Updates 2020/12/17

Bunch of tweaks/fixes and, thanks to working on an image segmentation project, also quite a few additions related to image processing. The Preprocess panel in the Weka Investigator got more user friendly, allowing you to convert some attribute types as well as reordering attributes without using a filter (well, filters are used behind the scene to achieve it).

Fixes

  • The debug view of a flow with external actors is no longer displayed in a separate page, but by using a splitview of the same panel (debug=top, actualflow=bottom). This fixes the display problem when debugging flows with external actors.

  • The history available through the right-click menu of chooser panels for files and dirs now disambigues the captions of its menu items by prefixing them with parent dir(s).

  • In the Debug panel of the Flow editor, once the inspection dialog has been closed, it no longer pops up when selecting another storage item.

  • The DirectoryValueDefinition and FileValueDefinition used by EnterManyValues now apply the file chooser title option.

  • adams-meta: The ProcessActor transformer now forwards the original actor in case the ModifyingProcessor did not actually modify the actor.

  • adams-weka: The PCA tab no longer changes the class attribute of the chosen dataset, but works with a copy of the dataset instead.

Changes

  • Added the rounding type RINT and added support for rounding at a specified decimal, available in Round and MathExpression conversions/actors.

  • adams-json:

    • The transformers GetJsonKeys, GetJsonValue and SetJsonValue now accept strings (representing JSON) as input as well.

    • The JsonToReport conversion now allows specifying a prefix for the field names.

    • Upgraded gson dependency to 2.8.6

  • adams-net: Upgraded requests4j to 0.2.1

  • adams-spreadsheet: The SpreadSheetSelectSubset transformer can now preview the select row(s) with a chosen preview generator.

  • adams-scripts: improved checks on Windows for Java executable and error messages are now more helpful (command-prompt window doesn't just disappear anymore).

  • adams-meka: upgraded to 1.9.3

  • adams-ml: The ActualVsPredictedPlot now allows the user to specify a custom paintlet (e.g., the new MetaDataValuePaintlet).

  • adams-weka:

    • Classifier errors in the Weka Investigator now support using custom paintlets.

    • Upgraded Weka to 3.9.4-fork-0.0.3 to take advantage of the ConverterFileChooser upgrades

  • adams-weka-lts:

    • Upgraded Weka to 3.9.0-fork-0.0.11 to take advantage of the ConverterFileChooser upgrades

  • adams-imaging: The PNGImageReader now uses a color provider to replace the colors of PNGs with a palette (the reader does not have access to the color palette itself, unfortunately).

Additions

  • The ArrayToReport conversion turns any array into a Report object, using the array index, suffix and prefix to generate field names.

  • The MetaDataValuePaintlet paints a meta-data value (with circle as fallback if value not present) at the position of the data point (centered).

  • Added colors providers for color blindness (8, 12, 15 and 24 colors), which can be used in plots. They providers are based on palettes from http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/colorblind/palettes.mhtml

  • The RelativeDir transformer turns paths into relative ones by removing the specified path prefix.

  • The IterateFilesWithProgressBar flow template generates a sub-flow that iterates files from a directory that matched the provided regular expression. Uses a ProgressBar for providing feedback to the user.

  • adams-imaging:

    • Added PNGImageReader for reading PNG images using the pngj library.

    • Added basic support for image segmentation annotations: ImageSegmentationFileReader, ImageSegmentationAnnotator and ImageSegmentationFileWriter. The flow adams-imaging-image_segmentation_annotation.flow uses these actors.

    • The GrayOrIndexedImageWriter image writer turns gray or ones with an indexed palette into color ones using the specified color provider. Useful for making image segmentation images human-viewable.

    • The ReplaceColor BufferedImage transformer plugin allows swapping out colors in an image.

    • The ReplacePredominantColor BufferedImage transformer allows replacing the dominant color (e.g., the background) with another color.

    • The ImageObjectAnnotator transformer supersedes the ImageAnnotator actor, with a more flexible architecture underneath the and undo/redo support.

    • The preview plugin ColorDistributionHandler displays a table with pixel counts per color for an image.

    • With the ImageSegmentationContainerOperation transformer operations on segmentation containers like comparing predictions with annotations are now possible.

    • The ObjectAnnotationsToImageSegmentationLayers conversion generates image segmentation layers from object shape annotations, using the labels of the object as layer name.

  • adams-spectral-2dmin-core: Added the filters for updating a spectrum's report based on on other report values: ConditionalReportField, ReportFieldFromStringValue, ReportFieldFromStringValueWithLookup.

  • adams-spreadsheet:

    • Added support for JFreeChart bar charts.

    • Added support for reordering rows in a spreadsheet using SpreadSheetReorderRows.

  • adams-weka and adams-weka-lts:

    • The FromPredictions evaluation plugin for classification (in the Weka Investigator) allows you to load a spreadsheet and generate the usual outputs available from a regular evaluation run.

    • The Scatter plot tab in the Weka Investigator allows you to plot two attributes from a dataset against each other using various paintlets.

    • The Reorder attributes, Checked to date, Checked to nominal and Checked to string actions got added to the drop down list of actions of Attributes box in the Preprocess tab.

    • The AnyToString filter turns any attribute into a string one.

    • The StringToDate filter turns string attributes into date ones, using the specified parse format (eg "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").

  • adams-visualstats: The ScatterPaintletMetaDataValue paintlet for scatter plots (like PCA/PLS in Weka Investigator) allows the plotting of a meta-data value as string rather than using Xs or circles (uses circle as fallback if value not present).

Have a great Xmas break!