Software for Machine Vision

What is Machine Vision? Machine vision is deployed where camera images are not only acquired, but must also be analyzed in real time: for manufacturing, quality control, traffic control, medical technology, and surveillance. Machine vision is a multi-purpose technology , which currently shows the highest growth in the machinery industry. Software plays the central role. High-quality software can compensate the disturbances and weaknesses of an application. Who needs Machine Vision? Anybody who must mass-produce goods. Anybody who would like to automatize his production. Anybody who wants 100% quality for his entire production. Anybody who strives for improvements in medical image analysis. Anybody who monitors traffic. Anybody who must guarantee security. What is Software for Machine Vision? Software is the core of any machine vision application. Illumination highlights an object. Cameras transform images into electronic signals. Computers process the images. It is machine vision software, however, that analyzes and interprets this data. Machine vision software transforms image data into measurable and interpretable quantities, the basis for decisions. Here, speed, robustness, and accuracy are essential criteria. What are the Features of good Machine Vision Software? Functionality - to address sophisticated applications Robustness - against various distortions Accuracy - regarding real world coordinates High performance High image - and pixel resolution User-friendliness Flexibility by a huge number of methods hardware compatibility support of different systems and programming environments open interfaces support and training Adaptivity to changing customer requirements

Benefit from ActivVisionTools as the outstanding result of MVTec's expert knowledge in machine vision: a quick and efficient application creator with an easy-to-use graphical interface. ActivVisionTools can be integrated into any production process by directly supporting digital I/O boards, and incorporating interfaces to more than 50 frame grabbers and hundreds of industrial cameras. The tools are a set of ActiveX controls with programmable interface. ActivVisionTools' open software architecture is extensible and scalable to always fit your needs. Solve your machine vision task with tools such as ActivAlignment, ActivBarcode, ActivBlobFinder, ActivDataCode, ActivMeasure, ActivOCR, which are based on the established HALCON library.

HALCON is the comprehensive standard software library with an integrated development environment (IDE) for machine vision that is used worldwide. It leads to cost savings and improved time to market: HALCON's flexible architecture facilitates rapid development of machine vision, medical imaging, and image analysis applications. HALCON provides an extensive library of more than 1300 operators with outstanding performance for blob analysis, morphology, pattern matching, measuring, 3D object recognition, and binocular stereo vision, to name just a few. HALCON secures your investment by supporting a wide range of operating systems and providing interfaces to more than 50 frame grabbers and hundreds of industrial cameras (analog, Camera Link, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, and GigE).