What happens during imwrite if you specify a png image and that the passed mat has unset pixels? Are they treated as no opacity pixels? Because when I save I still get the gray value, so perhaps when I create a cv::Mat is it filled in gray by default?
Hi Pat!
When you create a cv::Mat, the required memory is reserved for it and AFAIK that memory is not initialized to any value unless you specify it, with this constructor for example:
Mat::Mat(Size size, int type, const Scalar& s)
The cv::Mat will be initialized with any value that you assign to s. Otherwise the content of the matrix is not guaranteed to have any specific value, so the unset pixels will probably contain garbage (the values left after that memory was last used).
I hope this helps.
I am glad I could help . If you have more questions this forum is the right place :D The only thing I would recommend you is to post them as "new questions" instead of comments or answers to this one, this way we can keep the forum well organized and the access to info would be much easier for the rest of users.
Asked: 2012-07-23 16:58:23 -0600
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