Abaco Systems Announces ImageFlex to Reduce Time and Cost of Developing Advanced Image Processing Applications
- Unique software toolset helps harness enormous capability of NVIDIA, AMD, Intel GPUs
- Strengthens Abaco range of mission ready systems, graphics computers
- Significantly reduces GPU solution development costs and timelines
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At Quad-A (The 2017 Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit – Nashville, TN) Abaco Systems today announced ImageFlex, an innovative software tool designed to allow engineers to harness the full potential of NVIDIA®, AMD and Intel® GPUs for application such as real-time image processing and image visualization.
ImageFlex greatly simplifies application creation by delivering a powerful set of high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) that exploit the full capabilities of the underlying GPUs while abstracting the complex details associated with each implementation. Applications built using the ImageFlex framework are easier to develop, test, debug and maintain, while speeding time to deployment by up to five times.
The ImageFlex framework API is a user-friendly interface that provides an abstraction layer on top of OpenGL™ to allow developers with no OpenGL experience to rapidly create high performance image processing and graphics applications. It includes optimized, high quality image fusion, stabilization and distortion correction algorithms, as well as a reference implementation of "Skybox", an application that performs real-time 360° spherical stitching. The API facilitates full 'spherical' situational awareness by facilitating the use of 'cube maps' displaying equi-rectangular images. The reference implementation, along with a configuration utility, can enable users to integrate their own camera array and processing very quickly.
Typical applications for ImageFlex include Degraded Visual Environment (DVE), 360° situational awareness, helmet mounted sight processing, and target identification and tracking.
ImageFlex complements Abaco's growing range of mission ready systems by enabling applications to be developed and deployed in even less time. It also complements Abaco's extensive range of graphics hardware solutions based on GPU technology from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, such as the FORCE2 and MAGIC1 rugged display computers as well as the soon-to-be-announced Project Elroy. Portable across operating systems, ImageFlex is potentially safety-certifiable.
"ImageFlex is yet another example of how Abaco is combining hardware and software to drive down our customers' development cost while accelerating their time to deployment," said Mrinal Iyengar, Vice President, Product Management at Abaco Systems. "Like our other powerful software tools in the AXIS suite, ImageFlex provides customers with added schedule and performance confidence. It also further demonstrates Abaco's commitment to delivering to our customers not just hardware, but a complete solution development framework."
ImageFlex features OpenCL ™and CUDA™ interoperability layers to simplify the problem of using the GPU for compute and display in harmony. It provides high quality implementations of GPU accelerated adaptive image fusion, lens distortion correction and image stabilization, all supported by a rich set of demos and reference examples oriented towards minimizing learning curves.
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With more than 30 years' experience, Abaco Systems is a global leader in open architecture computing and electronic systems for aerospace, defense and industrial applications. We deliver and support open modular solutions developed to upgrade and enhance the growing data, analytics, communications and sensor processing capabilities of our target applications. This, together with our 800+ professionals' unwavering focus on our customers' success, reduces program cost and risk, allows technology insertion with affordable readiness and enables platforms to successfully reach deployment sooner and with a lower total cost of ownership. With an active presence in hundreds of national asset platforms on land, sea and in the air, Abaco Systems is trusted where it matters most. www.abaco.com
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