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OpenCV and OpenGL

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

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updated 2014-10-19 23:04:55 -0600

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 gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2014-10-20 04:26:49 -0600 )edit
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+1 to the question. Hold same comment as StevenP for down voters.

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

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answered 2014-10-20 01:33:23 -0600

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

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

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