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OpenCV and OpenGL

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What is the difference between OpenCV and OpenGL? In which situation i have to go for OpenGL instead of OpenCV?

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As a remark to the downvoters, at least if you downvote put some effort in addressing why you did so ...

StevenPuttemans ( 2014-10-20 04:26:49 -0600 )edit

+1 to the question. Hold same comment as StevenP for down voters.

MohitSharma ( 2016-04-13 23:55:09 -0600 )edit

They are completely different things. You use OpenGL to create images of virtual scenes and OpenCV to process images.

To expand on this explanation

OpenCV is a computer vision framework, aka a library that allows you to perform computer vision and machine learning algorithms on your input data.
OpenGL is a way/technique of visualizing data on the screen. OpenCV can be build with OpenGL support enabling the OpenGL functionality inside OpenCV.

However you cannot compare both effectively since their goal is completely different.

StevenPuttemans ( 2014-10-20 04:21:16 -0600 )edit

Asked: 2014-10-19 23:04:00 -0600

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Last updated: Oct 20 '14