Vision Apps: One camera, countless possibilities
IDS opens the IDS NXT platform with the Vision App Creator for programmers and AI specialists
IDS NXT Experience Kit is all about making image processing with artificial intelligence as easy to use as possible. Users without deep learning or programming knowledge are supported by precisely coordinated workflows and tools. Vision apps are one of the key components: they allow image processing tasks on IDS NXT cameras to be used and switched as easily as apps on a smartphone.
With the IDS NXT Experience Kit software update, customers can now use the new vision apps "Classifier" and "Object Detector" to classify image components or identify specific objects using artificial intelligence. All they have to do is train a neural network and import it into the appropriate vision app - this is all it takes to get the application ready for use. Training is easiest with the cloud software IDS lighthouse. It can be operated intuitively, requires no software installation and creates an individual neural network optimized for IDS NXT industrial cameras in just a few steps.
The vision app concept also ensures that users are able to determine for themselves which image processing tasks their cameras solve, regardless of whether simple barcode recognition or complex AI analyses are required. For this purpose, IDS now also provides the IDS NXT Vision App Creator SDK. Developers and AI specialists can use it to delve even deeper into the system, create individual vision apps and adapt IDS NXT cameras even better to their requirements. The application scenarios are almost limitless - even the combination of classifications or object recognition with classic image processing, such as measurement tasks, can now be realized in one device.