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

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And in EMGU CV (C# wrapper for OpenCV), the corresponding data structure is `Image
`. – Sabuncu Feb 05 '15 at 11:19