libpng warning: Image width is zero in IHDR

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For some reason, the returned resource path has a '/' prefix (I think I read somewhere this is a known Java bug). Plus, the code cannot handle %20 (space) in the url.
I used this code to solve it:

try{
    String url1 = getClass().getResource("/resources/lena.png").getPath();
    if (url1.startsWith("/", 0))
       url1=url1.replaceFirst("/", "");
    url1=URLDecoder.decode(url1, "UTF-8"); //this will replace %20 with spaces
    Mat image = Highgui.imread(url1); 
}
catch ...

The second answer works perfect! But there are two things that I wanna say: 1. You have to update the eclipse running class by typing "run" when you are running sbt in the windows command prompt. You can check this by clicking the console eclipse line error. (For example, if it says error in line 26, you click this one and you will see if the line error corresponds to the actual error. And the most important 2. The string which worked for me was /lena.png instead of resources/lena.png. It is very important.

Hi,

I have the same problem. In my case i am running on Windows XP using Eclipse. From my investigation it looks like there is no data in the image matrix.

I tried the various solutions given but none seems to work in my case.

If anyone could enlighten me. Thank you in advance!

The problem is with URL paths and file paths. While on unix the URL path might work as an absolute file path on windows it is not the same thing. Probably the most reliable way to get the file path is to create a file object:

    final URI xmlUri = getClass().getResource("/lbpcascade_frontalface.xml").toURI();
    final CascadeClassifier faceDetector =
            new CascadeClassifier(new File(xmlUri).getAbsolutePath());
    final URI imageUri = getClass().getResource("/lena.png").toURI();
    final Mat image = Highgui.imread(new File(imageUri).getAbsolutePath());