OpenCV: IplImage versus Mat, which to use?

Question

I\'m pretty new to OpenCV (about 2 months now). I have the book Learning OpenCV by Bradski and Kaehler. My question is, if I want to do everything in a 2.0+ manner, when sho

Answer 1

I would highly recommend using Mat. I've been using it for a while, and it's great. The member functions and the matrix expressions make things much simpler than dealing with IplImage and as you said it's a catch-all data type.

Go for Mat!