Experience Industry 4.0 and the IIoT live: MVTec presents machine vision portfolio at HANNOVER MESSE

• Highlights: HALCON and MERLIC software • Innovative deep learning functions for high recognition rates • Interactive live demos provide practical insights into machine vision

Munich, March 8, 2018 - MVTec Software GmbH (www.mvtec.com), the leading provider of machine vision software, will showcase its extensive portfolio at HANNOVER MESSE from April 23 to 27, 2018, with a focus on the two flagship products HALCON and MERLIC. In the Application Park Robotics, Automation & Vision in hall 17, booth E42/6, visitors will find exciting live demos that offer practical insights into the benefits of machine vision in Industry 4.0 (aka the Industrial Internet of Things or IIoT for short) and Smart Factory environments. This year, the focus is on innovative deep learning functions based on artificial intelligence.


HALCON 17.12: Deep learning for intelligent object recognition and inspection
A live demo will illustrate, among other things, how advanced deep learning technologies in MVTec HALCON 17.12 optimize the identification of objects using optical character recognition (OCR). In addition, the demo shows how objects (various fruit in this case) can be classified precisely. The demo also demonstrates the targeted and robust detection of defects in pills. Visitors to the booth will obtain practical insights into the future-oriented application fields that deep learning offers for machine vision. The various applications can be selected directly using a touch screen. Industry managers interested in machine vision solutions will discover how easily and quickly standardized deep learning functions can be put to use at their company and how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be self-trained at a reasonable cost. Companies do not require highly-specialized staff with extensive machine vision knowledge for this purpose, and also save time and costs for programming.

MERLIC: Recognizes a wide variety of fonts
This year's trade fair appearance by MVTec will also focus on MVTec MERLIC, the software for the easy development of professional machine vision applications. Another live demo shows how the software runs on an ADLINK smart camera. In this case, deep-learning-based OCR functions are used to exactly recognize a wide variety of fonts on packaging, such as expiry dates or batch numbers, just in fractions of a second. In addition, visitors to the booth can also see how MERLIC works seamlessly with a programmable logic controller (PLC), and how the remote front end can be visualized on a mobile platform.


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, 3D vision, and surveillance. MVTec, with its head office in Munich (Germany), has more than 30 established distributors worldwide and in addition, MVTec, LLC works out of Boston, MA (USA). www.mvtec.com

About MVTec HALCON
MVTec HALCON is the comprehensive standard software for machine vision with an integrated development environment (HDevelop) that is used worldwide. It enables cost savings and improved time to market. HALCONs flexible architecture facilitates rapid development of any kind of machine vision application. MVTec HALCON provides outstanding performance and a comprehensive support of multi-core platforms, special instruction sets like AVX2 and NEON, as well as GPU acceleration. It serves all industries, with a library used in hundreds of thousands of installations in all areas of imaging like blob analysis, morphology, matching, measuring, and identification. The software provides the latest state-of-the-art machine vision technologies, such as comprehensive 3D vision and deep learning algorithms.
The software secures your investment by supporting a wide range of operating systems and providing interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and frame grabbers, in particular by supporting standards like GenICam, GigE Vision, and USB3 Vision. By default, MVTec HALCON runs on Arm®-based smart cameras and other embedded vision platforms. It can also be ported to various microprocessors/DSPs, operating systems, and compilers. Thus, the software is ideally suited for the use within embedded systems.
www.halcon.com, www.embedded-vision-software.com

About MVTec MERLIC
MVTec MERLIC is an all-in-one software product for quickly building machine vision applications without any need for programming. It is based on MVTec's extensive machine vision expertise and combines reliable, fast performance with ease of use. An image-centered user interface and intuitive interaction concepts like easyTouch provide an efficient workflow, which leads to time and cost savings. MERLIC provides powerful tools to design and build complete machine vision applications with a graphical user interface, integrated PLC communication, and image acquisition based on industry standards.
All standard machine vision tools such as calibration, measuring, counting, checking, reading, as well as position determination are included in MERLIC. These are all based on the latest state-of-the-art machine vision technologies, such as matching or deep learning. MERLIC is available for Windows-based PC and embedded platforms, making it ideally suited for use in smart cameras. www.merlic.com

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