10Chapter 1: Introduction

Note that, although other software products might be available to operate Matrox Meteor-II /Camera Link, the discussion throughout this manual is based in terms of Matrox Imaging software products.

MIL

MIL is a development library which provides an extensive list of commands used

 

to capture, process, analyze, transfer, display, and archive images. Processing and

 

analysis operations include: spatial filtering operations, morphological operations,

 

measurements, blob analysis, optical character recognition (OCR), pattern

 

recognition (Normalized Grayscale Correlation and Geometric Model Finder),

 

matrix/bar code reading, and calibration.

MIL-Lite

MIL-Lite is a subset of MIL. It includes all the MIL commands for image

 

acquisition, transfer, display control, and archiving.

ActiveMIL

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).

Matrox Inspector

Matrox Inspector is an interactive Windows application for image capture,

 

processing, analysis, and archiving.

 

MIL application developers can use Matrox Inspector as a prototyping tool to

 

quickly build proof-of-concept demonstrations for their machine vision, image

 

analysis, and medical imaging system. End users can use Matrox Inspector to

 

perform and automate image enhancement and measurement tasks.

Matrox Intellicam

Matrox Intellicam is an interactive Windows program that allows fast camera

 

interfacing and provides interactive access to all the acquisition features of your

 

Matrox board. For boards that accept non-standard video sources, Matrox

 

Intellicam also has the ability to create custom digitizer configuration format

 

(DCF) files, which MIL and its derivatives use to interface to specific non-standard

 

video sources. Matrox Intellicam is included with MIL /ActiveMIL and MIL-Lite

 

/ActiveMIL-Lite.

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