Matrox Imaging has announced the release of MIL 9.0. This is the latest version of the Matrox Imaging Library, the field-proven application development toolkit for image analysis, machine vision, image processing and medical imaging (Distribution Rauscher).

MIL 9.0 can take advantage of today's extremely high-performance graphics processor units (GPUs) and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. This means, for example, that a MIL application can be distributed across several computers over a network, be controlled remotely or in a master-slave configuration. To help reduce the load on the host CPU, MIL 9.0 can now offload image processing functions (primitives such as arithmetic, geometric transforms, filters, and morphology), to a GPU. Finally, MIL 9.0 includes support for Windows® Vista® and 64-bit operating systems.

As an add-on, MIL 9.0's Processing Pack 1 (PP1) features multi-core and multi-CPU speed optimizations, a color analysis tool, a 3D reconstruction tool and verification of 1D/2D codes using ISO/IEC standards.