Repost for benefit of those who no longer read the berkeley board.The optimized apps, notably those created by Crunch3r, Simon/KWSN and Alex Kan for Windows, Linux and MacOS/i386.
* The Intel® IPP 5.2 Beta is now available! Please visit the Intel IPP 5.2 Beta program web site for more information including a complete feature list, system requirements and registration information:
http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/beta.htmWhat’s New in the Intel IPP 5.2 Beta?
* Expanded Optimizations in latest Intel® microarchitecture
o Intel® Core™2 Duo processors for Intel® 64 (formerly Intel® EM64T) architecture
o Intel® Core™2 Quad processor optimizations in functions and code sample
* Expanded Mac OS* Support
o New optimizations for 64-bit Intel® Architecture
o XCode* integration document
o New samples for JPEG and Image Processing (see Mac OS samples)
* New support for Microsoft Windows* Vista operating system.
* Data Compression: Performance improvements and expanded functionality (See Data Compression sample)
o Improvements on Compression and Decompression performance for Intel IPP based zlib primitives
o Improvement on ease of integration from open source zlib library to Intel IPP based zlib functionality
o Improvements on performance for Intel IPP based LZSS primitives
* Expanded new features and optimizations for High Definition (HD) video applications
o Added SMPTE 421M video codec standard (VC-1) support
+ VC-1 Simple/Main/Advanced Profiles video decoder support functions
+ VC-1 full featured decoder (Simple/Main/Advanced Profiles) component in Media Processing Sample
o Expanded H.264 support and Optimizations
+ H.264 High Profiles decoder support (High 4:2:0, High 4:2:2 and High 10) in H.264 decode component
+ H.264 High Profile encoding support in 2 new added functions
+ H.264 encoding functions optimizations
* Added New DV codecs: DV50\100 decoders primitives and DV25\50 encoders primitives
* Documentation Improvements:
o Sample build documentation improvements
o Added documents for Unified Media Class (UMC) model in Media Processing Sample
o Added documents for Unified Speech Class (USC) model in Speech Coding Sample
* New ippRR domain that contains Realistic Rendering functionality.
* Audio Coding:
o Floating point versions of PQMF filters for MP3 encoder and decoder.
o Functions for supporting of fixed point version of HEAAC decoder.
o Fixed point version of forward and inverse mode of MDCT designed especially for AAC and MP3 decoders.
o New version of VLC functions designed especially for platforms with low (or bad) data cache.
* Signal Processing: Several new customer requested functionality including IIRGen
* Image Processing: 16u data support added for more then 70% of ippIP functionality
* JPEG processing: New functions for JPEG Extended Baseline mode (12-bit per sample) and RLE coding support, used in DICOM medical images
* OpenCV performance optimizations
* Computer Vision:
o New Fixed filters 8u8s and Separable column filters 16s8s
o New True L2 distance transform and Fast Marching distance transform functions
o Image inpainting (restoration)
o Image segmentation
o Transform color gradient to gray-scale
+ Image segmentation by image gradient
+ Image segmentation by watershed
+ Image segment handling (border draw and labeling)
+ Background/foreground segmentation by Gaussians and by histograms
o SIFT features support for Gaussian filters and Peak search
