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Technology competition for students and young talent
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MVTec provided support as a Silver Sponsor
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Mentoring for contestants
Munich, March 07, 2019 – Young technology talent must be encouraged. This is the motto under which MVTec Software GmbH (www.mvtec.com) participated in the Smart Green Island Makeathon 2019. In its role as Silver Sponsor, the Munich-based provider of standard machine vision software supported the event, which took place from February 20 to 23 in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. The competition organized by ITQ GmbH gave 270 contestants from 70 universities in 21 countries the opportunity to prove their technical talents. Their task was to work in teams to develop prototypes for smart, green, and innovative products within a short period of time. In addition to financial sponsorship, MVTec made its HALCON standard machine vision software available to the students. The company's employees also mentored the young talents and offered them professional support in developing their projects with MVTec’s machine vision software.
Forming development teams and generating ideas
ITQ advises customers on the link between software and mechanics and would like to spark interest among young people for technological subjects by organizing events like the Smart Green Island Makeathon in Gran Canaria. During the four-day competition, the participants first learned how to form effective development teams and generate promising ideas. In several pitch sessions, the future technology experts presented their proposals, implementation plans, and project results to the approximately 400 contestants and guests.
"By participating in the Smart Green Island Makeathon 2019, we underscore our dedication to sponsoring the next generation of technology-oriented students," explains Dr. Olaf Munkelt, Managing Director of MVTec. "The event impressively demonstrated how sustainable, innovative projects in the areas of digitalization and climate protection can be implemented using our software. As a technology leader for standard machine vision software, we are delighted to see so much interest and enthusiasm for our products and our company. We also appreciate the excellent ideas and prototypes that these young people created using our technology."
About MVTec
MVTec is a leading manufacturer of standard software for machine vision. MVTec products are used in all demanding areas of imaging: Semi-conductor industry, web inspection, quality control and inspection applications in general, medicine, 3D vision, and surveillance. MVTec, with its head office in Munich (Germany), has more than 30 established distributors worldwide and in addition, MVTec, LLC works out of Boston, MA (USA). www.mvtec.com
About MVTec HALCON
MVTec HALCON is the comprehensive standard software for machine vision with an integrated development environment (HDevelop) that is used worldwide. It enables cost savings and improved time to market. HALCON’s flexible architecture facilitates rapid development of any kind of machine vision application. MVTec HALCON provides outstanding performance and a comprehensive support of multi-core platforms, special instruction sets like AVX2 and NEON, as well as GPU acceleration. It serves all industries, with a library used in hundreds of thousands of installations in all areas of imaging like blob analysis, morphology, matching, measuring, and identification. The software provides the latest state-of-the-art machine vision technologies, such as comprehensive 3D vision and deep learning algorithms.
The software secures your investment by supporting a wide range of operating systems and providing interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and frame grabbers, in particular by supporting standards like GenICam, GigE Vision, and USB3 Vision. By default, MVTec HALCON runs on Arm®-based smart cameras and other embedded vision platforms. It can also be ported to various microprocessors/DSPs, operating systems, and compilers. Thus, the software is ideally suited for the use within embedded systems. www.halcon.com, www.embedded-vision-software.com
About MVTec MERLIC
MVTec MERLIC is the all-in-one software product for quickly building machine vision applications without any need for programming. It is based on MVTec's extensive machine vision expertise and combines reliable, fast performance with ease of use. An image-centered user interface and intuitive interaction concepts like easyTouch provide an efficient workflow, which leads to time and cost savings. MERLIC provides powerful tools to design and build complete machine vision applications with a graphical user interface, integrated PLC communication, and image acquisition based on industry standards.
All standard machine vision tools such as calibration, measuring, counting, checking, reading, position determination, as well as 3D vision with height images are included in MVTec MERLIC. Furthermore, the software is able to execute tools in parallel, increasing overall efficiency and improving the implementation of multi-camera-setups. MERLIC’s features are all based on the latest state-of-the-art machine vision technologies, such as matching or deep learning. The software is available for Windows-based PC and embedded platforms, making it ideally suited for use in smart cameras. www.merlic.com
