NavVis IVION Processing Changelog

  • Updated on Mar 27, 2025
  • Published on Jan 29, 2024
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Introduction

What's new, improved, and fixed in NavVis IVION Processing.

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Our release format is major.minor.patch, which means:

  • A major version increase will highlight changes that are not backwards-compatible.

  • Minor version updates will introduce new features.

  • Patch versions will be reserved for bug fixes and hotfixes.

Version 3.2.0

Release Date: March 13th, 2025

Improved

  • The runtime performance of point cloud filtering has been improved, especially for larger datasets.

  • The robustness of NavVis MLX SLAM has been improved.

Version 11.5.0

Release Date: February 24th, 2025

New

  • The Activity Log is a downloadable export file that tracks unit consumption of successful dataset processings. Find it on the ‘Processed Data’ page.

Note: It may take a few hours for the Activity Log to update with the most recent datasets.

Version 3.1.0

Release Date: February 20th, 2025

Improved

  • The robustness of NavVis MLX SLAM has been improved.

Version 2.24.5

Release Date: January 22nd, 2025

Improved

  • The robustness of NavVis MLX SLAM re-localization has been improved.

  • Consistent white-balance for camera images per panorama locations, especially in outdoor environments and 270 panorama locations.

Fixed

  • An issue has been fixed that caused areas in the colored point clouds to appear white due to overexposure.

Version 11.4.4

Release Date: January 21st, 2025

NavVis IVION Processing no longer supports NavVis M6 datasets for data upload and processing.

Improved

  • Enhanced dataset upload validation with the new "Validating upload" status.

  • Disabled datasets with 'Upload incomplete' status for processing task creation.

  • Improved status handling for processing tasks.

  • Improved the robustness of the dataset upload process against network failures with error handling and pre-upload checks for mandatory files.

  • Improved performance when listing datasets and bundles in the dataset management page.

Version 2.24.4.2

Release Date: January 14th, 2025

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where in rare cases the dataset.json files had empty or 0 values after web-processing with the NVR panorama format.

Version 2.24.4

Release Date: December 11th, 2024

Improved

  • Robustness of NavVis MLX SLAM has been improved.

Version 2.24.3

Release Date: November 19th, 2024

Improved

  • Robustness of NavVis MLX SLAM has been improved.

  • NavVis MLX SLAM is now deterministic and provides repeatable results when reprocessing data.

  • Stitching artifacts for NavVis MLX panoramas have been reduced.

Version 2.24.2

Release Date: November 13th, 2024

Improved

  • The point cloud filtering was improved for NavVis VLX 3, implementing the same method used in NavVis MLX.

  • The appearance of panoramas has been improved by reducing the number of small white spots in areas where the panorama was completed with point cloud information

Fixed

  • The accuracy of NavVis MLX SLAM has been improved in certain conditions.

  • Reduced drift in NavVis MLX datasets in certain environments.

  • Reduced NavVis MLX dataset processing failures after the SLAM was lost.

Version 2.24.1

Release Date: October 29th, 2024

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue that led to white patches during point cloud colorization.

Version 11.3.6

Release Date: October 28th, 2024

New

  • The license plate blurring feature automatically detects and blurs license plates in both point clouds and panoramas during post-processing.

Improved

  • Stability improvements for NavVis MLX dataset uploads.

Version 2.24.0

Release Date: October 24th, 2024

Improved

  • Improved SLAM drift and robustness in outdoor environments.

Version 2.23.1

Release Date: October 8th, 2024

Improved

  • NavVis MLX: The visual fidelity of panorama completion for outdoor areas was improved by increasing the maximum colorization distance for the “outdoors” preset.

Fixed

  • NavVis MLX: Fixed various crashes in the processing of NavVis MLX datasets and integrated numerous other stability improvements.

Version 11.3.4

Release Date: September 30th, 2024

Improved

  • Datasets that have been uploaded and processed are now automatically sorted by most recent uploads and processing.

Fixed

  • NavVis IVION Processing notification emails now work as expected.

Version 2.23.0

Release Date: September 18th, 2024

New

  • NavVis IVION Processing now fully supports NavVis MLX.

Fixed

  • Processing of datasets with a very large number of panoramic images now works as expected.

Version 11.3.3

Release Date: September 11th, 2024

Improved

  • Enhanced performance in terms of quicker dataset loading, when uploading raw datasets, and task creation.

Version 11.3.2

Release Date: September 2nd, 2024

Improved

  • The quality report has been reformatted and report features enhanced for consistency.

Version 11.2.6

Release Date: July 24th, 2024

Fixed

  • Upload, Processing tasks, and Processed data pages now accurately display dataset statuses.

  • Processed datasets now consistently appear in the processed data list.

Version 11.2.1

Release Date: May 29th, 2024

Fixed

  • All processed datasets' information is now displayed as expected.

Version 11.2.0

Release Date: May 28th, 2024

New

  • The Quality Report feature enables NavVis IVION Processing users to generate a detailed PDF report on post-processing outcomes, enhancing transparency and facilitating documentation.

Note: The quality report feature will be available for processed datasets starting in May 2024.

Improved

  • Performance for storage counting has been enhanced, resulting in more precise and accurate consumption of cloud storage.

Fixed

  • NavVis IVION Processing now supports more than 1000 datasets on both upload and processed pages, with added pagination for easier navigation.

Version 2.22.13

Release Date: May 27th, 2024

Fixed

  • It is now possible to process a large dataset with more than 1200 capture locations.

  • Blurring small regions in images now works as expected.

  • Removed unreliable and error-prone options to run partial processings.

Version 11.1.0

Release Date: February 29th, 2024

  • Timestamp data now appears in the “Processed At” field within the “Processed Data” page and shows when the datasets were processed.

Version 2.22.9

Release Date: January 31st, 2024

Fixed

  • The processing pipeline now handles out-of-disk space errors during processing correctly.

Version 11.0.5

Release Date: January 29th, 2024 

Improved

  • The option to download logs has been replaced with download task details, which provides a summary of the task's configuration settings.

  • It is now possible to view device tags for uploaded datasets, enhancing dataset processing by providing clear device context.

Version 11.0.0

Release Date: November 15th, 2023

  • Processing settings provide input recommendations of up to five of the most recent email addresses entered.

Version 10.9.6

Release Date: October 13th, 2023

Fixed

  • Point clouds can be downloaded in .e57 and .ply formats when control points are used in the dataset.

Version 10.9.5

Release Date: October 12th, 2023

  • The Download modal for processed datasets now provides clear options for downloading artifacts, including improved messaging for missing files and clarifying output categories.

Version 2.22.3

Release Date: September 21st, 2023

Fixed

  • The archive of downloaded panoramic images (pano.zip) is no longer generated when no panoramic images are available.

Version 10.9.2

Release date: August 17th, 2023

  • The Processing Balance modal for post-processing features has been expanded. It now breaks down unit consumption for data captured with a NavVis M6, a NavVis VLX, a NavVis VLX 2, or a NavVis VLX 3, and for Detection and Blurring.

Version 10.9.1

Release Date: August 10th, 2023

Fixed

  • Smaller UI issues in NavVis IVION Processing and in Dataset Management.

Version 10.9.0

Release Date: August 1st, 2023

  • Improved quality map preview and enhanced zooming overview for all datasets that have been uploaded and processed.

Version 2.18.0

Release Date: October 12th, 2022

New

  • Positions and orientations ("poses") of panoramas are now available for download from the Cloud Processing Add-on for NavVis IVION as .CSV file in the pano.zip archive. If the dataset was processed with control points, the positions are in the same coordinate system as the point cloud.

Version 2.12.0

Release Date: August 16th, 2021

New

  • We now support the processing of control points with large coordinates and geo-referencing of control points with EPSG codes.

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