Software - Matrox Helios Series Installation And Hardware Reference

18 Chapter 1: Introduction
MIL
MIL-Lite
ActiveMIL

Software

To operate Matrox Helios, you can purchase one or more Matrox Imaging software
products that supports the board. These are the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL)
and its derivatives (MIL-Lite, ActiveMIL, ActiveMIL-Lite, and Matrox
Inspector). All Matrox software is supported under Windows; consult your
software manual for supported Windows environments.
❖ Note that, although other software products might be available to operate Matrox
Helios, the discussion throughout this manual is based in terms of Matrox Imaging
software products.
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 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,
character recognition (template-based and feature-based), and code recognition
(1D, 2D and composite code types). calibration, character recognition
(template-based and feature-based), pattern recognition (normalized grayscale
correlation and Geometric Model Finder), edge finding, and code read/write
operations.
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.
ActiveMIL is a set of ActiveX controls that are based on MIL. ActiveMIL was
designed for rapid application development (RAD) tools, such as Microsoft's
Visual Basic. ActiveMIL is included with MIL (ActiveMIL-Lite is included with
MIL-Lite).