Expertise

Experience to get the job done

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With more than 100 years of combined experience, the engineers at Horizon Imaging can solve your complex engineering challenges, increasing the quality of your products and the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your manufacturing processes.

Specific areas of expertise include image processing, neural networks, custom software and embedded applications.

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Horizon Imaging engineers have expertise with:

Image processing
Neural networks
Software
Embedded applications

Image processing

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Need machines that can see? We give them vision.

Combined with lighting, software and control mechanisms, cameras serve a variety of functions in manufacturing. Accomplishing tasks with machine vision is a specialty for Horizon Imaging.

Areas of expertise

Object processing

Measure object length and width
Orient objects
Check other shape features, such as circularity

Color segmentation

Color algorithms using neural networks to minimize teaching
RBG, LAB and YUV color spaces

Filtering

Wavelets
Use of various edge detectors, such as Canny, Sobel and Laplacian of Gaussian
Morphology, such as binary, grayscale and skeletonization

Neural networks

Shown are pictures and graphs of various neural networks.

Need smarter machines? We teach them.

Horizon Imaging applies supervised and unsupervised neural networks to problems in image processing and biometrics. Machine learning algorithms can be combined for various classification problems. At an SPIE conference, the Horizon Imaging group has presented research on neural network preprocessing techniques for images.

Areas of expertise

Self-organizing maps

Initialization with PCA transform
Hierarchy of SOMs
Post-process SOM with labeling

Back propagation networks

PCA transform preprocessor
Wavelet transform preprocessor

Ensemble of neural networks

Image divided into zones
Neural network per zone
Combine using a voting scheme

Radial basis functions

K-means clustering preprocessing
SOM preprocessing

Software

From touch screens to database apps and everywhere in between, we’ve got you covered.

Need custom software? We code it.

Horizon Imaging has more than 100 years of combined experience with software development. Our experience runs back almost 30 years, and probably doesn’t need to detail the PDP-11 or VME days. However, we’re certainly in the mainstream with today’s IDEs and operating systems.

Areas of expertise

Operating systems

Windows
Unix (System 5, BSD, Lynux, Interactive, etc.)
Proprietary

RTOS

QNX
PSOS
Wind River
Blunk
XPE
Others

IDEs

Visual Studio (C++ and VB)
Metrowerks
QNX
IAR
Cygnal
Others

Plus more

GUI, touch screen, command line
Graphics
Custom controls
Database
Server/client
Protocol stack
Interprocess communications
Software tools
Embedded applications
I/O, encoders, ports
Protocols: SPI, 485, 232, JTAG, etc.

Embedded applications

Just some of the lab equipment we use to get your job done right.

Need embedded applications? We build them.

Horizon Imaging has built electronics with more than 50 different micros, covering a spectrum from small controllers to powerful DSPs and mainframe processors. We’re fluent with in-circuit emulators, oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. One huge step forward has been the development of commercial RTOS, which we recommend. Small footprint, real-time, preemptive, multi-threaded kernel, protocol stack, and C or C++ development with a reasonable soft-ice debugger will finish off your application with the least cost and fewest errors.