Imatest 23.1 — Release Notes

• New slanted-edge-based measurements including Information Capacity, SNRi, Noise Power Spectrum, and Noise Equivalent Quanta.
• New Settings interface: With improved user experience and search. These new settings replace the ROI Options, Options II, Options III in previous releases.
• Flatfield: Addition of EMVA1288 row/column noise calculations.
• Main Window All image formats now can be previewed, loading time improvements for large sets of images.
• Image Metadata Storage: Importing EXIF information for preview of relevant information about each image.
• Improved SFRreg Detection using an artificial intelligence model for all targets with registration mark detection (eSFR ISO, 36-Patch DR, Contrast Resolution, Siemens star).

• Gamutvision 2.0, incorporation of a color gamut viewer originally launched by Imatest in 2006.

Stray Light

• Added ability to normalize by a user-provided value.
• Added ability to have separate masking settings for the reference image.
• Output pixel count above a threshold.
• Switches to median aggregation in reference image normalization.
• Added ability to directly use the image processing mask method.
• Added ability to set the threshold in image processing masking via Otsu’s method.
• Added a minimum source threshold to the image processing method.
• Added other compensation factors for normalization via a reference image.
• Larger summary plots, updates to nomenclature.

Arbitrary Charts

• Video support
• Distortion parameter for supporting distorted targets.
• VCX exposure adaptation measurement.

Minor Features

• Tour Mode starts from the welcome window to demonstrate the usage of the new main window.
• Improvement of default settings for slanted-edge region selection, stepchart ROI fill-factor and Delta-E 00 color correction.
• Color/tone: split plot improvement to include exposure-matched reference value.
• Offline Floating License Server: Allows deployment of concurrent licenses and virtual machines in an offline environment.
• IT/EXE: Improved command line interface.

Known Issues

• Linux mp4 file read/write does not work