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Flatfield
- Support for IEEE 2020-2024 Flare Method A analysis, a variant of ISO 18844 with more black dots. The chart can be purchased here./li>
Color/Tone
- Color Contrast Enhancement (CCE) Calculation for Color Targets, recommended by FDA (Cheng, 2023).
- New patch order for 36 patch dynamic range chart to reduce the impact of stray light ghost images on dynamic range measurements.
- Support for new ColorGray-44 test charts.
Stray Light/Flare
- Adds the ability to downsample the analysis image(s).
- Adds the ability to average the normalization factor from multiple reference images.
- Adds the ability to save/view diagnostic plots from the masking/source detection.
- Adds the ability to use a geometric camera model (simple pinhole or OpenCV) + circle to mask the analysis images.
- Adds the ability to manually place a circle for the reference image(s).
- Adds the ability to select a colormap for the color-mapped metric image output.
- Adds the ability to invert the colormap for the color-mapped metric image output.
- Adds the option to toggle the pink mask overlay in the color-mapped metric image output.
- Significantly improved the speed of video/frame writing (associated with the color-mapped metric image and histogram outputs).
- Improved the visual appearance and rendering consistency of color-mapped metric image and histogram outputs.
User Interface
- Launch Hardware Control from Imatest GUI.
- Drag and drop to update to new .ini file.
Minor Features
- Simatest now includes bilinear demosaicing.
- Image Processing can save multiple images as monochrome.
- Now using Python 3.11.
- Exiftool updated to 13.33.
Deprecated
- Color/Tone QPCard analysis deprecated.
- Color/Tone CMP analysis deprecated.
- MacOS Intel support will end in 2026.
Improvements
- Results updated stray light summary
Known Issues
- MacOS builds are not yet notarized. This is the current workaround:
- System Preferences. Security & Privacy.
- Under the General tab, click Open Anyway for Imatest Master.
- Select Open. Proceed with the installation from here
- Linux mp4 file read/write does not work