v0.8.0

This release only supports Chainer v3 and not Chainer v2.
For those users using Chainer v2, please update the version of Chainer or use ChainerCV v0.7.

API Changes

• The default value of option data_dir for CityscapesDataset has changed from None to 'auto'. #448

New Features

• Add ProgressHook #473
• Add CityscapesTestImageDataset #440

New Tutorial

• Add a tutorial on Object Detection #434

Enhancements and Bug Fixes

• Test Chainer 3.2.0 on Travis #499
• Use ProgressHook in segnet #498
• Improve reference of tutorial #479
• Fix doc of download to refer to chainer.dataset.download properly #478
• Improve appearence of y_offset and x_offset in doc #475
• Use 'data' as an attribute for BlobProto for SSD #491
• Retruns -> Returns #483
• Fix flip_keypoint to accept keypoints on the edge #481
• Fix grammatical mistakes in doc #477
• Fix refs to NMS in SSD doc #476
• Fix doc of crop_bbox #474
• Fix variable names of eval_imagenet #472
• Fix datasets docs #464
• fix bbox format in flip_bbox #458 (Thank you @knorth55)
• Add testing.run_module to eval_detection_voc #455
• Fix doc of bbox2loc and loc2bbox #439
• Add attr.disk #493
• Use math notations for bounding box coordinates #485
• Improve reference links #482
• Fix documentation of SegNet #471
• Improve the top page of the documentation #470
• Fix letter case in README #469
• Improve code examples of detection.rst #467
• Fix datasets docs #466
• Simplify README #465
• fix setting parameters of random_distort #461 (thank you @peisuke)
• avoid zero division in bbox2loc #459 (thank you @knorth55)
• Fix doc of Conv2DBNActiv #447
• Chainer 3.0.0 #445