1.4.0

🎉 We are excited to announce the release of our new 1.4.0 version! 🎉

• MPS CLI (ARK|Project Aria Research partners)
  • New (and recommended) workflow for requesting Machine Perception services.
  • MPS Multi-SLAM can only be requested by the MPS CLI.
• MPS Multi-SLAM (ARK|Project Aria Research partners)
  • Compute SLAM MPS outputs in a shared coordinate frame for multiple VRS files

Here is the complete changelog:

[API]

• DataProvider - {Feature} - Make DeliverQueue start and end timestamp logic more robust
• Calibration - {Feature} calibration - expose imu rectification matrix and bias vector
• Viewer MPS - {Visualizer} Python - viewer_mps - Add mps_folder option

[MPS CLI]

• aria_mps - Addition of a Python CLI for
  • Project Aria Research partners to manage their Machine Perception Services requests (run and monitor upload, run and results retrieval). Improvements on the Desktop app include:
    • Auto run health checks prior to upload
    • Recordings will not be uploaded if they are not valid for any of the MPS services requested
    • Resumable uploads
    • Concurrent processing
    • Automatically downloads outputs once processing is complete
    • Recordings are processed once
    • Uploaded data is stored for 24 hours
      • Additional MPS can be requested without needing to upload again
      • Data can be reprocessed without needing to upload again
    • CLI can be integrated into automated workflows
• Request Multi-Recording outputs
  • Compute SLAM MPS outputs in a shared coordinate frame for multiple VRS files
• Projectaria_tools must be installed using pip to access the CLI

[Documentation]

• aria_mps CLI documentation
• MPS Data Formats documentation refactored to align with MPS CLI output structure
  Minor improvements to other documentation