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Saint-Contest, France, October 14th, 2025 – Official release of version 4.7.0 of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite.

New features and improvements

• New macros
• Expanded image processing libraries
• Enhanced interfaces for industrial cameras
• Up-to-date educational content to make industrial vision system design more accessible

Aphelion Imaging Software Suite executable and libraries are compiled with the Visual Studio 2022 software and are based on .NET framework 4.7.2.

Version 4.7.0 is compatible with Windows 10 and 11.

Saint-Contest, France, June 15th, 2023 – Official release of version 4.6.1 of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite.

New features and improvements

• Object rotation from the graphical user interface
• Shortcut setting interface
• Grabcut function added
• New SDK application examples
• Minor improvements (documentation, bug correction)

Extensions

• Deep Learning Process extension: Compliant to TensorFlow 2.7, Cuda 11.8 and CuDNN 8.6. The Nvidia Maxwell to Hopper micro-architectures is supported
• Improved version of Annotate

Aphelion Imaging Software Suite executable and libraries are compiled with the Visual Studio 2017 software and are based on .NET framework 4.0.

Version 4.6.1 is compatible with Windows 10 and 11.

Saint-Contest, France, October 27th, 2022 – Official release of version 4.6.0 of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite.

This release includes main new features and enhancements. Find out now some of the new features of version 4.6.0:

• C# macro recorder/command history
• New functions such as Histogram of oriented gradients, Selective Search, Graph-based segmentation, Maximum filter and Minimum filter

New extensions

• 3D Processing extension: Added functions for point cloud handling and processing
• Improved version of Annotate
• Jpeg2000 reader (supported file formats: j2k, jp2, j2c, and jpt)

Drivers for new acquisition devices

• Allied Vision USB Alvium series
• IDS GV and U3 camera series (IDS Peak driver)
• Teledyne-Flir BlackFly S USB 3.0 and BlackFly S Gige camera series

Version 4.6.0 is compatible with Windows 10 and 11.

Saint-Contest, France, February 23rd, 2021 – Official release of version 4.5.0 of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite.

Below is a partial list of the new features:

• Ability to display a grey scale image as a surface map
• New gallery to quickly access miscellaneous objects like custom palettes, structuring elements, convolution kernels, classifiers, and Deep Learning Neural Networks
• New functions such as Optical Flow, Color Distance Gradient, Projection Shape Measurements, Export to STL, and many others

New extensions

• Deep Learning Processing extension
• Annotate

Drivers for new acquisition devices

• Teledyne-Dalsa Genie Nano 1Gige and Nano 5Gige camera series
• Teledyne-Lumenera LT USB3 camera series

Version 4.5.0 is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10.

Saint-Contest, France, October 5th, 2017 – Official release of version 4.4.0 of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite.

Important note: 4.3.x and older license codes are no longer valid with Aphelion 4.4.

• The software can now be installed without a license code
• The License code is requested on first software startup. The installation program handles command line arguments, allowing installations on a large set of computers
• A new tab in the image window Properties window allows to display the centers of closed shapes (rectangles, ellipses, polygons, etc.) and to choose the way these centers are displayed

Drivers for new equipment

• Allied Vision Technologies (AVT) cameras

Version 4.4.0 is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10.

Saint-Contest, France, September 15, 2015 – Official release of version 4.3.2 of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite. An update was released on March 21st, 2016.

• Support of TIFF images has been improved to support very large images (BigTIFF)
• Calibration bar display in the non destructive image overlay
• Brightness and Contrast controls in the main toolbar
• Full support of the User-Assisted Drawing Tool
• New AVI driver and user interface
• New reader for PNG image files
• Support of wavelet transforms for image subsampling
• Added the See Also in the online documentation
• Added input and output images to describe each function of Aphelion SDK
• Support of very large 2D images including I/O
• Updated user guide
• Support of version 6.1 of VTK in the 3D Image Display extension
• Autofocus added to the Multi-Field Capture extension

Drivers for new equipment

• Lumenera cameras
• Diagnostic Instruments Spot cameras
• Prior stage controller

Version 4.3.2 is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10.

Saint-Contest, France, December 30, 2014 – Official release of version 4.3.1 of Aphelion Dev.

New features

• New functions to quickly generate a binary or label image derived from an Aphelion ObjectSet by pulling a contextual menu
• Hyperlinks to contextual videos available in the Quick Help window of a task
• Synchronization between a grid and the three-dimensional rendering of 3D objects
• Message passing between the grid, the histogram, and the objects in the overlay
• Updated user guide

New extensions

• Improved graphical user interface of Classifier Builder
• Multi Field Capture, a new task to capture a series of images of a sample observed through an optical or electron microscope
• Support of large JPEG 2000 images in the Large Image extension

Version 4.3.1 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1.

Paris, France, September 16-18, 2014 – ADCIS announced version 4.3.0 during the ENOVA PARIS 2014.

Saint-Contest, France, October 22, 2014 – Official release of version 4.3.0 of Aphelion Dev.

New features

• Color segmentation based on a scatter plot
• 3D image generation from 2D sections with automatic image registration of adjacent sections
• New user-assisted tools to segment images
• Generation and visualization of large virtual images (Tiled images) with computation of subsample images
• New functions to quickly generate an Aphelion ObjectSet from that image
• Updated user guide

New extensions

• Comet Assay
• Image Quality
• Stereology Analyzer

Version 4.3.0 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1.

Saint-Contest, France, January 15, 2014 – Official release of version 4.2.1 of Aphelion Dev.

New features

• Interactive measurements on live images
• Display of measurement values in the image overlay
• Camera configuration to optimize image calibration
• IEEE1394 IIDC driver for Windows 64-bit operating system

Main changes between version 4.2.0 and version 4.2.1

• Support (read/write) of tiled TIFF images
• Multithreading support
• Function shortcuts displayed in menus
• STL file reader
• Updated version of the documentation (online help and printable version)
• Measurement QuickHelp in the Tools – Options – Measurements window
• Improved memory management for 3D image display
• Optimized picking capability in the 3D image view
• Improved interface to the IDS uEye driver

Version 4.2.1 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Saint-Contest, France, February 21, 2013 – Official release of version 4.2.0 of Aphelion Dev.

New extensions and new features

• Kriging Extension. Version 3.2 ported in the 4.2 environment with automatic determination of the model
• Import capability to generate 3D images from 2D sections
• New functions: Cross-correlate, Hough Lines Accumulator, Hough Lines, Hough Circle Spaces, Conjugate, and Color Gradient based on distance
• New measurements computed on lines
• New 3D measurements (centroid, and least square planes)
• New Random Forest classifier available in Classifier Builder in addition to existing Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network classifiers

Main changes between version 4.1.2 and version 4.2.0

• The 32 bit version of Aphelion can now allocate 3 GB of memory instead of 1.6 GB
• Updated documentation (online help and printable version)
• Addition of tooltips on functions
• Automatic selection of input images and objectsets
• Licensing management from the graphical user interface

Version 4.2.0 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Saint-Contest, France, November 2012 – Official release of version 4.1.2 of Aphelion Dev.

New extensions and updates

• Updated version of the IDS uEye driver supporting USB 3.0 cameras and faster display rate
• Updated version of Virtual Image Stitcher
• Virtual Image Capture for optical microscope

Main changes between version 4.1.1 and version 4.1.2

• New interface to manually define filters in the frequency space (ButterworthFilter, ExponentialFilter, GaussianFilter, RectangularFilter, TrapezoidalFilter)
• New BasicScript functions
• Support of the 3D Tiff format in 3DMovieGenerator
• Clip function to manually define a subvolume to display 3D images and objectsets
• Added link to the Tutorial videos in the Help menu
• Updated functions to communicate through a COM port (compliant to Windows 7)
• Improvement of the object selection speed
• Improvement of the ObjectSetView refreshment
• Improvement of the Multi Image View tab

Version 4.1.2 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Saint-Contest, France, April 2012 – Official release of version 4.1.1 of Aphelion Dev.

New extensions of Aphelion Dev

• Color Extension
• IDS Falcon frame grabber driver
• Märzhäuser Tango stage controller driver

Main changes between version 4.1.0 and version 4.1.1

• New interactive tools to segment color images (Color interval, Color distance, Region growing, Morphological partition)
• JPEG 2000 file format support
• TIFF file format: Can now be saved with or without LZW compression
• JPEG Quality option available to define the level of compression
• New image processing and objectset processing functions
• New measurements (median value for Objectsets, statistics under a mask for images)
• Copy/Paste to duplicate and/or convert shapes from Objectsets, ROIs, and Graphics
• Paste As Image to paste the content of the clipboard to a new image
• New BasicScript commands added
• Read/Write of ObjectSets as tks files in the x64 version of Aphelion Dev

Version 4.1.1 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Saint-Contest, France, October 2011 – Official release of version 4.1.0 of Aphelion Dev and SDK.

New extensions of Aphelion Dev

• Driver for IDS uEye camera series (USB and Ethernet models)

Main changes between version 4.0.10 and version 4.1.0

• Major re-implementation of the ObjectSet code with new capabilities (sub-attributes of complex attributes, image attributes)
• New Basic/Script functions (Chart and Overlay related functions, invocation of C#, VB.NET, and Python functions)
• Improvement of the display speed of large images
• New mathematical functions for images (Sin, Cos, Tan, ASin, ACos, ATan)
• New arithmetic functions for ObjectSets (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide)
• Improvement of the Graphical User Interface of Classifier Builder
• Images can be loaded/saved from/to multi-page TIFF files
• 3D images can be saved to multi-page PDF files (3D Image Processing Extension required)
• Support of cylindrical and ellipsoidal 3D shapes
• Support of the type Text for graphic objects

Version 4.1.0 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, April 2011 – Official release of version 4.0.10 of Aphelion Dev, SDK, and Lab.

New extensions of Aphelion Dev

• 3D Skeletonization Extension
• Image Annotator
• Virtual Image Stitcher

Main changes between version 4.0.9 and version 4.0.10

• Import of the administrator configuration defined in the previous 4.0.x version
• Added functions: WeightedDistance, SplitVectorAttribute, and synchronization between the ImageView and the grid of an objectset in the Developer task
• Added features in the 3D Image Display Extension: 3D chain support and object pickable
• Added functions supported by Basic/Script

Version 4.0.10 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, February 2011 – Official release of version 4.0.9 of Aphelion Dev, SDK, and Lab. On February 4, 2011, the 64 bit version of Basic/Script is added to version 4.0.9.

New extensions of Aphelion Dev

• Multifocus Extension with additional method to extract focused areas
• Image Registration
• Fuzzy Logic Toolkit (callable from ClassifierBuilder)

Main changes between version 4.0.8 and version 4.0.9

• Support of the subsampling factor to display 3D images using less memory
• ObjectSets logic functions
• Added measurements (projection, weighted centroids)
• Startup scripts (user-defined from the Tools>Options…>Startup menu)
• Plug-in selection from the Tools>Options…>Plugins menu
• Pop-up of the operator contextual help by clicking the F1 keybutton
• Availability of Basic/Script in the 64 bit version of Aphelion

Version 4.0.9 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, October 2010 – Availability of the update version 4.0.8 of Aphelion Dev and Lab.

New extensions of Aphelion Dev

• 3D Image Display Extension
• Classifier Builder
• Neural Network Toolkit

Main changes between version 4.0.7 and version 4.0.8

• Improved File menu
• Added function to import 3D data (available in the 3D Image Processing Extension)
• Added contextual menu in the Image Gallery
• Added additional settings (Tools>Options…>Advanced)

Version 4.0.8 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, August 2010 – Availability of the update version 4.0.7 of Aphelion Dev.

Main changes between version 4.0.6 and version 4.0.7

• Image View Synchronisation (same zooming and scrolling applied to a set of user-selected image views)
• Added wrapper to compile and debug C# and VB.NET scripts using development environment such as Visual Studio and SharpDevelop

Version 4.0.7 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, May 2010 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. announce the availability of Aphelion Dev version 4.0, the flagship product of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite.

This major release includes the following new features and improvements

• 64-bit support to address and process large images
• Context-based user interfaces facilitate productive use of the software
• Over than 50 measurements
• 4 available macro command languages (BasicScript, Python, Visual Basic, and Visual C#)
• Drawing tools enable feature measurements, even when segmentation is difficult
• Administrator and User modes foster Good Laboratory Practices
• Support of FireWire cameras and cameras compliant to the DirectShow interface

New extension of Aphelion Dev

• 3D Image Processing Extension

Version 4.0.6 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, December 2009 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. launch Aphelion SDK, the second product of the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite. Aphelion SDK, update version of Aphelion Core 3.2, is a set of image processing and image analysis functions provided as DLLs (native code) and .NET components (managed code).

Main improvements provided by Aphelion SDK compared to Aphelion Core

• 64-bit architecture support allowing to address large data processing
• .NET compliant to improve the efficiency to develop image-based applications
• Python support (IronPython)
• Drawing tools dedicated to measurement

Version 4.0.5 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, July 2009 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. launch Aphelion Lab, inaugurating the Aphelion Imaging Software Suite. Aphelion Lab introduces a new user interface with its context-based user interfaces that facilitate productive use of the software.

Context-based interfaces are available for the following tasks

• Definition of calibration profiles
• Image acquisition (FireWire cameras and DirectShow compatible cameras can be controlled from this interface)
• Object extraction
• Object edition
• Measurement computation on extracted objects and interactive measurement tools
• Report generation

Version 4.0.0 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Hérouville Saint-Clair, France, October 23th, 2008 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. announce the availability of version 3.2j of the Aphelion imaging software product.

This new version of Aphelion includes the following new features and improvements

• Support of the LZW non destrutive compression in TIFF file fromat
• IEEE1394 driver: Support of CMU 1394 Digital Camera Driver version 6.4.5 to interface both IEEE1394a and IEEE1394b camera devices
• DirectShow (WDM) driver
• Improvement of the interface to the Leica DFC cameras
• Improvement of the software protection to fully support Windows Vista

Caen, France, March 15th, 2006 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2i of the Aphelion imaging software product.

New modules and tools available of Aphelion 3.2i

• 3D Skeletonization module – An ActiveX component to generate a 3D skeleton of a tree-like 3D structure

Other new benefit provided by Aphelion 3.2i include

• Support of Leica DC and DFC digital cameras (option available in Rev.4 or later only)
• Support of Diagnostic Instruments Spot Insight digital cameras
• Support of IDS Falcon/Eagle frame grabber board

Caen, France, November 15th, 2004 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2h of the Aphelion imaging software product.

New modules and tools available of Aphelion 3.2h

• Microscopy Tool – Tool to control the automatic stage of an optical microscope from a stand-alone application
• Color Module – Module to extract image features using powerful color segmentation techniques

Other new benefits provided by Aphelion 3.2h include

• Support of Matrox Meteor II DIG
• Support of up to 2.4 Gigabytes of memory to let the user process larger 3D images in Aphelion
• A set of new operators and macro functions
• Operator to translate 3D objects in the 3D space
• New morphological operator to compute the extended regional maxima and minima

Caen, France, March 15th, 2004 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2g of the Aphelion imaging software product.

New modules and tools available of Aphelion 3.2g include

• Image Montage – Construct a mosaic image from sub-images
• Kriging Module – Filter noisy images
• Measurement Tool – Perform manual measurements in images
• Microscopy Tool – Control an automatic microscope from a stand-alone application
• Multifocus – Create a sharp image from multiple, unfocused images
• Color Module – Extract image features using powerful color segmentation techniques

Other new benefits provided by Aphelion 3.2g include

• Support of 16-bit color image acquisition
• Support of Euclidian distance and new Structuring Elements in the Morphology component
• Import of 3D images to be processed by the Aphelion 3D Image Processing Extension
• Computation of measurements based on texture analysis
• Support of the Aphelion ActiveX components in the Microsoft .NET environment
• Full compatibility with the latest versions of Windows
• Support of Matrox Meteor II CameraLink, Integral Technologies FlashBus DX, Coreco/Imaging PC2Vision, and FireWire IEEE1394 devices

Caen, France, October 30th, 2002 – ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announce the availability of version 3.2 of the Aphelion imaging software system, including two new optional modules for 3D Image Processing Extension and 3D Image Display Extension.

Most of Aphelion’s 2D image processing operators are supported in the 3D environment. Analysis of 3D images is supported by 3D measurements and 3D ObjectSet.

To display 3D images in user applications, Aphelion 3.2 provides an Image Display module available as an ActiveX component with the following capabilities

• Display of a 3D object as a set of slices, a composite object or an isosurface
• Control of the light and location of the camera
• Control of the display context (intensity, zoom, etc.)
• Cross sections in X, Y and Z directions
• Control of the LUT and the light intensity
• Mouse or keyboard control of the 6 degrees of freedom

Starting December 15th 2001, the most current version of Aphelion shipped to all new customers is version 3.1e.

The major improvements between this latest release, and version 3.0g are the following

• Aphelion Image Editor for interactive modification of Aphelion binary images and ObjectSets to improve segmentation results
• Enhanced ActiveX components for image capture, processing, and display
• More Visual Basic and Visual C++ examples to get users started even faster
• Advanced statistical information added to Aphelion ObjectSets
• New drivers implementing Windows Video Capture driver and enhanced TWAIN
• Frame grabber support for the latest boards from Integral Technologies and for the Leutron Picport Color
• Support of the Intel microscope QX3 through the Windows Video Capture driver
• Full compatibility with current versions of Windows (95/98/Me, NT/2000, and XP)
• Gamma correction of images
• Support of String attributes in the Object Sets

Last quarter of 1999, ADCIS and Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc., announced version 3.0 of Aphelion.

This version of Aphelion provides many important new features, including

• Availability of the Image Processing/Understanding/Display libraries as ActiveX components, callable from Visual Basic, Delphi, Java
• Additional segmentation tools such as Snakes and Color Thresholding techniques
• Texture Analysis tools to classify images
• Enhanced printing capabilities to generate high-quality reports
• Additional frame grabber support (Integral Technologies FlashBus, Matrox Meteor boards)
• Integration in the Windows 98/2000 environment
• Additional module for Comet Assay analysis