Matrox 4Sight EV6 Installation And Hardware Reference page 12

12 Chapter 1: Before you begin
MIL
MIL-Lite
Imaging projects can:
• Grab images from your camera or use images from disk.
• Analyze images using several industry-proven image analysis and measurement
tools (for example, code and geometric model finder tools).
• Send and receive user-defined auxiliary I/O signals from the auxiliary I/O
terminal-block connector of your Matrox 4Sight EV6.
• Send and receive information from the serial ports of your Matrox 4Sight EV6.
• Send and receive information and save images across the network using the
TCP/IP protocol and communicate with external devices using the Modbus or
EtherNet/IP industrial protocol.
• Communicate with industrial robots to offer an integrated machine vision
solution.
MIL is a high-level programming library with an extensive set of optimized
functions for image capture, processing, analysis, transfer, compression, display,
and archiving. Image processing operations include point-to-point, statistical,
spatial filtering, morphological, geometric transformation, and FFT operations.
Analysis operations support camera calibration, are performed with sub-pixel
accuracy, and include pattern recognition (normalized grayscale correlation and
Geometric Model Finder), blob analysis, edge extraction and analysis,
measurement, image registration, metrology, character recognition
(template-based and for both normal and dot-matrix text, feature based), code
recognition and verification (1D, 2D, and composite code types), bead
(continuous strips of material) inspection, 3D processing and analysis,
classification analysis, and color analysis.
MIL applications are easily ported to new Matrox hardware platforms and can be
designed to take advantage of multi-processing and multi-threading
environments.
MIL-Lite is a subset of MIL. It includes all the MIL functions for image
acquisition, transfer, display control, and archiving. It also allows you to perform
processing operations that are typically useful to preprocess grabbed images.