ACAP version 4.1 – January 13, 2022

Overview

It contains:

• ACAP Computer Vision SDK 1.1
• ACAP Native SDK 1.1
• Docker ACAP 1.1.1
• Docker Compose ACAP 1.1.1

Code examples for both SDKs:

• Code examples ACAP Computer Vision SDK v1.1
• Code examples ACAP Native SDK v1.1

New features

• Support for architecture-independent applications (shell scripts or client-side web applications)
• Support for 64 bit artpec-8 devices
• For manifest ACAP applications, from manifest schema version 1.3, the architecture is added to manifest.json at the packaging step. If a script application is not architecture dependent, applications can add "architecture" : "all" in manifest.json, see shell-script-example.

New examples

Custom library example - This example explains how to build a user defined custom library from source files and bundle it for use in an ACAP application.

ACAP Computer Vision SDK

Supported architectures:

• 32 and 64 bit, see image on Docker Hub

Compatibility

New supported products: ¹

• AXIS M4308-PLE Panoramic Camera, Product page
• AXIS Q1656 Box Cameras
  • AXIS Q1656 Box Camera, Product page
  • AXIS Q1656-LE Box Camera, Product page
• AXIS Q1715 Block Camera, Product page

See also compatibility information for the complete list of supported products and more product information.

Firmware

• Minimum AXIS OS version: 10.9

See Firmware releases for all supported products.

Limitations

• All examples using the larod-inference-server container image currently require the following volume mount to be added to the compose file: /usr/acap-root/lib:/host/lib e.g.

    volumes:
      - acap_dl-models:/models
      - /run/dbus/system_bus_socket:/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
      - /usr/acap-root/lib:/host/lib

ACAP Native SDK

Supported architectures:

• 32 and 64 bit, see image on Docker Hub

Compatibility

Supported products:

• All products with chipsets: ARTPEC-6, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-8, S5 and S5L.

See also compatibility information.

Firmware

• Minimum AXIS OS version: 10.9

See Firmware releases for all supported products.

APIs supported in this release

• Video capture API
• Machine learning API
• Cairo
• Event API
• License Key API
• Overlay API (armv7hf only)
• OpenCL (armv7hf only)

Limitations

The following APIs are not included for aarch64 but are expected for next release.

• Overlay API
• OpenCL

Corrections in release notes

1. The structure of the ACAP Computer Vision SDK compatible products has been updated and are now grouped in product families. As a result, some models have been added. Also, we are only including the new products in the release notes, you can still find the complete list in compatibility information. ↩