Award-Winning: Basler’s PGI Feature Set

July 20, 2016

Our PGI feature set was awarded by the 2016 Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards program. With over 40,000 subscribers "Vision Systems Design" is one of the leading magazines in the vision industry. This year's Honorees were chosen by a judging panel consisting of esteemed experts from system integrator and end-user companies. This judging panel honored PGI with a Silver-level award.

What makes PGI a winner?
The PGI feature set of Basler consists of a unique combination of 5x5 debayering, color-anti-aliasing, denoising and improved sharpness. PGI is an innovative, powerful in-camera image optimization that improves your images at the full speed of the camera.

Sören Böge, Product Manager at Basler and responsible for the PGI feature set, was particularly pleased about the Award: "Our goal at Basler is to provide our customers with innovative, value-added solutions. PGI offers added value and this Award confirms once again that, with our innovations, we give the right answers to our customers' requirements."

The Innovators Awards are judged based on the following criteria:

  • Originality
  • Innovation
  • Impact on Designers, Systems Integrators, End Users
  • Fulfilling a need in the market that hasn’t been addressed
  • Leveraging a novel technology
  • Increasing productivity

Alan Bergstein, publisher of Vision Systems Design said "This prestigious program allows Vision Systems Design to celebrate and recognize the most innovative products and services in the vision and image processing industry. Our 2016 Honorees are an outstanding example of companies who are making an impact in the industry."


The 2016 Visions Systems Design Innovators Awards Honorees are featured on the June Issue of Vision Systems Design magazine as well as on vision-systems.com.

The PGI feature set is available in dart and pulse color cameras and in all ace color camera models with sensors from the Sony Pregius series or PYTHON sensors from ON Semiconductor.

More information can also be found on our PGI website.

If you'd like to explore the functionality of the PGI feature set in greater detail, please read our White Paper.

About The Vision Systems Design 2016 Innovators Awards program

The Vision Systems Design 2016 Innovators Awards program reviews and recognized the most innovative products and services in the vision and image processing industry. Honorees were announced at The Vision Show 2016 held in Boston, MA, USA. Criteria used in the Innovators Awards ranking included: originality, innovation; impact on designers, systems integrators and end-users; fulfilling a need in the market that hasn’t been addressed, leveraging a novel technology, and increasing productivity.

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