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Emgu CV is a cross platform .Net wrapper to the Intel OpenCV image-processing library. Allowing OpenCV functions to be called from .NET compatible languages such as C#, VB, VC++, IronPython etc. The wrapper can be compiled in Mono and run on Linux / Solaris / Mac OS X.

Latest News

• 2008-09-02 Emgu.CV-1.3.0.0 is available in sourceforge. visit this page for a list of improvements made in this version.

• 2008-05-24 Emgu.CV-1.2.2.0 is available in sourceforge. visit this page for a list of improvements made in this version.

• 2008-05-10 Introducing the Emgu CV Discussion Forum available at http://www.emgu.com/forum

Advantage of Emgu CV

Cross Platform

Unlike other wrappers such as OpenCVDotNet or SharperCV which are written in Managed C++, Emgu CV is written entirely in C#. The benefit is that it can be compiled on Mono and therefore is able to run on any platform Mono supports, including Linux / Solaris and Mac OS X. A lot more effort has been spend to have an C# implementation since the headers has to be ported, compares with managed C++ implementation where that header files can simply be included. But it is well worth it once I see Emgu CV running on my Fedora 9! Plus it always give you the comfort knowing that your code is cross-platform.

Other Advantages

• Image class with Generic Color and Depth
• Automatic garbage collection
• Generic operations on image pixels
• XML Serializable Image
• XML Documentation and intellisense support
• The choice to either use the Image class or directly invoke functions from OpenCV

Architecture Overview

Emgu CV has two layers of wrapper as shown below

• The basic layer (layer 1) contains function, structure and enumeration mapping which directly reflect those in OpenCV.
• The second layer (layer 2) contains class that mixed in advatange from the .Net world.

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