Updates 2025/04/11

The most exciting new feature is the tight integration of Meta's Segment Anything 2 model for annotating images (object detection and image segmentation) thanks to the Deep Java Library project (DJL). You no longer have to launch a Docker image through a separate flow in the background in order to take advantage of the model. See this video for Segment Anything 2 in action: https://youtu.be/5ln2c2kgMAc

Fixes

• Reduced the default minimum width for views in GenericObjectEditor property sheet to 100 pixels to avoid having to resize the GOE dialog unnecessarily.

• adams-core:

  • The LocalJobRunner now stops jobs from the end of the list when terminating, to avoid new jobs being launched.

  • The Block control actor now only displays a grammar in its global info if one is available.

  • IncVariable now synchronizes the retrieval/setting of updated variable values to avoid race condition.

  • The MergeReport transformer now allows the source/storage item to be a ReportHandler as well.

• adams-imaging:

  • The AreaRatio and IntersectOverUnionRatio overlap algorithms now correctly initialize the matches; missing overlaps were (ironically) missed.

  • The CompareAnnotationWithPrediction image segmentation operation now corretly limits the layers to the supplied ones (it was removing them instead).

• adams-pdf: The PDF viewer works again.

• adams-weka and adams-weka-lts: Added the -fix-att-count flag to savitzky-golay filters to keep backwards compatibility but also to provide ability to output the correct number of attributes (misses last one in unfixed version).

Changes

• Any multi-page pane (e.g., the list with flows in the Flow editor) now allows moving items up/down using the keyboard: ALT+Up/Down.

• The GenericArrayEditor now has a right-click popup menu for the list for copying command-lines to the clipboard.

• adams-core:

  • The LaunchTee and LaunchTrigger control actors now allow limiting the number of threads running concurrently.

  • The Display sink can limit the number of displayed lines now.

  • Added the "bringToFront" option to the Breakpoint control actor to make the user aware of that a breakpoint was triggered (off by default)

  • The Time flow execution listener can output the table to a CSV file now.

  • The right-click popup menu in the Flow editor now offers to copy storage and variable names to the clipboard under Copy (more).

  • Actor processors that generate graphical output in the Flow editor can be rerun now via the "Rerun" button at the bottom right of the output.

  • upgraded mysql-connector-j to 9.2.0

  • the About dialog now uses a searchable/sortable table to make it easier to navigate

  • The StringReplace transformer now has the useDotAll option which allows matching across multiple lines.

  • The TryCatch control actor can leave the source actor's full name/error type out of the combined message.

• adams-event: added the SubProcessEvent standalone and its class hierarchy for processing data from trigger events.

• adams-imaging: The ConfusionMatrix image segmentation container operation now allows specifying a custom name for the unlabeled pixels.

• adams-json: upgraded json-smart to 2.5.2 to address CVE-2024-57699

• adams-pdf:

  • upgraded icepdf to 7.2.2 and pdfbox to 3.0.3

  • added tools menu to PDF Viewer for extracting: pages, text, images

  • The Image PDF proclet now allows specifying the type of scaling to apply: SCALE_TO_FIT (default) and SCALE_PERCENT.

• adams-redis: upgraded lettuce-core to 6.5.5.RELEASE to address CVE-2025-25193

• adams-rsync: upgraded rsync4j to 3.3.0-3

• adams-spreadsheet: The Spreadsheet file viewer now can set optimal widths or specific columns widths in a spreadsheet via the main menu (can also be applied to all currently loaded spreadsheets).

• adams-applications: The Debian packages and Docker images now use Java 17.

• adams-weka and adams-weka-lts:

  • Added the NUMBER_TOTAL evaluation statistic to retrieve the total number of instances used in the evaluation.

  • Added support for prediction to the followng PLS algorithms: KernelPLS, NIPALS, OPLS, PRM, SparsePLS, VCPLS.

• adams-spectral-2dim-core:

  • The FieldInstanceGenerator now has the prefix option that gets applied to the attribute names.

  • The MultiSpectrumRemove transformer is now deprecated, instead MultiSpectrumOperation in conjunction with Remove should be used.

• adams-webservice-core: upgraded cxf-core to 3.6.6 to address CVE-2025-23184

Additions

• adams-core:

  • Added the JAIEximplicitImageWriter which offers more control over format-specific output parameters.

  • The GetMapKeyValuePairs outputs all key/value pairs of the map as Object arrays of length two.

  • Added new post-processors for the TryCatch control actor: MultiErrorPostProcessor, RemoveExceptionPrefix, RemoveStackTrace.

• adams-weka and adams-weka-lts:

  • Added a Preview browser plugin for displaying classifier evaluation summary text files as table.

  • Added the PLSRegressor Weka classifier that can make use of a wider range of PLS algorithms than PLSClassifier.

• adams-imaging:

  • The Object annotation and Image segmentation interfaces now have an Export tool that allows saving the current view as an image (png or jpg).

  • Segment anything 2 support has been added to the Object annotation/Image segmentation interfaces as SAM2 tool. This tool does not require any running Docker images.

  • Added the SimplifyPolygons object filter, which can reduce the number of points used from model-generated polygons significantly.

• adams-imaging-djl: New module utilizing the Deep Java Library, initially only for offering Segment Anything 2 annotating support in the ImageSegmentationAnnotator and ImageObjectAnnotator transformers.

• adams-jep-weka and adams-jep-weka-lts: new modules that makes Python available in Weka using the Jep library.

• adams-weka and adams-weka-lts: added the WekaInitializeScriptedClassifiers to prepare ScriptedClassifier instances in storage for making predictions using this actor as the flow context.

• adams-spectral-2dim-core: added the MultiSpectrumOperation transformer that applies the specified operation, removing spectra based on type or outliers.