performance of matlab's image processing toolkit

Question

I've Heard that Matlab's image processing library is quite slow compared to Java's image processing library..

is that true ??

If thats the case, then will it be feasible to implement applications like CBIR Image search engine using Matlab ??

Answer 1

Generally, Matlab is really good for prototyping. You can implement algorithms quickly, and you can easily visualize the results. That is the advantage of using Matlab: fast development, not fast processing.

If you want to implement an actual computer vision or image processing application to be used by real people, I would suggest using C++, at least for the core image processing functions, because speed is a much bigger factor in this case. Specifically, openCV comes to mind.