MVTec
HALCON Progress 24.11
What is HALCON Progress
HALCON Progress is the fast track to the latest features. With new releases approximately every six months, it gives you access to the newest features quicker and more frequently than ever before. HALCON Progress development licenses are exclusively available via an annual subscription. A valid HALCON Progress development license grants access to all Progress releases within the subscription period. For more information about our licensing models, please visit.
HALCON Progress is the fast track to the latest features. With new releases approximately every six months, it gives you access to the newest features quicker and more frequently than ever before. HALCON Progress development licenses are exclusively available via an annual subscription. A valid HALCON Progress development license grants access to all Progress releases within the subscription period. For more information about our licensing models, please visit.
Highlights
- HALCON is your solution for the full range of applications in the field of machine vision
- Enabler of the Industrial Internet of Things (aka Industry 4.0)
- Large imaging library of more than 2,100 operators
- Integrated development environment (IDE) for machine vision: HDevelop
- Huge range of features including deep learning
- Easy programming in C, C++, C#, Python, and Visual Basic .NET
- Available for a multitude of platforms
- Support of multi-core and multiprocessor computers
- High performance through utilization of state-of-the-art instruction sets and GPU Acceleration
- Support of hundreds of industrial cameras, frame grabbers, and all common vision standards
Features
- Revolutionary software for 3D machine vision
- Matching to find even rotated or partly occluded objects
- Blob analysis with more than 50 shape and gray value features
- High-accuracy measuring
- Huge range of latest deep learning technologies
- Optical character recognition and verification (OCR/OCV)
- Arbitrarily shaped regions of interest (ROIs) for significant flexibility and speed
- Detection of lines, circles, and ellipses with an accuracy of up to 1/50 pixel
- Extremely fast morphology
- Color image processing and hyperspectral imaging
- Processing of extremely large images (more than 32k x 32k)
- Image sequence processing (e.g., for surveillance tasks)
- Accurate 3D camera calibration
Major features of HALCON 24.11
In this release the users can look forward to groundbreaking technologies and improvements. With HALCON 24.11, we are focusing on even better AI, specifically deep learning algorithms. Among other features, users can now detect and evaluate unexpected behavior in deep-learning-based classification.
Out of Distribution Detection (OOD) for Classification
new HALCON feature makes it easy to recognize unexpected behavior caused by incorrect classifications in production. Thus, users can take appropriate measures, such as stopping the machine, in a targeted and efficient manner. When using a deep learning classifier, unknown objects are assigned to one of the classes that the system has learned. This can lead to problems if, for example, the defects or objects themselves are of a type that has never occurred before. The new deep learning feature “Out of Distribution Detection (OOD)” indicates when an object is classified that was not included in the training data. For example, this could be a bottle with a green label if the system was only trained on bottles with red or yellow labels. In such cases, HALCON provides the message “Out of Distribution” together with an OOD score that indicates how much the deviation from the trained classes is.
The OOD score can also be useful when expanding deep learning models with new training images by indicating which of the new images will have the greatest value for the new model. For example, a high OOD score for a new training image indicates a greater deviation from the images already in the network – this means a higher information content and, therefore, greater value for the training.
Improved Shape-based Matching
The new HALCON version makes the “Shape-based Matching” feature, used in many applications, more user-friendly. This technology is used to find objects fast, accurately, and precisely. HALCON 24.11 includes the new patent pending "Extended Parameter Estimation" for this purpose. This allows parameters to be estimated with greater granularity, which significantly speeds up execution in some applications. “Extended Parameter Estimation” enables this estimation also for users without in-depth machine vision expertise.
Optimized QR code reader
The performance of HALCON's QR Code Reader has been significantly increased. This is particularly evident under difficult conditions, for example, when many codes need to be found in the image area or many textures in the image complicate the detection. The recognition rate has been increased and the evaluation time has been significantly reduced in demanding scenarios.
Deep 3D Matching
With this feature, HALCON 24.11 contains a deep-learning-based market innovation for the 3D vision sector, especially for bin-picking and pick-and-place applications. This feature is particularly robust in determining the exact position and rotation of a trained object and is characterized by very low parameterization effort and fast execution time. Depending on the accuracy requirements, one or more cost-efficient standard 2D cameras can be used to determine the position. Training is performed exclusively on synthetic data generated from a CAD model. Further training is therefore not required.
Customers can already run this feature in HALCON 24.11 – to train the model and evaluate applications, they can contact MVTec at any time. Training and evaluation within HALCON will follow in the next release.
HALCON’s GigE Vision interface supports RoCEv2
With this release, HALCON's GigE Vision interface supports the RoCEv2 network protocol, which enables increased performance in image transmission.
Improved HALCON Progress edition
HALCON Progress is now fully compatible with the HALCON Steady edition. Progress users can now collaborate with Steady users on the same projects. Additionally, HALCON Progress users will receive the same maintenance updates as HALCON Steady users. In the future, switching from Steady to Progress will simply require exchanging the license file.
AGRICULTURE & FOOD
Identification of natural products,automated fruit picking and sorting, or fill level measurement: HALCON is a technology for producers and packagers alike to achieve efficient and consistent production and keep up with the ever-changing demands of consumers.
AUTOMOTIVE & ROBOTICS
Determine the 3D pose of objects, extract 3D data for bin picking or robot path planning: HALCON's unique 3D vision techniques open new possibilities for numerous automotive and robotics applications.
LOGISTICS & PACKAGING
Quality control, completeness inspection, identification, or bar & data code reading: HALCON offers outstanding methods in all areas of logistics and packaging.
ELECTRONICS & SEMICONDUCTORS
Precise assembly, surface inspection or defect detection during the entire manufacturing process: With HALCON, system manufacturers are fully equipped to implement advanced processes at reduced costs.
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