Releases: Blickfeld/blickfeld-qb2
Releases · Blickfeld/blickfeld-qb2
RONJA v2.8
- WebGUI: Pin events in the alarm history by referencing the event-id in the viewer URL.
- WebGUI: Add
shift + V shortcut in viewer to synchronize RTSP video-stream perspective.
| Synchronization of WebGUI viewport with RTSP video stream output |
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- Percept: Add object awareness (BETA) to motion detection using the dynamic background model
- Skip continuous model update in the region where an object is detected
- Re-initialize background model region of static objects after configurable timeout.
- Percept: Accelerate convergence of dynamic background model during initialization.
- Percept: Improve initial estimate for tracking fast moving objects.
- ONVIF: Enable RTSP video-streaming over UDP supporting Qognify & Avigilon VMS.
Patch Release v2.8.4
- Fix motion coloring in RTSP video stream
Patch Release v2.8.5
- Fix vulnerability in handling of websocket connections
MATHILDA v2.7
- Documentation of core concepts and algorithms used in on-device point cloud processing.
- QbProtect: Auto-start perception pipeline when alarm history is enabled.
- Improved MQTT-telemetry with support for Events as payload type.
- ONVIF authorization: support for WS-UsernameToken.
- ONVIF events: WS-BaseNotification support for alarm transmission.
- Support and corresponding documentation for Geutebrueck VMS via ONVIF interface.
| Qb2 integrated with Geutebrueck VMS |
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Patch Release v2.7.3
- Bugfix: Improved stability of recovery mode
Patch Release v2.7.4
- Bugfix: Fix race condition where lifetime counter stopped incrementing leading to wrong alarm history visualization.
- Flow: Automatic renewal of access token for external devices ahead of expiration.
- ONVIF: Fix duplicate events being delivered on pull-point subscriptions in Milestone VMS.
- Bugfix: Avoid slow loading WebGUI in restricted networks by limiting DNS-lookups.
LINA v2.6
Highlights
- Localization: Timezone configuration for correct local time display
- Diagnostics: Remove redundant data from report to increase download speed
- Diagnostics: Add button to run the internal self test
- Compliance to 802.1X authentication for wired and wireless networks
- Improved stability of video streaming
| Time zone configuration |
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MILAN v2.5
Highlights
- Directional / Traversal Security Zone: Raise security alarms based on object direction
- GPU-based video rendering: HD resolution, full rendering rate, 20Hz output stream, and performance improvements
- Quick edit mode for zones with new transform controls concept: Double-click on zones to edit
- Support for product license configuration
- Temporal filters for security zones and refactoring of configuration panel
- Upgrade of Blickfeld Flow to the latest Node-Red version v4.0
- Allow unavailable sensors in QbVolume projects and introduce minimum coverage parameter for volume zones
- Improve long-term stability for low vertical field of views
- Disable 5GHz wireless support to simplify outdoor usage in many countries
| Directional security zone |
GPU-based video rendering |
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Patch Release v2.5.4
- Improve long-term stability of diagnostics module and video stream
LENA v2.4
Highlights
- On-device alarm history: Records and replays zone states & object streams in the WebGUI viewer.
- New volume zone type: Support bunkers with a cylindrical bottom and a cone-shaped top.
- Operating system upgrade: Results in significant performance improvements and security enhancements.
- Health service for ONVIF interface: Number of active VMS clients with served subscription topics and raised events count.
- Several small bug fixes.
| Quick inspect alarms |
Motion replay of alarm |
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Patch Release v2.4.9
- Bugfix: Improve reconnection behavior to Blickfeld Services
Patch Release v2.4.10
- Video: Add visualization API which allows clockwise rotations of the RTSP stream
Patch Release v2.4.11
- Stabilize memory footprint
- Bugfix: Fix permanent failure of video / RTSP stream
- Bugfix: Fix processing failure during motion replay
Patch Release v2.4.12
- Bugfix: Fix memory leak issue of the processing pipeline and user flows
OLIVIA v2.3
Highlights
General
- Diagnostics: Show CPU / RAM utilization, core temperature and operating hours.
- User-Management: Allow permanent sessions by setting the "Remember Me" toggle on login.
- Zone-Management: Option to disable zones for processing.
- Sensor-Setup: Option to disable sensors for processing.
- Firmware: Improve stability and feedback of firmware upload.
- Bugfix: Avoid deadlock when sensor-setup or zones are changed in swarm mode.
| System Utilization Diagnostics |
Permanent Sessions via "Remember Me" toggle |
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QbProtect
- Percept: Improve jitter and confidence of zone alarm and occupancy conditions.
- Percept: Improve noise behavior of tracking algorithm.
- Percept: Introduce API for intrusion events on zone- and global level.
- Video / RTSP: Generate health information (number of sessions, render performance).
- Video / RTSP: Render termination screen with error message on stream failure.
- Video / RTSP: Correctly highlight the foreground with dynamic background subtraction.
Volume Monitoring
- Bugfix: Fix occupancy zone evaluation in volume projects.
Patch Release v2.3.6
- Bugfix: Fix login for devices without time synchronization.
- Bugfix: ONVIF pull event subscription returned without awaiting the specified timeout.
Patch Release v2.3.7
- Volume: Support cylinder height for cone-shaped volume zones
- Bugfix: Fix export of custom flows
- Bugfix: Improve factory reset
- Bugfix: Handle downgrade from v2.4+
Patch Release v2.3.8
- Video / RTSP: Apply resource usage limit for more stability
- Firmware: More efficient point cloud acquisition
AMELIE v2.2
Highlights
General
- System: Export & import all configurations (zones, scan-patterns, flows etc.).
- WebGUI: Configurable point cloud recording duration (default: 1 minute).
- Diagnostics: Gather detailed information about network link speed and settings obtained via DHCP.
- Sensor Setup: Compute ground plane alignment using plane segmentation on point cloud.
- Bugfix: Network default gateway was not set via DHCP under certain conditions.
| Import & Export |
Network Diagnostics |
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QbProtect
- Percept: Expose more alarm conditions of the object-based zone in the WebGUI
- Intruder lifetime: Minimum lifetime of an object before it can trigger an alarm.
- Intruder track length: Minimum distance an object has to travel before it can trigger an alarm.
- Intruding duration: Minimum time the object has to intrude a zone before an alarm is raised.
- Percept: Estimate covered distance of tracked objects.
- Percept: Derive movement direction and velocity of tracked objects.
- ONVIF / RTSP: Non-static points in the point cloud (foreground) are colored with the highlighting color.
| Video Stream with motion highlighting |
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Patch Release v2.2.4
- Bugfix: Improve interpolation for cone-shaped volume zones
- Bugfix: Untracked objects were not visualized
- Bugfix: Percept streaming API did not forward errors on pipeline exceptions
MIRA v2.1
Highlights
General
- Flow: Gracefully disable node-red safe mode so that flows will run continuously.
- Recording: Improve data-handling and recording performance.
- User Management: Add admin view for user-management to add, delete, block or reset accounts on the Qb2.
- Factory reset: Method to delete all user configuration and set the device to the factory state.
| User Management Admin View |
Factory Reset |
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- Enhancement: Add object tracking based on joint integrated probabilistic data association (JIPDA).
- Enhancement: Publish additional properties (lifetime, intrusion status, tracking confidence) for tracked objects.
- Enhancement: Filter objects which consist of mostly background points (e.g. vegetation).
- Enhancement: Bounding box calculation for detected objects by using the 5th to 95th percentile.
- WebGUI: Extend network view to configure NTP time synchronization.
- WebGUI: Display all point clouds for multi sensor setups
- Feature Preview: Distributed processing for object tracking across multiple sensors (swarm).
| Distributed processing for object tracking across multiple sensors (swarm) |
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QbProtect
- ONVIF: Support for motion and zone events via pull-point mechanism.
- ONVIF: Support for tampering & on-device processing health system events.
- ONVIF: Video resolution set to 800x600 with frame-rate of 7Hz.
- ONVIF: support for events in Milestone VMS.
- Support basic-authentication for ONVIF & RTSP video streaming.
- Option to configure the sizes for Object based security zones.
Volume Monitoring
- Add Occupancy zone to conditionally enable volume measurement.
- Zone editing: translate zone in rotated directions when the zone has been rotated.
Patch Release v2.1.3
- Bugfix: Tracked objects which were no longer visible to any sensor caused zones to trigger an alarm.
- Bugfix: Point cloud viewer only shows tracked objects which are currently visible to at least one sensor.
- Bugfix: Initial background point cloud now contains the creation timestamp.
- Bugfix: Allow
deepcopy & pickle of protobuf messages obtained through the blickfeld_qb2 pip package.
- Bugfix: Swarm enabled sensor setup no longer fails to create an application key when user management is disabled.
AEGIS v2.0
Highlights
General
- Enhanced viewer featuring augmented reality, object visualization, map integration, and full-screen mode, etc.
- User Management has been moved out of BETA and is now recommended for all sensors
- Uniform scan pattern implemented with high density and significantly improved distribution of trigger points
- Extended recording functionality now supports additional metadata and raw point cloud frames.
- Overhaul of internal processing for higher performance and reliability
- Improved recovery mode and updated recovery manual
| Classic scan pattern (old) |
Uniform high density scan pattern (new) |
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QbProtect
- Object detection and object-based security zones
- ONVIF ALPHA (this implementation is not yet ONVIF conformant, and intrusions are not yet forwarded): Initial support with RTSP video streaming (tested against Senstar and Milestone VMS)
- Implementation of Foveation/Region of Interest scan pattern to improve detection capabilities for fence security use cases
| Object-based intrusion detection |
ONVIF Video Stream |
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Volume Monitoring
- Enhanced zone and label rendering in the viewer
- Improved sensor setup with enhanced error handling, distinct color representation for sensors, and support for application keys
- Improved stability and health messages
| Viewer with map |
Improved sensor setup |
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Breaking Changes
- Security: A warning is raised when user management is enabled. Devices without user management are deprecated. Refer to the migration guide for assistance.
- WebGUI: The previous "Viewer" has been relocated to "Configuration / Zone Management." The revamped viewer is now read-only and solely intended for visualization purposes.
- Processing: Point-based security zones may exhibit slight behavioral differences due to the application of a voxel filter with a 5cm threshold on the foreground. It is advisable to validate and calibrate the detection system post-upgrade.
- Processing: Existing static backgrounds cannot be migrated to the major version. They will be automatically regenerated on the initial launch.
- Processing: Security zones do no longer operate in parallel with volume zones. They are automatically disabled, and a warning is issued.
- Processing: Security zones now only support a single sensor. If multiple sensors are configured, only the first sensor will be utilized, and a warning will be raised.
Patch Release v2.0.9
- Enhancement: The perception algorithm for subtracting the static background has been improved significantly. Separation of foreground and background is now less sensitive to noise or artifacts in the point cloud acquisition.
- Breaking change: The API to configure the static background subtraction has been renamed from
octree to static. Please make sure, that scripts or custom integrations of the Qb2 API are upgraded to the new version.
- Bugfix: Wrong limits were applied for the scan-pattern configuration on initial load of the WebGUI page.
- Bugfix: Allow creation of application keys with higher access level than
AUTHORIZED via WebGUI.
| Application key with ADMIN privileges |
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Patch Release v2.0.11
- Enhancement: Data handling of the stored background was improved to only be stored when changed.
- Bugfix: Internal watch calls (e.g. for scan-pattern) handle cancellation properly. This might have resulted in unresponsive configuration views.
- Bugfix: Start / Stop behavior of perception pipeline stabilized which might have resulted in a high number of clients on core-processing module.
- Bugfix: State of security zones now contain the
num_detected_points attribute again.
⚠ Due to security enhancements, downgrading to a previous release is not supported after updating.
CHIARA v1.12
Highlights
| Login Page |
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Patch Release v1.12.4
- Bugfix: Static IP configuration in WebGUI enforced DNS server
- Bugfix: Support timeout with blickfeld-qb2-method of Blickfeld Flow
- Bugfix: Allow authorized client connections from C++ clients
- Bugfix: Only allow yaw rotation of volume zone
- Bugfix: Reboot button in WebGUI with proper overlay
Patch Release v1.12.7
- Bugfix: Improved beam control
- Bugfix: Increased auto-stop duration from 1 minute to 5 minutes to avoid too many device restarts
⚠ The release cannot be downgraded after an update
