency and locked version of ipython to address a security vulnerability.

  • Removed jedi = “^0.17.2” requirement since recent ipython = “^7.17.3” update appropriately addresses the dependency.