Python vs OpencV?

What is difference between both? Can we use both in/with MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

They are apples and oranges. Python is a high-level programming language, whereas OpenCV is a library for computer vision.

Python is used to write code, implement algorithms, develop systems, etc. Anything that can be computed can be implemented in python. If you use a python interpreter without any libraries, then you will need to implement every code from scratch. So to avoid re-inventing the wheel, some smart people write a bunch of useful functions and publish them as libraries so that other people can directly use them.

One such library is openCV (although its core functions are implemented in C/C++, and the python library for opneCV provide an interface to those function). OpenCV provides a lot of useful functions that make it easy to do image processing and computer vision tasks. It provides functions to create and train computer vision models. There is a lot you can do with openCV: https://docs.opencv.org/master/examples.html

Now coming to question wherther they can be used with MATLAB? Yes.

Python with MATLAB: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab-engine-for-python.html and https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/getting-started-with-python.html

OpenCV and MATLAB: https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-opencv.html, https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47953-computer-vision-toolbox-opencv-interface.

Answer 2

[Divyanshu Shekhar]

Python is a programming language where as OpenCV is a open-source Package that helps us to make computer vision projects. OpenCV Package is originally written in C++ but very popular in python.

You can learn about OpenCV from Divyanshu Shekhar and python from Hack The Developer.