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Emgu CV is a cross platform .Net wrapper to the OpenCV image processing library. Allowing OpenCV functions to be called from .NET compatible languages. The wrapper can be compiled by Visual Studio and Unity, it can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android.

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Platform Features

Windows

Name Emgu CV (Open Source) Emgu CV for Windows (Commercial Optimized) Emgu CV for Unity
Development tools Visual Studio 2019 and up Visual Studio 2019 and up Visual Studio 2019 and up Unity 3D 2022.3 and up
Platform Windows Windows UWP / Windows 8.1 Store app Windows Desktop Standalone
Supported CPU Architecture i386, x86_64, arm64 i386, x86_64, arm64 i386, x86_64 i386 (Editor & Standalone), x64 (Standalone)
CUDA GPU Processing x86_64 x86_64 X X
OpenCL (GPU&CPU) X
Tesseract OCR
code dispatch X X X
Exception Handling
Debugger Visualizer X X
Emgu.CV.UI X X
License GPL Commercial License Commercial License
  • Windows UWP version is included in the Windows Commercial release
  • Windows Phone is no longer supported

Mobile Devices

Name Emgu CV for iOS Emgu CV for Android Emgu CV for UWP Emgu CV for Unity
Requirement Visual Studio Code for Mac / build from commandline Visual Studio 2022 for Windows Visual Studio 2019+ Unity 3D 2022.3
Platform iOS (iPhone, IPad) Android UWP iOS (iPhone, IPad, IPod Touch) Android Windows UWP
Supported Device armv7, armv7a, arm64 armeabi, armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86, x86_64 arm, x86, x64 armv7, armv7a, arm64 armeabi-v7a, x86 arm, x86, x86_64
Supported Simulator x86_64 (apple silicon simulator is not supported) armeabi, armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86, x86_64 x86 i386 armeabi-v7a, x86 x86, x86_64
CUDA GPU Processing X X X X X X
OpenCL 1.2 (GPU&CPU) X (on supported devices) X X (on supported devices) X
Tesseract OCR
Exception Handling
License Commercial License Commercial License Commercial License Commercial License

Mac OS, Linux, Unix

The commercial release include prebuild binary for Mac OS. For Linux and Unix platform, you need to compile the binary from source.

Name Emgu CV (Open Source) Emgu CV for OSX, Linux Unix(Commercial License) Emgu CV for Unity
Development Tools Visual Studio for Mac, JetBrains Rider Visual Studio for Mac, JetBrains Rider Unity 3D 2022.3
MacOS x86 & x64 (Editor & Standalone)
Linux, Unix X
CUDA GPU Processing X X X
OpenCL (GPU&CPU)
Tesseract OCR
Exception Handling
License GPL Commercial License Commercial License

Advantage of Emgu CV

Cross Platform

Emgu CV is written entirely in C#. It can be run on any platform .net supports, including iOS, Android, Mac OS, Linux and windows. A lot of efforts has been spent to have a pure C# implementation since the headers have to be ported, compared with managed C++ implementation where header files can simply be included. But it is well worth it if you see Emgu CV running on Fedora 10! Plus it always gives you the comfort knowing that your code is cross-platform.

Cross Language and comes with example code

Emgu CV can be used from several different languages, including C#, VB.NET, C++ and IronPython. On this wiki, we provide examples for all those languages, which are available from the Examples section on Tutorial page. Our Discussion Forum is also available if you have any questions related to your favourite programming language.

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