HALCON 9.0 Machine Vision Training In Munich

Regarding the launch of the new version 9.0 of their machine vision software HALCON, MVTec Software GmbH has held an international distributor training in Munich, Germany, from January 19 to January 23 2009. HALCON 9.0 is available since January 26, 2009.

58 distribution engineers from 21 countries worldwide took part in this event. Topics were the focused training in the comprehensive innovations of HALCON 9.0 as there are considerable speedups especially for HALCON's automatic operator parallelization, unique new matching technologies for perspective distortions, further novelties for 3D vision, the processing of extremely large images of more than 32k x 32k pixels, and HALCON's enhanced usability.

MVTec cooperates with distribution companies that represent machine vision at the highest stage in their particular country. HALCON is steadily evolved by MVTec and employed by the industry in all challenging machine vision applications.

About HALCON
HALCON is the comprehensive standard software with an integrated development environment (IDE) for machine vision that is used worldwide. It leads to cost savings and improved time to market: HALCON's flexible architecture facilitates rapid development of machine vision, medical imaging, and image analysis applications. HALCON provides outstanding performance and a comprehensive support of multi-core platforms, MMX, and SSE2. It serves all industries by a library of more than 1400 operators for blob analysis, morphology, pattern matching, measuring, identification, and 3D vision, to name just a few. HALCON secures your investment by supporting a wide range of operating systems and providing interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and frame grabbers, including GenICam, GigE Vision, and IIDC 1394.

About MVTec
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, Asia, Australia, and Europe. In addition, MVTec, LLC works out of Boston, MA (USA), to better attend the North-American market since 2007.

SOURCE: MVTec