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MVTec Software GmbH is a leading international manufacturer of software for machine vision. MVTec products are used in a wide range of industries, such as semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, battery production, agriculture and food, as well as logistics. They enable applications like surface inspection, optical quality control, robot guidance, identification, measurement, classification, and more. Software by MVTec facilitates new automation solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things by providing modern technologies like 3D vision, deep learning, and embedded vision. With its headquarters in Munich (Germany), locations in Boston, MA (USA), Lyon (France), Utrecht (Netherlands), Barcelona (Spain), Kunshan near Shanghai (China), Zhubei (Taiwan), and Bundang (Korea), as well as an established network of international sales partners, MVTec is represented in more than 35 countries worldwide.
    
Products: MVTec is the developer and vendor of the standard machine vision software products HALCON and MERLIC as well as the Deep Learning Tool. 

MVTec HALCON is optimized for the needs of OEMs and system integrators and allows engineers to set up their own solutions for a specific machine vision task.

MVTec MERLIC is a powerful no-code machine vision software that enables users to quickly build complete solutions intuitively and without programming.

The MVTec Deep Learning Tool is a comprehensive software tool for preparing image data and supporting data-driven workflows for the deployment of deep-learning-based machine vision applications.

Solutions: Furthermore, MVTec builds customized software solutions for machine vision – from consultancy, studies, and prototypes up to integrated products. Software solutions can be based on standard PC or embedded hardware (e.g., Arm®-based systems). Moreover, MVTec’s team has an excellent background in processing images of different kinds, including 3D, infrared, hyperspectral, and X-ray images.

Mission: To offer customers the greatest possible benefit, MVTec’s innovative work is driven by a commitment to be the number one supplier for all kinds of machine vision software technologies. MVTec focusses on in-house research and hence takes a leading role in the challenging process of understanding how machines can learn to see.

History: MVTec was founded in November 1996 as a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich and the Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems (FORWISS) and has been a family business ever since.

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MVTec HALCON is the comprehensive standard software for machine vision with an integrated development environment (HDevelop) that is used worldwide.

It enables cost savings and improved time to market. HALCON’s flexible architecture facilitates rapid development of any kind of machine vision application.

MVTec HALCON provides outstanding performance and a comprehensive support of multi-core platforms, special instruction sets like AVX2 and NEON, as well as GPU acceleration. It serves all industries, with a library used in hundreds of thousands of installations in all areas of imaging like blob analysis, morphology, matching, measuring, and identification. The software provides the latest state-of-the-art machine vision technologies, such as comprehensive 3D vision and deep learning algorithms.

The software secures your investment by supporting a wide range of operating systems and providing interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and frame grabbers, in particular by supporting standards like GenICam, GigE Vision, and USB3 Vision. By default, MVTec HALCON runs on Arm^®-based embedded vision platforms. It can also be ported to various target platforms. Thus, the software is ideally suited for the use within embedded and customized systems.

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MVTec MERLIC is an easy-to-use no-code software for industrial image processing. It enables users to create machine vision applications intuitively and without any programming knowledge.

MERLIC is based on MVTec's comprehensive machine vision expertise and combines reliability and speed with exceptional ease of use. Its image-centric user interface and intuitive operating concept ensure an efficient workflow, significantly reducing the time required to create and deploy machine vision applications.

Thanks to MERLIC’s graphical user interface and powerful tools, users can create complete machine vision applications easily and intuitively. With its "all-in-one" approach, the no-code software covers the entire process: from image acquisition, image processing, integrated communication interfaces, to visualization of the results. MERLIC supports all common industry standards and a wide range of hardware.

The software includes state-of-the-art deep learning functions as well as all essential rule-based image processing methods. With this comprehensive tool library, a great variety of image processing tasks can be solved. These include classification, measuring, counting, checking, reading of text and numbers, bar code and data code reading, position determination, and 3D vision based on height images.

MVTec MERLIC is available for Windows- and Linux-based PC systems as well as for Arm^®-based embedded platforms.

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The MVTec Deep Learning Tool is a comprehensive software tool for preparing image data and supporting data-driven workflows for the deployment of deep-learning-based machine vision applications. It enables easy dataset management as well as user-friendly and AI-assisted labeling, so that the images can be used for training neural networks. Additionally, the Deep Learning Tool allows for direct evaluation of these trained networks. Once the network is trained, customers can deploy it directly in the respective runtime environment of MVTec HALCON or MVTec MERLIC, solving machine vision tasks such as classification, object recognition, Deep OCR, Global Context Anomaly Detection, or various forms of segmentation.

The Deep Learning Tool integrates seamlessly with MVTec's products HALCON and MERLIC. If needed, image data can also be pre-processed with these software products before further processing in the Deep Learning Tool. Users always retain full control over their data.

With its intuitive user interface, the Deep Learning Tool paves the way to deploying deep learning applications, saving time and costs during the otherwise tedious preparation of image data. Thus, it also ensures faster market availability.

More information:
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