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HALCON

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:
  • Correlation-based matching (NCC)
  • Shape-based matching
  • Component-based matching
  • Descriptor-based matching
  • Perspective deformable matching
  • Local deformable matching
  • Shape-based 3D matching
  • Surface-based 3D matching
HALCON enters the next dimension with revolutionary methods for 3D vision:
  • Multi-view 3D calibration
  • Hand-eye-calibration
  • 3D alignment
  • 3D matching
  • 3D surface comparison
  • Circle pose
  • Rectangle pose
  • 3D reconstruction
  • Multi-view stereo
  • Depth from focus
  • Sheet of light
  • 3D object processing
  • 3D primitives fitting


HALCON contains many more unique techniques:
  • Sample-based identification capable to differentiate a large number of objects
  • Arbitrarily shaped regions of interest (ROIs) for significant flexibility and speed
  • Extremely fast morphology and a wide set of subpixel-accurate methods
  • Reading of bar codes and data codes with maximum robustness to occlusions and print quality
  • Processing of extremely large images (more than 32k x 32k) without a limit
  • Automatic operator parallelization (AOP)

Complete Hardware Independence

HALCON supports many different operating systems and processors:

Operating System Processor Compiler
Windows
Windows x64
Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon 64 or higher
Intel 64 or AMD64
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Linux
Linux x86_64
Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon 64 or higher
Intel 64 or AMD64
gcc-4.x
gcc-4.x
Mac OS X 10.7 / 10.8 Intel 64 Xcode

HALCON is optimized to profit from the possibilities of the hardware:
HALCON utilizes SIMD, multi-core CPUs, multiprocessor computers, and supports FPGA technology. Moreover, HALCON provides an efficient automatic GPU acceleration based on the OpenCL standard.

HALCON supports a multitude of different image acquisition devices:




  • Universal acquisition interfaces for all GigE Vision compliant cameras from Allied Vision, Automation Technology, Basler, Baumer, e2v, Hitachi, Imperx, JAI, Kappa, Leutron Vision, MATRIX VISION, Mikrotron, NET, Photonfocus, Pleora, Point Grey, Smartek, Sony, SVS-VISTEK, Tattile, Teledyne DALSA, Toshiba Teli, Vieworks, and others.

  • Universal acquisition interfaces for all GenICam GenTL compliant boards or cameras from Active Silicon, Leutron Vision, LMI, MATRIX VISION, VRmagic, XIMEA, and others.

  • Universal acquisition interface for all IIDC 1394 (FireWire) compliant cameras from Allied Vision, Basler, Baumer, Hitachi, Kappa, NET, PixeLINK, Point Grey, Sony, The Imaging Source, Toshiba Teli, and others.

  • Universal acquisition interface for all capture devices with DirectShow, TWAIN or Video4Linux driver.

  • Specific acquisition interface for cameras und frame grabber boards from ABS, ADLINK, Andor, Basler, BitFlow, Crevis, Daheng, ELTEC, Euresys, IDS, Leuze, LinX, Lumenera, MATRIX VISION, Matrox, MESA Imaging, Mikrotron, Opteon, PixeLINK, Sentech, SICK, Silicon Software, Sony, Teledyne DALSA, and VRmagic.

For latest information see the HALCON Image Acquisition pages.

Image Acquisition Partner Program - in order to provide the best possible integration of hardware and software for the customer, MVTec cultivates close partnerships to a large number of suppliers of image acquisition devices.


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