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EC3 is a brand new bridging technology of near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and industrial image processing. Therefore chemical and physical material properties of objects get identified by means of their spectral information. By high sophisticated mathematical methods these informations will be transferred into chemical colors being streamed by the EC3 system. These EC3 systems can be integrated like a standard color line scan camera.
 
HELIOS EC3 systems are specially designed to combine the powerful capabilities of hyperspectral imaging with the advantages of image processing. HELIOS EC3 systems register the spectral information from the NIR (near infrared) region up to 2500 nm and represents chemical and physical material properties in the HSV (Hue Saturation Value) color space. This transformation model can be generated by various multivariate methods like PCA, PLS, PCR. Once the most suitable configuration is figured out, the system can be easily set up with that configuration and is then streaming Chemical Colors. This enables the user to integrate the HELIOS EC3 like a standard color line scan camera.

If one compares HELIOS EC3 with a heatsensing camera which is just sensing the physical property heat, HELIOS EC3 can detect many more physical and chemical properties like moisture, sugar content, starch content or a combination to measure the stage of maturity of fruits or vegetables.

HELIOS EC3 systems were specially designed for machine builders or system integrators that want to develop chemical imaging applications or want to integrate a Chemical Imaging system to an existing image processing platform.

 
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Spectroscopy:
+ Accurate solutions for complex problems (quantity, etc.)
- Expert knowledge needed, poor scan rates and (spatial) resolution.

Color Image Processing:
+ approved standards, many algorithms and tools available.
- Reduced information (only RGB) -> reduced possibilities
HELIOS EC3 (EVK Chemical Color Camera):
  • Combines advantages of spectroscopy
    and image processing
  • no expert knowledge needed.
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The idea of HELIOS EC3

Hyperspectral imaging is a technology which enables the user to solve very complex problems. But also the technology itself is quite complex which sometimes deter users to exert it. Cross-referenced, standard image processing is a very well introduced discipline in machine vision applications. HELIOS EC3 is combining the powerful capabilities of hyperspectral imaging with advantages of industrial image processing.

Fields of application:


  • Recycling industry
  • Food Processing industry
  • Mining industry
  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • Quantitative Analyses (in-line)
  • In-line quality control
  • Monitoring tasks
  • Sorting tasks
HELIOS EC3 Systems are also available as Starter Kit with lower scan rates for evaluation purposes.
HELIOS Starter Kit
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EC3 Config is an easy to use analyzing and configuration tool for processing hyperspectral imaging data and generating chemical color images for industrial high speed processing.

EC3 Config is the ideal software tool for exploring huge hyperspectral imaging data sets from EVK Chemical Imaging systems. This software was specially designed to analyze, classify and quantify the content of each image pixel by multivariate methods and to generate chemical color imaging configurations for EVK Chemical Color Camera systems.
Chemical Color Images
Chemical Color images are generated from a huge data set of hyperspectral images. These Chemical Color images have many advantages especially for inline processing. On the one hand the huge hyperspectral imaging data sets are reduced to a few bits that can easily be processed and on the other hand these Chemical Color images can easily be interpreted and thus easily processed by standard image processing methods. Such Chemical Color configurations can be saved onto an EVK Chemical Color system (HELIOS EC3) which automatically generates chemical color Information from the spectral information. These Chemical Colors will be streamed in real-time and can be processed with standard image processing methods. That offers endless industrial possibilities even if the user is not specialized in spectroscopy.
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Multivariate data analyzes
EC3 Config offers many multivariate data analyzing methods like PCA, PLS, PCR and many more. These methods provide highest flexibility for your analyses and classification purposes. If you still need further multi-variate models or you want to use your self designed models you can easily import them and apply them on a current project. All these methods are also implemented in the EVK Chemical Color Camera systems, consequently all configuration sets can be used for inline applications.
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Spectral Pre-Processing
Most needed pre-processing methods like smoothing, normalizing or 1st and 2nd derivative are  implemented in the EC3 Config tool for most efficient extraction of information.

Image Processing
Many methods for the visualization of image content are implemented. EC3 Config offers a wide range of visualizations for multivariate image analyzes as well as segmentation of image content like background segmentation or noise suppression.

Features:

  • Import of hyperspectral imaging data cubes.

  • Easy cropping of areas of special interest.

  • Multivariate data analyses [PCA (Nipals) / (SVD), PLS, and many more] of spectral image content.

  • Import of mathematical and statistical models designed by third party tools e.g. The Unscrambler®

  • Background segmentation; noise suppression; image segmentation…

  • Many spectral Pre-processing methods.

  • Direct and clear feedback on all actions.

  • Generating of chemical images to be processed by standard image processing methods.

  • Configuration of setup for inline sorting applications.
 
 
HELIOS EC3 - Application examples
 
Sorting example of dolomite & calcite.
 
Sorting example noodles & worms:
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