Unique Technique
From Basics to High Tech
HALCON offers the full set of standard machine vision technologies.
Beyond that, HALCON offers many unique features.
HALCON offers the largest variety of robust matching techniques
for any task:
- Gray-value-based matching (incl. NCC)
- Shape-based matching
- Component-based matching
- Descriptor-based matching
- Perspective, deformable matching
- 3D matching
HALCON enters the next dimension with revolutionary
methods for 3D vision:
- 3D calibration
- Hand-eye-calibration
- 3D alignment
- 3D matching
- Circle pose
- Rectangle pose
- 3D reconstruction
- Binocular stereo
- Depth from focus
- Sheet of light
HALCON contains many more unique techniques:
- Arbitrarily shaped Regions of Interest (ROIs) for significant flexibility and speed
- Extremely fast morphology and a wide set of subpixel-accurate methods
- Gray-value calibration for high accuracy in subpixel-measurement
- Reading of 1D and 2D bar and data codes with maximum robustness to occlusions and print quality
- Processing of extremely large images (more than 32k x 32k) without a limit
Complete Hardware Independence
HALCON supports a multitude of different operating systems and
processors:| Operating System | Processor | Compiler |
|---|---|---|
|
Windows Windows x64 |
Pentium or compatible (with and without SSE2) Intel EM64T or AMD64 |
Visual Studio Visual Studio |
|
Linux Linux x86_64 |
Pentium or compatible (with and without SSE2) Intel EM64T or AMD64 |
gcc gcc |
| Solaris | SPARC | Sun Studio |
HALCON is optimized to profit from the possibilities of the hardware:
HALCON utilizes SIMD, multi-core CPUs, multiprocessor computers, and supports FPGA technology.
HALCON supports a multitude of different image acquisition devices:
- Universal acquisition interface for all GigE Vision compliant cameras
from Basler, Baumer, DALSA, e2v, FLIR, GEViCAM, Imperx, JAI, Leutron,
MATRIX VISION, Mikrotron, NET, Pleora, Prosilica, SVS-Vistek,
Toshiba Teli, and others.
- Universal acquisition interface for all IIDC 1394 (FireWire) compliant
cameras from Allied Vision, Basler, Baumer, NET, PixeLINK, Point Grey,
Prosilica, Sony, The Imaging Source, Toshiba Teli, and others.
- Universal acquisition interface for all capture devices with
DirectShow or TWAIN driver.
- Specific acquisition interfaces for cameras and frame grabber boards from ABS, Basler, Baumer, BitFlow, CyberOptics, Daheng, DALSA, Eltec, Euresys, IDS, Integral, Leutron, LinX, Lumenera, MATRIX VISION, Matrox, Mikrotron, Opteon, PixeLINK, Sick IVP, Silicon Software, Sony, Tattile, and VRmagic.
For latest information see the HALCON Image Acquisition pages.
