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ImSym - Imaging System Simulator
The faster, more accurate path to imaging designs
Enhance Your Optical System Development with ImSym
In traditional camera and other imaging systems development, you must rely on physical prototypes to assess image quality. This approach often brings complexity and inefficiency, resulting in longer manufacturing cycles, lower yields, and higher expenses.
Overcome these challenges with the ImSym - Imaging System Simulator. ImSym provides an end-to-end model of your imaging system before it goes to manufacturing. The model includes lenses, sensors, and image and signal processors (ISPs), allowing you to visualize images with precise, quantitative data. These capabilities streamline the development process, empowering you to deliver your next imaging product to market faster.
- Accelerate design cycles by up to 60x.
- Deliver accurate results powered by industry-proven CODE V and LightTools.
- Provide an exceptional user experience through an intuitive, integrated workflow.
- Improve collaboration for design teams with a centralized platform and cohesive process.
- Reduce development time and costs by shifting most of the product development from hardware to software design.
Bring Your Imaging System to Market Faster
Validate imaging systems before manufacturing and during assembly with ImSym. By providing a cohesive end-to-end simulation platform, ImSym makes it possible to reduce your design-to-market time. It also supports workflows tailored to your unique requirements and collaboration style. With ImSym, you can communicate seamlessly and assess all system components within one tool. Explore ImSym's advantages in this video.
Key Features of ImSym
User-friendly interface
Experience an intuitive, user-friendly interface that guides you through the design and analysis process.
Comprehensive sensor model
Model detector effects with a sensor that includes dimensions, pixel characteristics, and a sophisticated noise modeling process.
Stray light scanner tool
Simulate scene stray light and additive stray light sources. ImSym helps you understand the impact of unwanted light in your system.
Component impact analysis
Identify the impact of different system components on image performance — all in one cohesive platform.
Python support
Automate ImSym processes and customize ISP capabilities with Python programming language interface support.
Expanded Tools for Realistic, End‑to‑End Imaging Simulation
ImSym 2026 introduces new capabilities that enhance spectral modeling, detector reuse, standalone lens‑performance workflows, and asymmetric optical system simulation.
- User‑defined scene and calibration spectra
- Save and restore detector models
- Sample detector and spectrum libraries
- Lens Performance Data file support
- Expanded asymmetric system simulation
- New example models
Optimizing Imaging System Performance: Balancing Hardware & Software with ImSym
See how ImSym enables system level virtual prototyping by simulating optics, sensors, ISP processing, and stray light, with an example focused on distortion modeling and extending the approach to other imaging applications.
Discovery Training
Learn more about ImSym in this live session:
- Understand what ImSym is and the imaging challenges it addresses
- Identify key components of the imaging system pipeline
- Gain a high-level view of the ImSym interface and workflow
- Understand the fundamentals of end-to-end image simulation
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ImSym is a virtual prototyping platform for imaging systems, encompassing lenses, sensors, and image signal processors (ISPs). By integrating components of the imaging chain into a comprehensive end-to-end simulation platform, ImSym enables tailored optimizations of any imaging system, facilitates team collaboration, and dramatically reduces the risks of issues in later development stages.
ImSym supports a wide range of imaging applications, such as:
- Mobile cameras
- Handheld cameras
- Medical imaging
- Automotive advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) cameras
- Aerospace imaging systems
- Defense imaging systems
- AR/VR systems
- Lithography systems
- Machine vision and surveillance cameras
ImSym integrates multiple features to simulate an imaging system object using an input graphics file. ImSym’s accuracy is powered by CODE V and LightTools, trusted imaging and illumination optics design software.