Reviewing and Preparing Observation Scan Images

After the Images have been imported, it is sensible to review the Images before running Machine Vision on them. During this review process you can remove similar Images and convert 360° panorama Images into planar Images.

You can remove similar images in the Image Gallery.

Opening the Image Gallery

The Image Gallery can be activated from the Observation Scan Main Screen. There are two options:

Option 1: Click on the Tag name.

Option 2: Select multiple Tags and click the Image Gallery button.

Select multiple Tags and click the Image Gallery button.

Mark Images as Reviewed in Bulk

In some cases, it is may be convenient to mark all of the images under an Observation Scan Tag as Reviewed. To mark images as reviewed:

Select the desired Tags from the Observation Scan Grid List.
Click the Mark as Reviewed button in the Observation Scan List toolbar.

Click **Mark as Reviewed** button to review all images in selected tags as Reviewed.

Removing Similar Images

Although similar Images can be filtered out in the first phase of the Machine Vision run, you can also manually delete Images that are of no interest.

To delete Images:

Open the Image Gallery.
Select the unwanted Images.
Click the Delete button.

Graphical user interface Description automatically generated — Select the Images anc click the Delete button.

A confirmation dialog will appear.

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Click Yes.

The selected Images will be deleted.

Note: After the Machine Vision run you will need to come back to the Image Gallery to review the results and create the Observation-Items. This is explained in Reviewing Images and Creating Observations.

Converting 360° panorama Images into planar Images

Machine Vision works best on the regular planar Images. If you have panorama Images as a result of scanning, it is best to convert them into planar Images.

To convert panorama Images into planar Images:

In the Observation Scan Main Screen (grid list).
Select the needed Tags.
Click the Flatten Images button.

Take Note

It is assumed that all Images in the selected Tags are panorama Images. Flattening regular Image will result in distorted Image.

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You can also trigger the Image Flattening from the Image Gallery:

Flattening panorama Images from the Image Gallery.

When flattened, panorama Images will be removed from the list and only resulting Images will be shown.

Observation Scan Settings for image flattening

Image flattening results depends on the settings. The settings can be applied to the selected Folder / Tag, or to the Image itself. If settings are applied to the parent Folder / Tag, all the children (that do not have their own settings applied) will inherit the parent folder's settings.

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As shown below in the settings, the result of the Image flattening will be 14 Images per one panorama Image, according to the FOV (Field of View), Pitch, Yaw and the defined resolution.