(openPR) - A new HALCON interface from MVTec, Munich, Germany, now enables to directly run filter operations on the microEnable III frame grabber from Silicon Software. Therefore, image processing applications with HALCON get dramatically accelerated.

This is a revolution in machine vision, says Christoph Zierl from MVTec. “VisualApplets Studio by Silicon Software enables our customers to directly execute computationally expensive image preprocessing on the frame grabber in an easy way. Thus, by the new HALCON interface, more computing power remains for the following high-level image processing with HALCON.”

By the image preprocessing on the frame grabber’s FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), significant computing time can be saved on the main processor. Based on a graphical user interface, the preprocessing can be flexibly configured such as a median filter operation for noise reduction. The user does not need any expertise of FPGA programming and nevertheless can select which algorithms are preprocessed by the FPGA and which remain for the subsequent application.

This proceeding especially is of interest, whenever huge amounts of data have to be processed. This concerns mainly high-speed applications or applications dealing with large images, e.g., images acquired from line scan cameras.

More information:
www.halcon.com/image-acquisition/

MVTec, LLC, is a subsidiary company of MVTec Software GmbH (Munich, Germany). MVTec is a leading manufacturer of standard software for machine vision. MVTec products are used in all demanding areas of imaging: semi-conductor industry, web inspection, quality control and inspection applications in general, medicine, and surveillance. MVTec has more than 30 established distributors, located throughout North- and South-America, Europe, and Southeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and more). For more information refer to www.mvtec.com

Dr. Lutz Kreutzer | MVTec Software GmbH, Neherstr.1, D-81675 München
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