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 believe using cv::Mat is much more convenient. it is more generic. We can see IplImage being a subset of cv::Mat. The default datatype for IplImage is unsigned integer while that for cv::Mat is double. So it is much more easy to use Mat for any kind of mathematical operation.