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OpenCV vs TensorFlow: What are the differences?
Developers describe OpenCV as "Open Source Computer Vision Library". OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform. On the other hand, TensorFlow is detailed as "Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence". TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API.
OpenCV belongs to "Image Processing and Management" category of the tech stack, while TensorFlow can be primarily classified under "Machine Learning Tools".
"Computer Vision" is the top reason why over 19 developers like OpenCV, while over 16 developers mention "High Performance" as the leading cause for choosing TensorFlow.
OpenCV is an open source tool with 36.3K GitHub stars and 26.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenCV's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, TensorFlow has a broader approval, being mentioned in 200 company stacks & 135 developers stacks; compared to OpenCV, which is listed in 39 company stacks and 39 developer stacks.
Pros of OpenCV
- Computer Vision36
- Open Source17
- Imaging12
- Face Detection9
- Machine Learning9
- Great community6
- Realtime Image Processing4
- Image Augmentation2
- Helping almost CV problem2
Pros of TensorFlow
- High Performance32
- Connect Research and Production19
- Deep Flexibility16
- Auto-Differentiation12
- True Portability11
- Easy to use6
- High level abstraction5
- Powerful5
- Is orange2
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Cons of OpenCV
Cons of TensorFlow
- Hard9
- Hard to debug6
- Documentation not very helpful2
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