CVB Image Manager

CVB Image Manager is the core of the product and is required in every CVB application. The unique functionality and approach of the CVB Image Manager as an open standard provides an excellent basis for custom algorithms and applications in industrial image processing.

The CVB Image Manager offers unrivalled functionality in image acquisition, image handling, image display and image processing.

It contains an extensive set of basic functionality allowing you to control many different types of image acquisition devices, as well as a wide range of image handling and processing functions. Furthermore it provides an optimised display with DirectX support and non-destructive overlays, a flexible coordinate system and support for multithreaded operation.

Based on the CVB Image Manager feature for image data access, it is also easily possible to create special algorithms for your specific application, based on the tutorials delivered for all supported compilers.

What is included in the CVB Image Manager?

Support of a vast range of image acquisition devices such as frame grabbers and cameras from a variety of vendors
Handling of a variety of interfaces including GigE, USB, CameraLink, IEEE-1394
Set of interfaces for all main features of an image acquisition device such as grab, trigger, software trigger, ringbuffer, digital IO, linescan and much more
GenICam interface for control of a GenICam compliant device
Advanced support for line scan cameras with the Linescan interface
Control of the image acquisition devices digital I/O ports
Ringbuffer operation for maximum throughput
Easy integration of multiple asynchronous acquisition devices
Asynchronous acquisition with asynchronous events for processing
EMUlator as IGrabber interface to be used as an emulation of image acquisition for testing purposes

Image Display

Optimised and user friendly image display control
Live/Grabbed image display with flicker free overlay
Interactive zooming
Non-destructive overlays and labels
Destructive overlays
Areas of interest available

Image Handling

Read/write images as BMP, TIF, JPG and others
Read Video files, e.g. AVI, MPEG
Access to image data
Access to any image in memory
Free defined and scaled coordinate system for calibration

Image Processing

Histogram
Image normalisation
Minimum, maximum, mean of multiple images
Local maxima
Rotation, scaling, geometrical correction and polar transformation of images

An Introduction to Common Vision Blox Image Manager

Learn more about the features, advantages and licencing options of the core of Common Vision Blox, the Image Manager.

How to develop with Common Vision Blox (CVB)

This video shows in an easy to follow step by step explanation how to acquire and display an image with the STEMMER IMAGING machine vision software Common Vision Blox (CVB). This tutorial is mainly intended for beginners in CVB programming.