Matrox adds functionality to hardware-independent, 32-bit imaging API that is used for quickly developing reusable code for vision applications
November 19 1996, Montreal, Canada - Today, the Matrox Imaging Products Group
announced a new revision to its high-level Matrox Imaging Library (MIL), a set of optimized 'C' functions used to develop machine vision, medical imaging, and
image analysis applications. The features and enhancements in this release include support for multiprocessor configurations and a dedicated Matrox PCI
image processor, letting developers take full advantage of the industry shift to the PC for building high-performance vision systems at lower costs. Other
additions include new pattern matching, measurement, and image processing functionality, multiprocessing and multithreading compliance for Windows NT/95, and enhanced video-in-a-window support.
Enhancements to the pattern matching and measurement modules increase algorithm robustness and provide greater programming flexibility and control.
Image processing enhancements, such as support for packed binary data types, increase processing efficiency. Of particular interest to machine vision developers is the search with rotate function,
which searches for a model with a full 360 degrees tolerance. An example application area that will benefit from this new functionality includes robotics "pick and place".
MIL is hardware-independent, giving developers a clear upgrade path to existing and future Matrox imaging hardware, and the ability to reuse imaging code.
