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  • Published on Apr 8, 2025
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GCT 3.0.0 (April 2025)

Release Notes:

Changes and new features

  • Added multiple device support

    Configuration settings for an encoder signal and image processing tool interface.

  • Added color calibration wizzard (Line to documentation)

    Error image

  • Added First / Each line info block analysis  (link to documentation)

    Graph displaying line count versus image row with selected line count option highlighted.

  • Added popup for starting PRNU / DSNU

  • Added saving 10 and 12 bit images in MSB

  • Added default path file format on update/download

  • Added Windows redistributable 2017

  • Adjusted installer

  • Changed configuration widget for mono and RGBA cameras

  • Improved control experience on Windows 11

  • Improved formatting on high resolution screens

  • Improved plot ROI selection

  • Improved UI formatting on Windows 11

  • Modernized gct app look and feel

  • Made flash functionality visible for certain devices

  • Made network adapter configuration batch script run on Windows 11

  • Made Kithara Windows 11 compatible

  • Reduced amount of error messages in log window

  • Updated docs

  • Updated Kithara driver to 11.18

  • Extend target value for infrared channel when generating prnu reference file

Bugfixes

  • Fixed trigger delay lines being overwritten

  • Fixed force IP when pressing set button

  • Fixed setting camera IP

  • Fixed enable trigger option when line is already in use

  • Fixed upload calibration file from camera to PC

  • Fixed load device description from disk

  • Fixed image display issue

  • Fixed set trigger delay lines on allPIXA neo

  • Fixed PRNU for mono camera

  • Fixed Flash Enable checkbox

  • Fixed opening 10 bit images that were too dark

  • Fixed crash when closing neo camera

  • Fixed ROI button for plot

  • Fixed brightness and contrast in PRNU Wizard

  • Fixed missing feature information

  • Fixed crash when using MONO8 pixel format images in PRNU

  • Fixed wrong pixel value in 10 and 12 bit reference image

GCT 2.8.0 (September 2024)

Release Notes:

Changes and new features

  • GCT checks the connectivity to the camera periodically adn informs the user if the camera connection is lost.

  • The design of FrameTrigger and LineTrigger plugins are modified and will be constructed based on the availability of "FrameBurst" feature.

  • Zoom functinality is added to the "Select ROI" window. Helps with increased correctness to select ROI.

  • DSNU and PRNU calibration data generation is extended for MONO8 type images.

  • Qt6 libraries are used to design the UI elements of GCT application.

  • In Performance-Tool application, Image-Info-block can be deactivated.

  • Modification in Kithara-TL for better error handling and suppressing error and warning messages.

  • Documentation of "Calibration_Generator" sample project is updated in the source file.

  • "TestPattern-Generator" and "User-Set-Control" plugin tabs are moved to "Acquisition-Control" tab.

  • Visual-Studio redistributable(14.40.33810.0) is added to the GCT-Installer application. The redistributable is installed by default.

  • Shading reference data(DSNU/PRNU) can be created from RGB10, RGB12, RGBA10 RGBA12, MONO10 and MONO12 images.

Bug fixes

  • Single channel view mode for offline mode images functioning is fixed.

  • In PRNU generation, correct calibration data will be generated with extrapolation and ROI setup.

  • User-set cannot be changed anymore during image acquisition.

GCT 2.7.1 (June 2024) 

Release Notes: 

Changes and new features

  • Outlier suppression will be done only for pixels in ROI area between the left and right extrapolation columns.

  • In DSNU/PRNU dialog, line plots and histograms will be updated and displayed for the the selected ROI region.

  • GCT recognizes that a camera has been powered off and disconnected and informs the user with a dialog.

  • User-set load button is disabled during streaming.

Bug fixes 

  • Fixed problem in generating sample projects with cmake.

  • Histogram and line-plots are displayed for the image captured in Frame-trigger mode.

  • Fixed Select-ROI feature of line plots in DSNU/PRNU generator dialog. 

  • Exposure time is updated properly when line-rate is changed. 

  • Single-channel view functions properly in the offline mode. 

  • Bugs in PRNU reference data creation with extrapolation are fixed. 

GCT 2.7.0 (April 2024) 

Release Notes: 

Changes and new features 

  • New Functions added to CSI SDK  

  • SDK Functions to generate calibration data and upload it to camera and save the file in PC is added.

  • A new sample to demonstrate usage of DSNU/PRNU generator SDK functions.

  • Opening and displaying 10 bit and 12 bit images in GCT viewer.    

  • Images can be saved in LZW compressed TIFF format.

  • In the Adjustment tool, the view type, single view channel is enabled.  

  • Mono image's line-plot and histogram feature is enabled.

  • A message box for un-/successful load/save of user-set is displayed. 

Bug fixes

  • Spin boxes in Flash-controller plugin are disabled during streaming. 

  • Added "Image Count" section in the status bar of the central viewer. 

  • Added the possibility to save histogram and plot views. 

  • The image will be saved only if there is sufficient memory available in the PC.

  • Right histogram and line-plots are displayed for last captured image, in frame-trigger mode. 

  • Fixed GCT-crash issue in master-slave mode device connection. 

  • The right device error code and description are displayed in a message box. 

  • The right range of axes values in lineplots and histograms can be set. 

GCT 2.6.1 (January 2024) 

Release Notes: 

Bug Fixes 

  • fixed bug of setting led flash pattern duration incorrectly in the configuration widget Flash controller.

  • fixed bug of setting color transformation value incorrectly in the configuration widget Color.

  • fixed bug of DSNU/PRNU not working for 16k image.

GCT 2.6.0 (December 2023) 

Release Notes: 

Changes and new features

  • a new view type "vertical line plot" has been added.

  • improved "horizontal line plot" ui.

  • added link to online documentation.

  • a function for saving 10- and 12-bit Tiff images in GCT has been added.

  • added support for saving compressed TIFF files.

  • refactored the line trigger plugin and frame trigger plugin.

  • updated Kithara driver to 11.13. 

 Changed obsolete names

  • Kithara driver from LakesightDrv to TKHVision.

  • Kithara GenTL from ls_tl_gev_kithara.cti to tkh_tl_gev_kithara.cti.

 Bug Fixes

  • fixed streaming image issue with Kithara TL when stop acquisition.

  • fixed general problem of image acquisition.

  • fixed bug in configuration widget for sensor sensitivity of mono cameras.

GCT 2.5.0 (October 2023)

Download the Documentation for  GCT Version 2.5.

 Release Notes: 

  • Added split view functionality

  • Improvements in DSNU/PRNU: Calculation improvement to suppress outliers like dust areas, Improvement to specify roi

  • Added image buffer for image 

  • Updated Filter Driver to V2.7.2

  • Updated Kithara Driver to 11.12

  • Performance Tool using CSI API

  • The SDK function "csiGetNextImage" has been modified. The second function argument is changed from csiNewBufferEventData* to csiNewBufferEventData**. This output variable that contains the acquired image data must be modified accordingly

  • A new view-type "Single-channel" is added. This view type displays just the selected channel's image data onto the image view

  • Bugfixes

GCT 2.4.0 (May 2023) 

Download the Documentation for GCT Version 2.4. 

GCT 2.3.0

Download the Documentation for GCT Version 2.3.

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