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News Release from: MVTec Software | Subject: Halcon 8.0 machine vision system
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 July 2007
System recognises jumbled 3D objects
Time-consuming special programming as well as stereo assemblies with two cameras are no longer necessary.
The software library for the Halcon 8.0 machine vision system from MVTec enables the identification of arbitrarily orientated objects Halcon's shape-based matching already allowed the fast, reliable, and robust identification of 2D objects
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the new version 8.0, this also applies for 3D objects in arbitrary 3D positions and orientations.
Only a CAD model of the object has to be imported and trained.
Halcon 8.0 was extended to support the industrial standard to read DXF files.
During the training of the CAD model, Halcon computes the two-dimensional projections of the possible 3D poses of the object onto the image.
Therefore, the imaging system needs only one camera.
Time-consuming special programming as well as stereo assemblies with two cameras are no longer necessary.
Now, robots can identify scattered objects in their exact 3D pose and pick them up.
Because of its speed, Halcon's 3rd Generation Matching also enables real-time applications.
The 3D object recognition is not only fast and reliable, but also robust against variable illumination.
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