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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.

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 benifit is that it can be compiled on Mono and therefore is able to run on any platform Mono supports, be it Linux / Solaris or Mac OS X. I have spend a lot more effort to have an implementation in C# since the headers has to be ported, compares with managed C++ such that header files can simply be included. But it is well worth it once I see Emgu CV running on my Fedora 8! 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.

File:EmguCVArchitecture.gif

Latest News

• 2008-05-10 A Discussion Forum for Emgu CV is available here
• 2008-05-05 Emgu.CV-1.2.2.0 is available in SVN, changes in this version can be found here