Differences between AForge and OpenCV

Question

I am just learning about computer vision and C#. It seems like two prominent image processing libraries are OpenCV and AForge. What are some of the differences of the two?

Answer 1

If you would like to improve your application with more and more advanced functions like you said, I'd go for OpenCV- however, a part of your success depends on the fact that the C# port is actively updated, which shouldn't be much of trouble considering the three ports. I think EmguCV seems to be one of the best right now in terms of updated, but when I looked at it, lacks documentation (but you could probably translate C++ code into C# with some C++ knowledge). AForge seems a lot easier for me and that's what I'm using right now. OpenCV also has support for haarcascade.xml files you can use that include face detection.

So for the final take: both will suit you well, OpenCV is more widely used/supported (though most user-base is C++), AForge is easier. It all comes down to what you want to do.