[Openicc] gsoc

[Hal V. Engel]

One other thing for other OpenICC GSoC mentors and admins.  I have completed 
the GSoC OpenICC final program survey as well as the LProf project final 
survey.   Other mentors and admins should feel free to also edit the final 
program survey to add their own comments and perhaps modify my responses. 

Looking at Cyrille's final survey for the HDR Tone Mapping project I see that 
he also considered his student's project to be a success.  Since this survey 
is confidential I will not say anything else about it here.   OpenICC GSoC 
was two for two this year.  Good job everyone.

Shaine and/or Cyrille how about more details on the HDR project?

Hal


On Monday 03 September 2007 14:59:47 Hal V. Engel wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007 04:59:14 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a gentle reminder that GSoC 2007 is now over and it would be
> > great to have an update on both of our projects whenever mentors feel
> > comfortable about it ;-)
> >
> > Alexandre
>
> Here is a preliminary update.
>
> 1. Three new profiling targets are now supported.  Bringing the total
> number of supported targets to seven.   LProf CVS now has support for the
> following profiling targets.
>
> IT8.7 - all three flavors.  This is not new.
>
> Hutch Color Target.  This support went in before the GSoC midterm.  It has
> been fairly well tested on Linux and Windows.  It should work on OS/X as
> well but is likely untested at this time.  Tracker #1294751
>
> GretagMacbeth ColorChecker 24 patch, SG and DC targets.  CC 24 support has
> been in place for a while and is not new.  The CC SG and DC support went in
> just before project completion and it is working on Windows.  Current CVS
> has issues on *nix systems with these targets related to file system
> security. The student has code that works on *nix systems and should have
> this in CVS in a few days.   I will be adding some additional things to the
> LProf build/install scripts in the next few days to fully support this on
> non-Windows platforms.   The CC DC and SG support is still alpha level
> code, is likely buggy and needs more testing.  If you have one of these
> targets and would like to do some testing please let me know. Tracker
> #1545504
>
> One of the issues encountered was that we were not able to obtain a sample
> reference file for the ColorChecker DC.  X-Rite was non-responsive when I
> asked for a sample reference file.  Support for the CC DC target was
> implemented with the assumption that the CC DC reference files were the
> same format as the CC SG reference files.  IE. That these were both Logo
> spectral data files.  If anyone here has access to a reference file for a
> ColorChecker DC target please get back to me.
>
> 2. A long existing bug that prevented the reference file selector from
> sometimes working correctly when there were non-reference files in the same
> directory has been fixed.  Tracker #1533542
>
> 3. Users no longer need to select a template when installing a reference
> file. The reference file installer will figure out what type of reference
> file it is installing and automatically select the correct template.  This
> was not part of the original proposal but the student discovered that the
> code he was putting in place to support the HCT targets made this possible
> and we decided to add this feature.  This greatly simplified the UI for the
> reference file installer and removes a possible source of user errors (IE.
> users can no longer select an incorrect template). Tracker #1745796
>
> 4. There is now much more checking done when a reference file is installed
> to make sure that users are installing a valid reference file and to
> prevent issues with users trying to install a non-reference file.  There is
> no tracker item for this.
>
> 5. The Windows build for LProf is working and is now in CVS.  This was not
> working prior to the start of the project.  Tracker #1732351
>
> 6. An existing bug where sometimes on Windows machines the reference file
> installer would return a file path that was missing a slash "/" has been
> fixed.  This is a significant bug in existing Windows releases and accounts
> for perhaps 30% of all support requests from Windows users.  Tracker
> #1734219
>
> Overall I would rate the project a success.  The student working on this is
> just starting his third year of undergraduate work.  So even though most of
> what he worked on would have been fairly simple for a more experienced
> programmer it was a stretch for him considering his education and
> experience level.  The student reports that he learned a lot from the
> project.  I had decided early on that this would be one of my main criteria
> for measuring the success of the project.  In addition, the completed items
> add significant new functionality to LProf and LProf is now one of only a
> handful of profilers that supports every profiling target available.
>
> Over all 11 of 15 items related to this in the tracker system were closed
> before the official end of the project.  The student as agreed to stick
> around until all 11 of the closed items are stable and to also finish 1 of
> the remaining open items.  Considering the experience level of the student
> working on this I feel that he accomplished about as much as I would have
> expected.
>
> Hal
>
>
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