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MVTec sets new standards with launch of HALCON 20.11

by Lee Mclaughlan
November 20, 2020
in Machine Vision, News, News Feed, Products, Software
Deep OCR – One step closer to human reading
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MVTec Software has today released its standard software HALCON 20.11 with new and updated features to improve the efficiency of machine vision processes.

The consistent further development of all included technologies emphasizes HALCON’s role as a leading standard library and software for machine vision. The new version is available in both a Steady and a Progress edition, meaning that the full range of new Progress features is now also available to HALCON Steady customers.

Mario Bohnacker, technical product manager HALCON, will present a webinar to provide detailed insights into the new and improved features of HALCON 20.11 on Thursday, November 26 and Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Further information and registration for the webinar can be found here.

MVTec experts have optimised a number of core technologies in HALCON 20.11, including a new 2D code type known as DotCode. It is based on a matrix of dots and can be printed very fast, which makes it especially suitable for high-speed applications, for instance in the tobacco industry.

Another new feature is Deep OCR, which introduces a holistic deep-learning-based approach for optical character recognition (OCR). Deep OCR can localise numbers and letters much more robustly, regardless of their orientation, font type, and polarity.

The ability to group characters automatically allows the identification of whole words. This improves the recognition performance significantly and avoids the misinterpretation of characters with similar appearances.

The core technology shape-based matching was also optimised in HALCON 20.11. More parameters are now estimated automatically, which improves both user-friendliness and the matching rate in low contrast and high noise situations. The new release demonstrates significant improvements in the 3D environment as well. Edge-supported, surface-based 3D matching is now significantly faster for 3D scenes with many objects and edges. Usability has also been improved by removing the need to set a viewpoint.

HALCON 20.11 includes a new and unique method for robustly extracting edges with the aid of deep learning. Especially for scenarios where a large number of edges are visible in an image, the deep-learning-based edge extraction function can be trained with only a few images to reliably extract only the desired edges.

This greatly reduces the programming effort for processes of this type. Out of the box, the pretrained network is able to robustly detect edges in low contrast and high noise situations. This makes it possible to also extract edges that cannot be identified with conventional edge detection filters. In addition, “Pruning for Deep Learning” now enables users to subsequently optimise a fully trained deep learning network. They can now control the priority of the parameters speed, storage, and accuracy and thus modify the network precisely according to application-specific requirements.

“With this new release, we are raising HALCON’s core technologies to the next level. Users benefit from numerous sophisticated, mature, and field-proven features. As a result, we once again emphasize HALCON’s role as leading standard machine vision software,” said Bohnacker.

“Users of our Deep Learning Tool may be excited as well,” added Christian Eckstein, product manager deep learning tool at MVTec.

“Close to the release of HALCON 20.11, there will also be a new version of the MVTec Deep Learning Tool. With this, users will be able to evaluate their trained network directly in the tool. With this addition, the Deep Learning Tool now covers the entire deep learning workflow for the first time.”

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