To the contrary with c api where an output image had to be created by the developer an empty output mat can be supplied to each function.
Create cv mat c.
Creating a mat object explicitly.
Be aware that this only works for two dimensional matrices.
Do not explicitly create outputarray instances applies here too.
It can be used to store real or complex valued vectors and matrices grayscale or color images voxel volumes vector fields point clouds tensors histograms though very high dimensional histograms may be better stored in a sparsemat.
However for debugging purposes it s much more convenient to see the actual values.
The name starts with a lower or upper case character hence a value between a z or a z.
If it is not empty and has the correct size and type the method does nothing.
Mat l 3 arr cv 8uc 1 scalar all 0.
This method allocates data for a matrix if it is empty.
Possible parameter names for matrix cv mat.
Using cv mat create nrows ncols type method or the similar constructor cv mat mat nrows ncols type fill value constructor.
If the format depth or channel order is different use mat convertto and cv cvtcolor to convert it before saving.
We can use array to initialize the constructor.
We can create a matrix with more than two dimensions.
Each implementation calls mat create for a destination matrix.
The first character of the name can be followed by an infinite number of alpha numerical characters including characters like or.
The sample below shows how to create a bgra image how to set custom compression parameters and save it to a png file.
Just like with inputarray opencv users should not care about outputarray they just pass mat vector t etc.
If you want to make your function polymorphic i e.
The parameters which you add to the cv mat must have a name which fits to the following rules.
You can do this using the operator of mat.
Here are the some popular ones.
This type is very similar to inputarray except that it is used for input output and output function parameters.
The same limitation as for inputarray.
Complex floating point matrix etc.
In the load modify and save an image tutorial you have already learned how to write a matrix to an image file by using the cv imwrite function.
Type has the same meaning as in cvcreatemat function e g.
A new matrix of the specified size and specifed type will be allocated.
The class mat represents an n dimensional dense numerical single channel or multi channel array.
N dimensional dense array class.
There are many different ways to create cv mat object.