MVTec HALCON

Powerful features & tools in HALCON

MVTec HALCON combines powerful machine vision functionality with flexible development and deployment tools. Learn more about the key features that help build reliable vision applications, discover what is new in recent releases, and find the right tools for development, integration, and deployment across platforms.

Core features of HALCON

Solving industrial machine vision tasks reliably.

HALCON provides the functionality needed for robust inspection, measurement, identification, and recognition in industrial environments. It combines proven image processing methods with advanced technologies such as deep learning and 3D vision, building a stable foundation for high-performing vision systems.
 

New features & advancements

Keeping pace with evolving requirements.

HALCON is continuously extended to address new technical requirements, hardware trends, and application scenarios. This section summarizes the enhancements introduced with new releases, helping users assess what has changed and where new capabilities can improve existing solutions.
 

Development tools & programming

From idea to productive system.

HALCON supports efficient development workflows with dedicated tools for creating, testing, debugging, and integrating machine vision logic. The focus is on practical work: interactive development, smooth integration into applications, and maintainable execution in productive systems.

Platforms, compatibility & embedded vision

Deploying HALCON where you need it.

HALCON is designed for broad compatibility across operating systems, processors, and image acquisition hardware. It supports deployment on standard PCs as well as embedded and Arm-based platforms, enabling consistent machine vision solutions across diverse system architectures.

Platforms, compatibility & embedded vision
HALCON for embedded vision

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Application examples

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Supermarket Inventory Automation
In this tutorial, we show how we use MVTec HALCON and deep learning to let a robot check supermarket shelves after hours and classify each slot as either full or empty.
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Leather inspection and classification with HALCON
Another successful implementation of HALCON’s deep learning technologies in the classification of leather types and quality inspection with two real-world applications.
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Anomaly Detection in Metal Parts
MVTec’s HALCON developed a combination of rule-based and deep-learning-based approaches for faster, easier and more precise defect detection in the metalworking industry.
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Anomaly Detection Datasets
MVTec’s research department has taken anomaly detection to the next level with a comprehensive dataset and created 30 different anomaly detection scenarios
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Quality Control of Baked Goods
Using MVTec’s HALCON deep learning, the quality control system for baked goods is able to analyze up to 140 pieces per minute 24 hours a day!
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2D deep learning for shelf slot identification
Using 2D Deep Learning technologies, MVTec’s HALCON is able to identify where the goods will be stored and if there is enough storage space on shelves.
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Anomaly detection with deep learning for safe welding
To inspect the welding process of its modular BLS 500 laser system and fully automate it, Manz, a high-tech machine manufacturer, relies on machine vision using the standard software MVTec HALCON.
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Inspection of drilled holes on furniture parts
In collaboration with MVTec's distributor, The Imaging Source, industrial automation solutions provider, Teomsi Electric Company developed an inspection system in cooperation with Ecolor for their furniture factory.
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Bin picking application with MVTec HALCON boosts productivity
For a customer in the field of veterinary medicine, Pose Automation GmbH, a Certified Integration Partner of MVTec, developed a tailor-made robotic cell in which catheters are sorted into a packaging machine. The robust and flexible machine vision so…
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Automated defect-inspection of train rooftops
Automated defect inspection of train rooftops: With MVTec HALCON, high-speed train inspections shrink from 1.5 hours to just 10 minutes—all while trains are moving!
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Supervise your machines with HALCON generic sockets
Going on vacation but need to supervise the machines? See how Tom uses HALCON generic sockets to relax and enjoy his vacation without worrying about work.
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Smart pepper harvesting by SWEEPER
The implementation of robotics and sensing technologies as an alternative solution makes crop production more efficient and sustainable.
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Fast and performant inspection of rice grains with HALCON Embedded
Japanese company Kett Electric Laboratory develops and sells an automated inspection system for rice grains, achieving human-level or even superior quality control with MVTec HALCON.
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Automatic Gas Cylinder Retest Line
The Swiss Safety Center AG, part of a center of excellence in technical safety and risk management, offers a full portfolio for industry, retail, and commerce.
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How many persons are within a building?
You want to count the number of people that are entering and leaving a building? Watch this MVBite and learn all about it.
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Farming machinery – efficient plant protection with machine vision
We show how farming machinery uses MVTec machine vision and multispectral image acquisition to detect weeds in real time and spray herbicide only where needed.
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Automated monitoring and harvesting with MVTec
The automation of processes in greenhouses using machine vision technologies makes it possible to better meet the increasing demand and requirements for quality, hygiene, and food safety.
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Efficient shrimp sorting with MVTec HALCON
Real-time shrimp sorting with HALCON boosts yield and returns live by-catch to the sea—fast, accurate, sustainable.
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Conveyor belt application using MVTec HALCON
Develop in HDevelop, run on D3: set ROI, learn shapes, measure diameters, save scripts. Registered users can download HALCON.
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Next-Generation Industrial Robot NEXTAGE
This video shows how the collaborative robot NEXTAGE uses MVTec HALCON for precise image processing, enabling flexible automation in modern production.
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Segmenting and analyzing candies and seeds with HALCON
This demo by LinX shows how fast and robust MVTec HALCON segments and analyzes candies and seeds using its powerful blob analysis.
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Identification of produce without any bar or data code (SBI)
HALCON’s Sample-based Identification (SBI) recognizes thousands of objects by color or texture: fast, robust, and easy to use, even without bar codes or data codes.
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pick and place application examples
Three application examples for pick & place with HALCON 3D Vision
With HALCON 3D vision, robots pick disordered automotive parts precisely using sheet-of-light scanning and smart tool selection.
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VRMagic D3 intelligent camera with HALCON embedded
HALCON Embedded on the D3 smart camera: Detect, measure, and analyze in real time – powerful machine vision right on the device.
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Leuze LPS36 & MVTec HALCON 3D software on bin picking robot
Affordable 3D imaging made simple: HALCON and Leuze’s LPS36 enable precise, real-time vision for pick-and-place robots.
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Pick and place with HALCON's surface-based 3D matching
Robust bin picking of heavy parts with sheet-of-light and HALCON 3D; 2D re-localization and dual-part pickup feed welding.
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