The simplest operations one can think of handle every pixel in isolation. For instance, linear contrast stretching applies the same gain and an offset everywhere, while thresholding turns background and foreground pixels to black and white.

When several source images are combined, the full range of arithmetic operators can be used to achieve effects such as shading correction, adaptive thresholding, temporal noise reduction, masking...

Filters are used to enhance specific image characteristics such as sharpness, smoothness or local contrast by combining gray-level values in a small sliding window around every pixel.

mvIMPACT Base supports a complete range of linear and non-linear neighborhood operators, including general convolutions and rank filters.

Further image transforms act on the shape of image features and help improve specific properties such as connectivity: erosion, dilation, opening, closing, thinning, thickening.

Other modifications are related to the segmentation of images to form regions: labeling, watershed, hole filling...

All common file formats as well as user-defined ones are supported.

Other data structures such as sub-images, profiles, lookup tables or histograms are also managed by mvIMPACT Base and have corresponding display utilities. Multithread-safe operation with appropriate memory access arbitration is provided, as well as event-driven interaction with the GUI.

All acquisition modes supported by the hardware such as live sequence recording, frame integration, on-the-fly shading correction, background subtraction, and the like can be driven by the software.

Proprietary image processing functions integrate seamlessly with mvIMPACT. Full access to the image buffers are provided through appropriate pointers.

In addition, proprietary mvIMPACT extension modules can be produced. An example project for this is provided.

All mvIMPACT functions generate status messages, which can be traced, filtered or stored in a file. A specific tracing utility is provided.