• Multiple document environment for viewing and manipulating images, data tables, and charts.
• Open Image dialog with thumbnail preview and multiple image selections.
• Up to 100 image frames with superimposed self-adjustable rulers
• Display range selectors for high-depth images
• Correct rendering of images in 256-color display mode
• Real-time video window for live acquisition display
• Play/stop controls and frame counter for image sequences
• Intermittent and numerical zoom controls
• Context zoom that magnifies the area of interest pointed by the cursor
• Comprehensive functional dialogs with sliding previews
• Palette bar with foreground and background color selection
• Undo/redo stack of user-selected size
• Interactive multi-channel histogram associated with an active image
• Interactive multi-channel line profile with an extensive selection of shapes (vertical, horizontal, line, rectangle, ellipse, freehand)
• Digital Editor for viewing and editing the numeric content of an active image
• Script Editor for automatic and manual scripting, debugging, storing, and executing imaging algorithms
• Live update of interface elements (images, tables, charts and previews) while running real-time scripts
• Information box for viewing and changing general image parameters
• Print dialog with image position and size adjustment and integrated preview
• Context-sensitive help: position the cursor over any interface element and press F1

• Rectangular, elliptical and freehand selections (ROI)
• Running marquee for outlining current selection
• Multiple selections automatically combined into one irregular ROI
• Add negative selections to set up a ROI with holes
• Use Magic Wand to select a connected area of similar pixels
• Copy image or selection into Windows clipboard
• Paste image from clipboard as a new image or as a selection into an existing image (supports all image formats including the high-depth ones)
• Move selection over a current image or from one image onto another
• Move images from or into another program by using a drag-and-drop operation
• Extensive set of drawing tools for direct application to all supported types of images:
  • Color picker
  • Pencil
  • Brush
  • Flood
  • Clone
  • Eraser
  • Stamp
  • Line
  • Rectangle
  • Ellipse
  • Text
  • Warp
• Adjustable width of pen
• Adjustable size, transparency, hardness, and spacing for brush family tools
• Constrain and straight line options for drawing tools
• Automatic image scrolling when a drawing tool touches the edge of the frame
• RGB/HLS interactive color editor for foreground and background color selection
• Comprehensive palette editor which allows to modify palettes of indexed color images and to change the appearance of 8-bit and 16-bit monochrome images by assigning colors to luminance values
• Automatic and interactive palette rotation
• Gray scale maps (look-up tables) for 8-bit and 16-bit monochrome images
• Edit image sequences by cutting off or inserting series of frames.

• Intel SSE2/SIMD technology utilized for performance boost
• Multithreading engine allows for performing up to 16 parallel operations simultaneously
• Automatic parallelization distributes imaging functions among several CPUs on multiprocessor and multicore systems
• Distributed image processing on several computers using Gigabit Eithernet
• Execution time of the last called function displayed for benchmarking and prototyping purposes
• Progress meters on the status bar (up to four in multiprocessing mode*) for following the execution progress of each function
• Hidden images for buffering intermediate results in scripts
• All operations performed on the current image selection
• Selectable coordinate system for processing color images (RGB, HLS, HSV, L-vector)
• Selectable overscan (invisible borders around the images) for speed-boost
• High-depth image support in all processing functions

• Conversions between all types of supported image formats
• Select the output luminance range when converting into high-depth types
• Three modes of color reduction when converting into palletized types
• Extract or merge color channels (RGB, HLS, HIS, RCH, YIQ, Lab)
• Convert a color filter array image into RGB image (Bayer filter)
• Extract or merge component images from or to a complex image (Re, Im, Amp, Phase)

• Interactive or automatic resizing with selectable bilinear smoothing
• Translate, Rotate, Flip, Reflect and Warp spatial operations
• Affine and projective image transformation
• Image alignment and stitching
• Conversion between Cartesian and Polar coordinate planes
• Arithmetic operations: Invert, Offset, Factor, Average, Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide
• Automatic application of component operations to complex images
• Logical operations: Not, And, Or, Xor, Nor, Nand, Xnor, LShift, RShift, Mask
• Feature-And function which identifies overlapping features on two images

• Real-time full screen preview during the adjustments
• Brightness/Contrast/Gamma adjustment in RGB and HLS space
• Hue/Saturation, Levels, Color balance correction
• Interactive binary and multiphase thresholding with sampling feature
• Color multiphase thresholding in RGB and HLS space.
• Several methods of automatic thresholding based on histogram analysis.
• Adaptive segmentation based on local distribution analysis

• Emphasize contours with adjustable boost
• Sharpen and unsharpen masks
• Uniform, logarithmic, exponent, and bell equalization
• Brightness normalization with selectable strength
• Dark and white field background correction
• Several methods of background elimination
• Suppress noise using Lowpass, Median, Gauss, Sigma, Salt&Pepper operations with the adjustable window and strength.
• Remove motion artifacts with Deinterlace function.
• Detect edges using Sobel, Prewitt, Laplace, Roberts, Range, Variance, HighPass, and Gradient operators.
• Find direction of edges using the Phase mode.
• Create graphic effects using Emboss, Pixelate, Floyd, and other miscellaneous filters.
• Customized convolution with user-defined kernel images

• Perform discrete and fast transform in both directions
• Create a complex image as a spectral result of direct transform
• Switch between real, imaginary, amplitude, and phase components of the spectrum
• Use graphic editing to modify the spectrum in a complex image
• Perform Fourier-based convolution and de-convolution with a user-defined kernel image

• Basic set of operators: erosion, dilation, opening, closing, tophat, contours, majority.
• Iteration-independent high-speed algorithms for binary morphology
• Multiphase-aware algorithms keep objects of different class from merging
• Proprietary high-speed thinning, thickening and pruning
• Fast convex hall in the multiphase space
• Grayscale morphology with full support of 16-bit, 32-bit, and floating point images
• Proprietary color morphology in the selectable color space
• Binary, gray and color operations with user-defined kernels
• Extensive set of geodesy functions: distance map, direction map, local min, local max, ultimate erosion, medial axis transform, end, node and saddle points
• Several metrics for distance transform including Euclidian one.
• Accurate separation of touching convex objects.
• Multiphase connectivity algorithms: labeling, filling holes, border kill, scrap cleaning
• Watershed operator extracts ridges and basins in the intensity relief.
• Link operator for connecting broken lines
• Hit-and-miss transform for binary template search.

• Built-in set of standard signal and pattern generators for prototyping and testing:
  • Random noise with user-defined amplitude, density and distribution (Uniform, Gauss, Poisson, Impulse)
  • Non-uniform light from point and line sources.
  • Gray and color wedges.
  • Gray and color grids
  • Sine wave of arbitrary amplitude, frequency, phase, and orientation

• Interactive and automatic spatial calibration
• Interactive choice of the coordinate system origin and Y-axis direction
• Watch image dimensions in calibrated units on superimposed rulers
• Set up the default spatial scale for video capture device
• Optical calibration with Lagrange and polynomial approximation.
• Name, store and load calibration scales.
• Store calibration data along with images in IWD, TIFF, and JPEG formats

• Select from more than 100 parameters using comprehensible graphic representation:
  • Object count, class, pixel count, equivalent diameter
  • Area, outline area, reference area, phase area, box area, convex area
  • Perimeter, circular perimeter, elliptical perimeter, convex perimeter
  • Circularity, ellipticity, rectangularity, convexity, roughness, aspect ratio
  • Starting and ending position, bounding box, box ratio, angle
  • Feret diameters (maximum, minimum, average), Feret angles, Feret ratio
  • Radii (maximum, minimum, average), radial angles, radial ratio
  • Diameters (maximum, minimum, average), diametric angles, elongation
  • Centroid, center of gray, major and minor axes and angles
  • Raw and normalized binary moments, skewness, assymetry
  • Chord length, vertical and horizontal intercept, anisotropy
  • Gray level, standard deviation, transmission, optical density, roughness
  • Red, green and blue average levels and standard deviations
  • Number of holes, area of holes, perforation

• Parameters-arrays of variable size: Histogram, Contour, Convex hull, Curvature, Radii, Diameters
• User-defined parameters programmed in the scripting language syntax
• Manual count and classification
• Point, line, angle, and area morphometry
• Multiphase field stereology
• Densitometry and position analysis
• Interactive object tracking by mouse or digitizer
• Automatic and interactive blob measurements
• Accumulation of results in interactive grids; clicking a line causes a correspondent object on the image to blink
• Selection or removal of objects by using a specified parameter limits
• Classification of objects by a specified parameter
• Interactive line profile

Load, view, and edit measurement data in multilevel tables-spreadsheets

• Select among three data formats: fixed, scientific, and general
• Chose between full list and selected class of objects
• Calculate additional parameters using built-in set of more than 200 spreadsheet functions including:
  • Mathematical
  • Statistical
  • String
  • Logic
  • Date and time
  • Miscellaneous
• Switch to Statistics mode to view full statistic report for each parameter
• Export data into text, HTML, dBase and Microsoft Access format
• Run-time DDE export to Microsoft Excel
• Switch to Graph mode to visualize the data in a form of multi-channel histogram, scattergram, line profile, pie, and 3D-plot

High-performance global data grids

• Display instantaneous measurement results in real time
• Double click a cell with a parameter-array and watch its elements reported in a popup grid
• Interactively connect grid cells to script variable
• Open data charts linked to desired measurement parameters

Analyze and edit the pixel values of an active image in an interactive Digital Editor:

• Observe and edit* pixel values separated into channels and formatted with regard to the type of an active image
• Scroll the pixel table to a new location and watch the marker on the image move accordingly
• Drag the marker on the image to a new location and watch the table scroll accordingly (in development)
• Change the active image selection using the Selection Tool and watch an instant change of values in the Digital Editor
• Apply any image processing function and watch an instant digital result
• Click a table cell and use an emerged spin control to gradually change pixel values
• Select a group of pixels on a table and fill it with a background color
• Watch pixel values changing in real-time for live images and sequences

Decode 1D and 2D barcodes from an image:

• Locate and decode 1D barcodes: UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2/5
• Locate and decode 2D barcodes: QR Code, DataMatrix, PDF417

Analyze the active image histogram in an interactive Histogram box:

• Choose among several profile shapes: vertical, horizontal, line, rectangle, ellipse, freehand
• Switch between different channels of color images (R, G, B, H, L, S, Y, I, Q)
• Select a desired intensity range for profile analysis
• Switch between Table and Graph modes
• View statistics collected along the profile line
• Drag a profile line over the image and watch a synchronous update of the graph
• Watch profile animation for live images and sequences

Display comprehensive Excel-style data charts

• Link a chart to a desired data table or global grid
• Choose a measurement parameters and channels for data series
• Display a distribution of objects' population in form of bar or line histograms
• Display a distribution of a parameter on a pie diagram
• Analyze a correlation between two measurements using a scattergram with a polynomial fit.
• Plot several measurements against each other on a 3D multi-histogram
• Adjust an appearance of titles, axes, tick marks, and background
• Watch live update of charts linked to real-time data

• Built-in high-level scripting language with parallel processing engine:
  • Visual Basic subset syntax
  • Automatic compilation for higher performance
  • Integer, floating point and string variables
  • Support of objects with dynamic memory allocation
  • Predefined frequently used constants
  • Nested arithmetic and logical expressions
  • IF/THEN/ELSE/END IF and GOTO branch operators
  • Cycle operators (FOR/TO/STEP/NEXT, WHILE/WEND, DO/LOOP)
  • Nested subroutines and functions (SUB/END SUB, FUNCTION/END FUNCTION)
  • THREAD operator for parallel processing
  • Terminal window for rapid data input/output (INPUT, PRINT)
  • Dialog window for interactive input/output (DIALOG)
  • Direct access to imageWarp's global data tables for real-time data management
  • Set of serial communication commands (COM and Camera Link ports)
  • More than 200 built-in image processing, data manipulaton, graphic editing, and screen management functions
• Comprehensive Script Editor with command line support:
  • Use Record button to log all the interface commands into the script
  • Use Play button to playback the recorded session
  • Use Step, Step Into and Step Over buttons to perform step-by-step execution
  • Insert breakpoints for halting the execution of the script at desired lines.
  • Debug your script using variable watch and error window.
  • Change the execution point by double-clicking on a desired line
  • Insert new operators and functions into the script by manual editing
  • Use keyword highlighting and popup tips for help on syntax
  • Enter a single command in the command line box and execute it outside the script
  • Save the current script and reload it later
• Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
  • Harness imageWarp's functionality from within your own application
  • Have a full control of imageWarp by executing prerecorded scripts or issuing run-time script commands
  • Establish a hot-link to imageWarp and make it notify your application when important event occur
  • Retrieve the results of image analysis and process them further with your own algorithms
• Automation (COM)
  • Integrate ImageWarp into your application by using it as a COM sever
  • Access hundreds of ImageWarp functions using COM methods and properties
  • Exchange images between your application and imageWarp
  • Synchronize your application and ImageWarp with a set of COM events
  • Run ImageWarp in invisible mode and provide end-users with your own GUI
• Proof of concept
  • Use our expertise in image analysis to get a free support with building your application
  • Send us your images and receive a working script which you can utilize as a programming template

• Intel Pentium 4 or higher class CPU (Quad-core CPU recommended)
• Microsoft Windows Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, 32- or 64-bit platform
• A minimum of 512 Mbytes of RAM (2 Gbytes recommended)
• FireWire(IEEE-1394), USB 3.0 or/and GigE adapter
• Supported frame grabber or video capture card

• WDM (DirectShow)and VFW (Video for Windows) devices
• TWAIN-supported devices
• FireWire (IEEE-1394) digital cameras, IIDC 1.32 compliant
• Gigabit Ethernet cameras, GigE Vision 1.x and 2.x compliant
• USB 3.0 cameras, USB3 Vision 1.x compliant
• GenTL-supported devices, GenICam compliant
• Bitflow CameraLink, CoaXPress, LVDS and analog boards: RoadRunner, R3, R64, Neon, Karbon, Alta
• Video simulation

OEM development, special modules and custom functions are available on demand