Emergent Vision Technologies releases eSDK Pro software development kit

High-speed machine vision components provider Emergent Vision Technologies announced the release of eSDK Pro software development kit (SDK). The company described the eSDK Pro as an advanced SDK designed to help engineers design and deploy vision systems faster. 

Emergent Vision Technologies said that eSDK Pro provides turnkey vision systems development and deployment processes for OEM projects or sending imaging data into third-party software.

SDK simplifies imaging requirements 

The company said it built eSDK Pro from the ground up for modern multi-camera and multi-server environments. It added that eSDK Pro Vision SDK simplifies complex image acquisition, processing, transfer and storage tasks, resulting in faster development cycles, reduced integration overhead and higher performance in real-world applications such as sports broadcasting, volumetric capture, industrial inspection and scientific imaging.

In testing, Emergent Vision Technologies said that engineers using eSDK Pro Vision achieved up to 90% reductions in programming time. An engineer defines what each task does - recording, transformation, GPU transfer, output - and eSDK Pro handles scheduling, memory management and synchronization. The company said that this eliminates the bulk of programming performed within traditional vision SDKs.

“eSDK Pro Vision brings together everything we’ve learned from more than a decade of high-speed imaging innovation,” said John Ilett, president and founder of Emergent Vision Technologies. “Engineers can more easily design systems that fully use the bandwidth of today’s 10, 25, and 100GigE vision networks - without spending months writing low-level data handling code.

Formerly, the company said that engineers would spend significant time constructing basic logic to handle imaging streams coming from a GigE camera. Extending that logic to high-speed 10, 25 and 100GigE cameras and/or multiple cameras was difficult, resulting in dropped frames and unpredictable performance. 

eSDK Pro features

Emergent Vision Technologies highlighted the following features of eSDK Pro:

• Pipeline-driven architecture
  • eSDK Pro streamlines capture, processing and data transfer through a modular workflow. Users can write their own plug-ins or deploy pre-built ones.
• Move work between eSDK Pro and eCapture Pro software
  • Emergent’s flagship software products use the same backbone, so proof-of-concept work done in eCapture Pro ports into eSDK Pro for OEM and turnkey deployments involving third-party software integration.
• Multi-camera and multi-server scalability
  • eSDK Pro natively supports complex, synchronized vision systems that are compliant with GigE Vision 3.0, RDMA/RoCEv2 and GenICam.
• FlexProc and FlexTrans technologies
  • The new eSKD Pro includes accelerator frameworks that enable GPU, FPGA, and CPU acceleration with high-efficiency data movement.
• Cross-platform support
  • eSDK Pro is available for Windows and Linux (64-bit).

“We are also putting the increasing power of GPUs at their fingertips with robust integrations of NVIDIA’s GPU Direct and our own zero-copy technology,” Ilett said. “eSDK Pro is how engineers will bring together new camera sensors with increasing frame rates and resolutions, GPUs, and ultra-high speed networking equipment. This is going to result in a lot of robust, high-performance vision systems being deployed in multiple industries.”