What is the difference between UMat and Mat in OpenCV?
I have been through the documentation and didn't get a clear detailed description about UMat; however I think it has something to relate with GPU and CPU. Please help me out. Thank you. Perhaps section 3 of this document will help: [link now broken] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/2f/19/inde_opencv_3.0_arch_guide.pdf Specifically, section 3.1: A unified abstraction cv::UMat that enables the same APIs to be implemented using CPU or OpenCL code, without a requirement to call OpenCL accelerated version explicitly. These functions use an OpenCL-enabled GPU if exists in the