What is Machine Vision? Machine vision is deployed where camera images are not only acquired, but must also be analyzed in real time: for manufacturing, quality control, traffic control, medical technology, and surveillance. Machine vision is a multi-purpose technology , which currently shows the highest growth in the machinery industry. Software plays the central role. High-quality software can compensate the disturbances and weaknesses of an application. Who needs Machine Vision? Anybody who must mass-produce goods. Anybody who would like to automatize his production. Anybody who wants 100% quality for his entire production. Anybody who strives for improvements in medical image analysis. Anybody who monitors traffic. Anybody who must guarantee security. What is Software for Machine Vision? Software is the core of any machine vision application. Illumination highlights an object. Cameras transform images into electronic signals. Computers process the images. It is machine vision software, however, that analyzes and interprets this data. Machine vision software transforms image data into measurable and interpretable quantities, the basis for decisions. Here, speed, robustness, and accuracy are essential criteria. What are the Features of good Machine Vision Software? Functionality - to address sophisticated applications Robustness - against various distortions Accuracy - regarding real world coordinates High performance High image - and pixel resolution User-friendliness Flexibility by a huge number of methods hardware compatibility support of different systems and programming environments open interfaces support and training Adaptivity to changing customer requirements

Benefit from ActivVisionTools as the outstanding result of MVTec's expert knowledge in machine vision: a quick and efficient application creator with an easy-to-use graphical interface. ActivVisionTools can be integrated into any production process by directly supporting digital I/O boards, and incorporating interfaces to more than 50 frame grabbers and hundreds of industrial cameras. The tools are a set of ActiveX controls with programmable interface. ActivVisionTools' open software architecture is extensible and scalable to always fit your needs. Solve your machine vision task with tools such as ActivAlignment, ActivBarcode, ActivBlobFinder, ActivDataCode, ActivMeasure, ActivOCR, which are based on the established HALCON library.

MVTec's Expertise MVTec Software GmbH, based in Munich, Germany, employs highly qualified experts for machine vision with up to 20 years experience in this technology. Since the early days of machine vision, MVTec engineers were groundbreaking inventors. In the course of time, their developments received numerous international scientific awards. MVTec started as a spin-off from Technische Universität München in 1996. Today there is still a close collaboration to scientific research and development. MVTec invests a large part of its profits into its own R & D activities. New software releases are brought into the market regularly. MVTec's machine vision software is globally distributed and applied by industry and scientific research worldwide. MVTec cooperates directly with customers by implementing customized solutions for sophisticated machine vision problems. MVTec's worldwide customer support via distributors helps users to optimize their own machine vision application.

Further Information:

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• System Requirements
• Supported Frame Grabbers and Cameras
• Supported Languages of the ActivVisionTools GUI
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• What Is the Difference between ActivVisionTools and HALCON?
  
  
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