HALCON is a powerful machine vision development system. It can be used in a wide range of application areas and offers an extensive set of operators combined with optimized data structures. It is designed to fulfill the needs of OEMs and system integrators when developing state-of-the-art vision systems. In addition to the library functions, HALCON comprises tools that make the development significantly easier, e.g., HDevelop, which is used for prototyping and image inspection.
Audience
This course is intended for vision engineers who have some knowledge about machine vision and want to start using HALCON for application development and prototyping.
Prerequisites
The participants must have basic knowledge in machine vision and programming.
Content
Day 1
- Introduction to HALCON
- General introduction (company & products)
- HDevelop programming examples
- HALCON data structures
- Overview on HALCON functionality
- Updates and support
- Parallelization
- HALCON language interfaces and HDevEngine
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The goal of this course is to teach participants the knowledge and skills necessary to start working with HALCON. The complete functionality is presented to give ideas which part of HALCON can be used for different application areas and how solutions are being developed.
At the end of day 1, participants will be able to
- use all the tools that come with HALCON
- find all necessary information for working with HALCON
- understand the different programming styles of HALCON
- know the basic concepts of the HALCON data structures
- know all of the most important functionalities of HALCON
- know how to make use of them
- know specific details on application development like licensing, updates, and support
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Day 2
- Practical Introduction to HALCON
- Image acquisition
- Blob analysis
- Shape-based Matching
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The aim of this course is to learn working with HDevelop by programming simple example applications supervised by an experienced coach. First, the participants learn how to acquire images from a camera. This is always the first step before being able to do serious machine vision. Building on that, the participants first develop a small blob analysis application, and after that a matching application. During this process the needed concepts are introduced step by step while the tasks become more complex.
At the end of day 2, participants will
- have gained a lot of practice to do their own applications in HDevelop
- understand the workflow for developing a HALCON application
- use HDevelop for prototyping and application development
- know how to connect an arbitrary camera to HALCON
- know how to use the image acquisition interface
- know the basics of segmentation and feature extraction
- be able to develop simple blob analysis applications including visualization of the results
- know the basics of shape-based matching
- know how to generate and inspect shape-based models and how to find them in the image
Costs are 600 euros per person for two days including lunch.
Minimum 8 attendees.
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