The new features in Intel® IPP 5.2 cover the latest performance optimizations as well as new functionalities in each domain:

• Expanded optimizations in latest Intel® microarchitecture
  • Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors for Intel® 64 (Intel® EM64T) architecture
  • Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor optimizations in functions and code sample
  
  
• Expanded Mac OS* support
  • Added new samples for JPEG & Image Processing (See Mac OS samples)
  
  
• New support for Microsoft* Windows Vista* operating system

• Data Compression: Performance Improvement and Expanded Functionality (See Data Compression Sample)
  • Improvements on Compression and Decompression performance for Intel IPP based zlib primitives
  • Improvement on ease of integration from open source zlib library to Intel IPP based zlib functionality
  • Improvements on performance for Intel IPP based LZSS primitives
  • Primitives necessary for implementing the libbzip2 API set
  
  
• Expanded new features and optimizations for High Definition (HD) video applications
  • 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
  • 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:
  • Sample build documentation improvements
  • Added documents for Unified Media Class (UMC) model in audio-video-codecs Sample
  • Added documents for Unified Speech Class (USC) model in Speech Coding Sample
  
  
• New ippRR domain that contains Realistic Rendering functionality

• Audio Coding:
  • Floating point versions of PQMF filters for MP3 encoder and decoder
  • Functions for supporting of fixed point version of HEAAC decoder
  • Fixed point version of forward and inverse mode of MDCT designed especially for AAC and MP3 decoders
  • New version of VLC functions designed especially for platforms with low (or bad) data cache.
  
  
• Signal Processing: Several new customer requested functionalities including IIRGen

• Image Processing: 16u data support added

• JPEG processing: New functions for JPEG Extended Baseline mode (12-bit per sample) and RLE coding support, used in DICOM medical images (Check JPEG Samples)

• OpenCV performance optimizations

• Computer Vision:
  • New Fixed filters 8u8s and Separable column filters 16s8s
  • New True L2 distance transform and Fast Marching distance transform functions
  • Image inpainting (restoration)
  • Image segmentation
  • 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
  • SIFT features support for Gaussian filters and Peak search

Operating System:

Red Hat* Linux, Red Hat* Desktop Linux* 3, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Desktop 4, Red Hat* Desktop 3 Update 4, Windows* XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server* 2003 Standard x64 Edition, Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Longhorn Beta 1, Windows Vista* Beta 1, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 Update 3, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 Update 4, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 Update 5, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 Update 1, Mac OS*, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4.0, Windows* Storage Server, Redhat* Desktop 3 Update 5, Redhat* Desktop 3 Update 6, Redhat* Desktop 3 Update 7, Redhat* Desktop 4 Update 2, Redhat* Desktop 4 Update 3, Redhat* Desktop 4 Update 4, Windows Vista* 64, Windows Vista* Starter, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Home Basic, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Home Premium, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Business, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Enterprise, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Ultimate, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* RC2, Windows Vista* Home Basic, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Home Premium, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Business, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Enterprise, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Ultimate, 64-bit version, Windows Vista*, Windows Vista* 32, Windows Server* 2003 for Itanium-based Systems, Windows* XP 64-Bit Edition, Windows* XP Professional, Windows* XP Home Edition, Red Hat* Linux 6.2, Red Hat* Linux 6.2 SBE2, Red Hat* Linux 7.0, Red Hat* Linux 7.1, Red Hat* Linux 7.2, Red Hat* Linux 7.3, Red Hat* Linux 8.0, Red Hat* Linux Advanced Server 2.x, Windows* XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Server* 2003, Windows* XP Media Center Edition, Red Hat* Linux 9.0, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 3.0, Windows Server* 2003 Standard Edition, Red Hat* Linux Advanced Server 3.x, Windows* XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003

This applies to:

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) for Linux* Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) for Windows* Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives for Mac OS*