Imatest, LLC, a leader in image quality testing software, analysis, test charts, and test lab equipment, and Furonteer, the forerunner in the field of ADAS/Autonomous Sensing Camera Assembly & Test Equipment, announced that Furonteer has purchased the exclusive license to Imatest’s intrinsic geometric calibration software. The two companies partnered originally in 2019 to launch the Imatest-Furonteer geometric calibration solution.
Imatest Version 2021.1 adds several new features to Imatest Master and Imatest IT, including edge tracking during live focusing, alignment tools in device manager, new subjective exposure quality loss calculation, OpenEXR support, live exposure and white balance measurements and several customer-requested features.
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Imatest LLC Chief Technical Officer and Founder Norman Koren was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by AutoSens during the latest AutoSense-Detroit. In a sparkling virtual ceremony, Norman remarked:
“Thank you all for this unexpected honor, which I appreciate all the more because everyone on the short list is outstandingly qualified. My work in imaging is actually my second career, which I started it when I was sixty. It’s been a real honor to help the industry improve the quality of a wide variety of cameras and a pleasure to get to know some amazing people along the way.”
Speed up your testing with real-time focusing in Imatest Master 2020.2.
Recent speed improvements allow for real-time focusing and allow users to analyze images from two types of sources:
- Direct image acquisition from a variety of devices, listed in detail in Supported image acquisition hardware for Imatest Master.
- Image files listed in Image file formats and acquisition devices,
Although the majority of images traditionally analyzed by Imatest have been from files (JPG, PNG, etc.), three modules, which can perform a majority of Imatest’s analyses, support direct data acquisition, and can be used for realtime analysis.
Imatest Version 2020.2 adds several new features to Imatest Master and Imatest IT, including Improvements in Calculation Speed, Uniformity Statistics based on EMVA 1288 Standards, Uniformity measurements from ISO 17957:2015, IT For Mac OS, and Tunable Checkerboard Detection. (more…)
Do you have questions about our upcoming 2020.2 release features, our test lab equipment, or image quality testing? Join our live, online Q&A session on Wednesday, October 28th, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm MST. Henry Koren, Director of Engineering, will lead the discussion. To participate, please register and submit questions in advance.
Webcams are an increasingly vital tool for working remotely and staying connected with friends and loved ones. As such, webcam sales have experienced significant growth. We all know good and bad quality images when we see them, but quantifying a camera’s performance is critical for making design choices, sourcing components, and performing quality control. Developing these devices presents challenges common to the development of consumer cameras. (more…)
We discuss several common image quality measurements that are often misinterpreted, so that bad images are falsely interpreted as good, and we describe how to obtain valid measurements.
Sharpness, which is measured by MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) curves, is frequently summarized by MTF50 (the spatial frequency where MTF falls to half its low frequency value).