[coding123]

Not that the C# isn't important here, but it's getting more and more important to be able to handle computer vision related tasks as part of a solution. Badge scanning, face scanning, orientation detection, etc... It's no longer feasible to write software that is a front end to a database (the twitters and the messaging apps of the world). We need to go beyond that and have something really capable. If Google Wallet now requests you to just place your credit card under the phone's camera - then that's the minimum expectation you're going to need going in front of VCs. They want that. Even if it's small - something way cool, cuts the competition out immediately. Cool sells.

[dralley]

Yeah, OpenCV is a C++ library with bindings for Python, Java, Rust, C#, etc. C# isn't really the important bit here.

OpenCV is a neat library though. I used it to do some quick and dirty measurements + sprite generation on a couple of hundred shark teeth for a group project in school. We made an educational virtual fossil dig website.

https://github.com/dralley/shark_tooth_data_collector