[Insight-users] ITK versus Opencv

[Isaiah Norton]

You may be interested in this presentation about interfacing opencv and itk:

http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/images/4/4a/ITKOpenCVBridgeTutorial.pdf

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Regarding OpenMP...
>
> At the latest ITKv4 developer meeting we agreed to replace the
> pthreads implementation in the current itkMultiThreader with an OpenMP
> implementation. This will mean that all threaded filters will benefit
> from OpenMP. We also agreed to allow developers to use OpenMP
> directives in ITK code.
>
> Assuming all goes well with this transition, then OpenMP will be in
> the ITKv4 release (Nov 2011). There will be a beta available in
> September 2011.
>
> Regarding the speed difference between ITK and Opencv, it would be
> nice to have a set of benchmarks that show the difference between the
> two toolkits.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:24 AM, hanifa mohamed
> <hanifa_email at yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >      I have been using Opencv for some time and am now studying on the
> > feasiblity of using ITK.
> > Here's the positives, which I appreciate from ITK.
> > 1) Kudos to generic programming ideology used in ITK.
> > 2) I also like its object factories and smart pointers, easies the burden
> > for the developer.
> > 3) The pipeline methodology of stringing together filters is also nice.
> > However, how about speed and performance? Since OpenCV runs on native C
> > code, is it in way better optimised and faster than ITK's template
> approach.
> > How about using OpenMP (or any parallel processing ) with ITK ? Not an
> > important consideration now, but I'd still like to know. OpenCV supports
> > OpenMP but how about ITK.
> > May I know the key differences and similarities between these 2 libraries
> > and when is one more preferred ?
> > IMO, Itk seems to triumph over Opencv. But Opencv is still going strong.
> Is
> > it more of legacy issue ?
> > I know my question is kinda biased but I do hope, i can get some honest
> > answers.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
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