HALCON is a set of perfect and standard machine vision algorithm packages developed by German MVtec company, which has a widely used integrated development environment for machine vision. It saves the product cost and shortens the software development cycle-the flexible architecture of ——HALCON promotes the rapid development of machine vision, medical images and image analysis applications. It has been recognized as the best machine vision software in Europe and Japan.

HALCON comes from academia, which is different from the general commercial software packages on the market. In fact, this is an image processing library, which consists of more than 1000 independent functions and the underlying data management core. It includes various basic geometric and image computing functions, such as filtering, color and geometry, mathematical transformation, morphological calculation and analysis, correction, classification and recognition, shape search and so on. Because most of these functions are not designed for specific work, as long as the image is processed, the work can be completed by using HALCON's powerful calculation and analysis ability. The application scope is almost infinite, covering medicine, remote sensing detection, monitoring and all kinds of automatic detection in industry.

HALCON supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating environments, which ensures the effectiveness of investment. The whole function library can be accessed by many common programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Visual basic and Delphi. HALCON provides interfaces for a large number of image acquisition devices to ensure the independence of hardware. It provides interfaces for 100 industrial cameras and image acquisition cards, including GenlCam, GigE and IIDC 1394.