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There is a IplImage and CvMat in OpenCV. What are the full names of them?

Freewind
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IPL in IplImage stands for Intel Processing Library, which is a remnant of when OpenCV was maintained by Intel.

CV in cvMat stands for Computer Vision Matrix, which is a data structure commonly used in graphics.

IplImage is an old structure, which I believe is internally converted into cv::Mat, or just Mat if you're in the cv namespace already. Likewise, cvMat is converted into Mat as well.

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/cpp/basic_structures.html?highlight=iplimage

Alex W
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