What is HALCON?

HALCON is the comprehensive standard software for industrial image processing (Machine Vision) with integrated development environment (IDE), which is used worldwide. HALCON enables costs to be reduced and ensures faster market availability. The flexible software architecture enables rapid application development for industrial and medical image processing and image analysis.

What does HALCON offer?

In addition to exceptional performance and GPU acceleration, HALCON offers extensive support for multicore platforms and instruction set extensions such as SSE2, AVX and AVX2. HALCON covers all industries: The comprehensive library with more than 2,000 operators has been proven in tens of thousands of industrial applications and offers e.g. blob analysis, morphology, matching, surveying, identification and 3D vision.

Why HALCON?

HALCON secures investments through its compatibility with the operating systems Windows, Linux and OS X. The entire library can be accessed through common programming languages such as C, C++ and .NET languages such as C# or VB.NET. HALCON guarantees hardware independence through a variety of interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and frame grabbers as well as support for standards such as GenICam, GigE Vision and USB3 Vision.