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
- 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
- Circle pose
- Rectangle pose
- 3D reconstruction
- Multi-view stereo
- Depth from focus
- Sheet of light
- Fitting of 3D primitives
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
- 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 |
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-4.x gcc-4.x |
| 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. Moreover, HALCON provides an efficient automatic GPU acceleration based on the OpenCL standard.
HALCON supports a multitude of different image acquisition devices:
- Universal acquisition interface for all GigE Vision compliant cameras
from Allied Vision, Basler, Baumer, DALSA, e2v, Hitachi, Imperx, JAI,
Kappa, Leutron Vision, MATRIX VISION, Mikrotron, NET, Pleora, Sony,
SVS-VISTEK, Tattile, Toshiba Teli, and others.
- Universal acquisition interface for all GenICam GenTL compliant
cameras from IDS, Leutron Vision, MATRIX VISION, 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 or TWAIN driver.
- Specific acquisition interface for cameras und frame grabber boards from ABS, ADLINK, Andor, Basler, BitFlow, Crevis, Daheng, DALSA, ELTEC, Euresys, IDS, Leuze, LinX, Lumenera, MATRIX VISION, Matrox, Mikrotron, Opteon, PixeLINK, Sentech, SICK, Silicon Software, Sony, SVS-VISTEK, and VRmagic.
For latest information see the HALCON Image Acquisition pages.
