On March 28, 2022, Hikvision Robotics held a grand global launch of new machine vision technologies and new products, which came to a successful conclusion. A full range of new machine vision products, industrial cameras, smart cameras, 3D cameras and other major hardware products were released at the meeting, and an upgraded version of VM4.2 software was brought, opening a new era of machine vision empowering industry transformation and upgrading.
Open innovation and build an ecosystem
At the beginning of the conference, Zhang Wencong, vice president of Hikvision Robotics, delivered a speech on the theme of "Open Innovation, Co-construction of Ecology", sharing the innovation and strategic layout of Hikvision Robotics in the fields of imaging acquisition, AI, multi-dimensional perception and other technologies. Zhang Wencong pointed out that the machine vision industry chain is in a period of change. For this reason, Hikvision Robot needs to create a more open and cooperative ecology, so as to better serve customers and help the upgrading and development of the industry.
In the past year, while actively responding to external changes, Hikvision Robotics continued to invest resources internally to consolidate its foundation. In addition to Hangzhou R&D Center, Xi'an R&D Center was newly established on the R&D side to make full use of Xi'an's talent advantages and strengthen the R&D of basic technologies; a number of alternative solutions have been pre-researched in the selection of key components of products to ensure the product supply chain safety; the marketing side continues to promote regional sinking, adding 5 branches in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenyang and Tianjin. Up to now, it has 10 branches across the country, and has 36 offices under its jurisdiction with more than 400 employees. Visual marketer, serving more than 7,000 customers.
Combination of software and hardware, product line upgrade
The machine vision business of Hikvision Robot has now formed three major product lines: standard, intelligent ID and 3D, and its product layout in the field of machine vision is increasingly perfect. Zhang Wencong said: "Internally, through standardization and modular design, we ensure the standardization of hardware products; externally, by building a software ecosystem centered on the VM algorithm software platform, we ensure the openness of the software. The combination of the two guarantees us Every product line, every product series, and even every product is sufficiently competitive in the open market competition."
Standard product: high-quality imaging, witness the wonderful
Zhang Zhenhua, director of machine vision products of Hikvision Robotics, had an in-depth discussion with everyone on "how to build an excellent imaging acquisition system". Zhang Zhenhua pointed out that an excellent imaging acquisition system should ensure that the imaging part can obtain high-quality original images, maximize the difference between target features and background, and perform stable transmission and acquisition through appropriate protocols, and the subsequent processing unit can efficiently perform algorithms. deal with. Based on various innovations in imaging and acquisition technology, Hikvision Robotics has created a complete set of excellent products. As the core module, the imaging part is constantly developing in the technical direction of high resolution, high speed, hyperspectral and higher image quality. The area scan camera series, combined with high frame rate and high resolution, newly launched a variety of high-speed cameras with 10GigE and CXP-12 interfaces to help industrial upgrading of high-speed applications such as 3D SPI/SMT AOI, improve shooting efficiency, and speed up the detection of target features. imaging. Through continuous product iteration, the line scan camera already has a full range of products such as 2k/4k/8k/16k. At the same time, according to the requirements of the PCB and packaging industries for color reproduction, an upgraded version of the 8k PRO color camera has been introduced. Various functions such as edge correction and super toning promote imaging to higher image performance. In the infrared band, the long-wave infrared industrial camera is expanded, and the vanadium oxide uncooled detector is used, which has high sensitivity and strong ease of use.
In the acquisition module, Hikvision Robot released a blockbuster product family - self-developed acquisition card series. The family covers various common interfaces for vision applications, such as GigE, USB3.0, CoaXPress and Camera link. The series combines our understanding of the machine vision industry, reforms and innovates the stability of acquisition and transmission, and insures data reliability. At the same time, the capture card products support the pre-processing of some ISP operations, such as color image interpolation and image flipping, which can liberate CPU performance and reduce image processing time. With the current shortage of capture cards in the market, the advantages of the supply chain are used to ensure that customers can have better delivery of complete sets of solutions.
Smart Products: Innovating and Sharing Excellence
Hu Zhigang, director of the intelligent ID product line, shared around "innovation and sharing excellence". First of all, Hu Zhigang introduced the more open, safer and more excellent VM4.2. In terms of openness, the 4.2 version of the VM realizes the opening of the underlying module framework, supports developers to customize function modules, and designs a fragment implantation development mode for developers who wish to call VM-SDK on the basis of the existing vision system. . In terms of security, VM4.2 not only supports multi-level encryption at the software level, but also innovatively implements the privatization function of the dongle to protect developers' achievements in multiple dimensions. In addition, more than 10 new tools including unsupervised image segmentation and anomaly detection have been added to the VM4.2 version, and the performance and efficiency of multiple tools have been optimized to make the VM algorithm platform perform better in applications.
The ID product family focuses on how to make data more reliable, more convenient for collection, and more flexible in application, and continuously optimizes algorithms to polish products. On the basis of a wealth of stationary smart code readers, a new line of handheld code readers has been added. Handheld barcode readers with excellent barcode reading performance tailored for industrial application scenarios—IDH7010 series. At the same time, it continues to enrich the ID2000 series products, adding multiple sub-series such as telephoto version, C-mount version, and economical type, which further expands the application surface of ID2000.
In addition, the SC smart camera family has also ushered in an enhanced version of the AI smart camera SC7000Pro. This product has a larger resolution and can cover a larger field of view and achieve higher precision under the same pixel accuracy; more complete visual functions, new Dozens of visual tools have been added to cover various applications such as positioning, measurement, identification, detection, and robot guidance.
3D products: 3D set sail, the future of wisdom
The 3D vision product line of Hikvision Robot mainly focuses on the two fields of high-precision 3D measurement and 3D vision-guided control. For 3D vision-guided control, the RGBD product series has been launched. Based on the RGBD stereo camera product series, 3D product line director Wang Chunmao shared some applications of 3D cameras in typical scenes.
MV-DB500S RGBD Stereo Camera is specially designed for robot automatic package supply. The robot automatic package supply system collects the point cloud and image of the package on the incoming belt through the MV-DB500S, and further performs visual processing such as package segmentation, pose estimation, package classification, etc., which greatly improves the degree of automation in the express logistics industry and solves the problem. Difficulty in employment.
MV-DB1300A RGBD stereo camera is specially designed for depalletizing and palletizing applications in warehousing and logistics scenarios. It uses deep learning algorithms to accurately locate pallets and divide boxes. The algorithm has good adaptability and integrates intelligent trajectory planning algorithms for accurate calculation. The grasping point, placing point and the motion trajectory of the robot guide the robot to efficiently complete the grasping and stacking actions. In addition, the MV-DLS800P RGBD stereo camera will be launched in the middle of this year to serve 3D vision-guided robot disordered grasping solutions, which can be widely used in auto parts, machining, metal manufacturing and other industries.
In order to promote the popularization of robot vision guidance applications and allow more developers to complete the development work more conveniently, Hikvision Robotics also launched the RobotPilot robot vision guidance control platform to create an open ecosystem for robot vision guidance applications and promote the application of vision guidance robots. popularity.
Global release
Based on the business coverage of Hikvision Robot in more than 50 countries and regions around the world, this conference on new machine vision technologies and new products will be held globally at the same time. Hikvision insists on localized products and services to meet the upgrade needs of customers in different regions for machine vision technology and software and hardware products.
