In those days the library was built around a c interface and to store the image in the memory they used a c structure called iplimagethis is the one youll see in most of the older tutorials and educational materials. Or only option is.
Opencv Cv Mat Class Reference
Check cv mat empty. Mat and rect and many other classes esp. If you are interest in using image class you can checkout. 2016 06 25 124548 0500 seen. Open cv 30 has been changed the c interface that use iplimage has been slowly phased out and the c interface that utilize mat is recommended in this release. Cvptr have an emtpy method. Opencv has been around since 2001.
I suggest you have to use another variable to do the clean loop good luck i hope this time you have it right. After creation i want to use pushback method to push rows in mat. The image class is still available in this release for backward compatibility reason. To check if its all zero simply newdata matzerosnewdatasize newdatatype. It passes the number of dimensions 1 to the mat constructor but the created array will be 2 dimensional with the number of columns set to 1. Other classes that load resources like videocapture or cascadeclassifier have an isopened method for that.
After checking the opencv source code you can actually do newdata 0 to check all element is equal to 0. How to create empty mat in opencv. Maybe you coul try with the full path for the haarcascadefrontalfacealtxml file endgroup alberto jan 31 19 at 1643 begingroup yes that worked thank you. So matdims is always 2 can also be 0 when the array is empty. In 30 release emgu cv has adapted to use the mat class as a result. 3676 times last updated.
In general with classes checking their mere existance is probably not helpful you want to know if they are in a valid state. Could you please check that. To check the mat if is empty use empty if newdata is a cvmat newdataempty returns true if theres no element in newdata. 1 the code will only compile in linux environment. While matsizeisempty mat is not empty because it capture frames from the camera unless you assign empty at the last line to repeat. Use a copy constructor or assignment operator where there can be an array or expression on the right side see below.
The following is the explanation to the c code to create a single colored blank image in c using the tool opencv.