OpenCV Alternatives

OpenCV is described as '(Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions for real time computer vision' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to OpenCV for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Android apps. The best OpenCV alternative is SimpleCV, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OpenCV are Meta SAM 2, Accord.NET Framework, FastCV Computer Vision and BoofCV.

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  1. SimpleCV icon
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    SimpleCV is a Python interface to several powerful open source computer vision libraries in a single convenient package. With it, your software can have access to high level algorithms in feature detection, filtering, and pattern recognition in a unified framework.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • SimpleCV is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to OpenCV.

    • SimpleCV is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to OpenCV.

    • SimpleCV is Free and Open SourceOpenCV is also Free and Open Source
  2. Meta SAM 2 icon
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    SAM 2 is the first unified model for segmenting objects across images and videos. You can use a click, box, or mask as the input to select an object on any image or frame of video.

    17 Meta SAM 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
    • Meta SAM 2 is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to OpenCV.

    • Meta SAM 2 is Free and Open SourceOpenCV is also Free and Open Source
  3. The Accord.NET Framework is a .NET machine learning framework combined with audio and image processing libraries completely written in C#. It is a complete framework for building production-grade computer vision, computer audition, signal processing and statistics applications...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. FastCV will enable you to add new user experiences into your camera-based apps like:

    gesture recognition face detection, tracking, and recognition text recognition and tracking augmented reality

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
     
    • FastCV Computer Vision is the most popular Android alternative to OpenCV.

    • FastCV Computer Vision is Free and ProprietaryOpenCV is Free and Open Source
  5. BoofCV icon
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    BoofCV is an open source library written from scratch for real-time computer vision. Its functionality includes, low-level image processing, camera calibration, feature detection/tracking, structure-from-motion, fiducial detection, and recognition.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
     
  6. DINOv2 icon
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    A family of foundation models producing universal features suitable for image-level visual tasks (image classification, instance retrieval, video understanding) as well as pixel-level visual tasks (depth estimation, semantic segmentation).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    A software library for computation of the discrete wavelet transform that is primarily implemented in C/C++ language and as well in other languages intended for target platforms (assembly languages). The library is designed for PC platform (basic and optimized implementation)...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Let your web site prepare images automagically for you. Save images once and embrace the responsive web.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • ASP.NET
     
    • ImageUltimate is the most popular commercial alternative to OpenCV.

    • ImageUltimate is Paid and ProprietaryOpenCV is Free and Open Source
  9. C# Wrapper for the Leptonica Library Version 1.77.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. LandingLens Python SDK is a computer vision toolkit that makes it easy to acquire and process images, with seamless integration with LandingLens platform, a cloud no-code service for training and deploying computer vision AI models.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
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