Camera calibration determines the interior and exterior camera parameters based on a sufficiently large number of accurately known three-dimensional world…
Better OCR With Deep Learning and Syntax Correction With HALCON
The two most recent milestones in the evolution of HALCON’s OCR were the automatic text reader in HALCON 12 and…
Multithreading with HALCON
A blocking call in the GUI thread also blocks the visualisation of HALCON: Instead of seeing the desired result, a…
3D Pose within HALCON
HALCON provides numerous methods to determine the 3D pose of a part. Telling a robot where the part is located in…
New Visualisation in HALCON 13
The visualisation in HALCON 13 has been completely rewritten. You might not notice these differences if you are a standard…
HALCON 13 introduces a new .NET control
HALCON 13 introduced a new .NET control for visualisation that implements basic functionality such as panning and zooming using the…
How to Ensure Accurate Measurement with Calibration
You have chosen a camera and lens and mounted them in your setup. Everything works well but you want to…
Shape-based Matching CAD Models with HALCON
HALCON’s Shape Based Matching is typically used for position recognition or alignment. For that, a pattern is trained once, and…
Segmenting With HALCON’s MSER
In machine vision, segmentation is the means by which an object in an image is separated from the background in…
How to Obtain Low Level Error Messages
Often, when you get stuck in HALCON with an exception thrown by an operator, it is helpful to take a…
Finding Planar Surfaces with Surface-based 3D Matching
HALCON’s surface-based 3D matching is a very effective tool for locating the pose of objects by matching a trained surface…
Slicing Through 3D Object Models with HALCON
HALCON offers functions for the full 3D comparison of a 3D point cloud against a model. In many cases, however,…