Serializing OpenCV Mat_

Question

I\'m working on a robotics research project where I need to serialize 2D matrices of 3D points: basically each pixel is a 3-vector of floats. These pixels are saved in an Op

Answer 1

The earlier answers are good, but they won't work for non-continuous matrices which arise when you want to serialize regions of interest (among other things). Also, it is unnecessary to serialize elemSize() because this is derived from the type value.

Here's some code that will work regardless of continuity (with includes/namespace)

#pragma once

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

namespace boost {
namespace serialization {

template
void serialize(Archive &ar, cv::Mat& mat, const unsigned int)
{
    int cols, rows, type;
    bool continuous;

    if (Archive::is_saving::value) {
        cols = mat.cols; rows = mat.rows; type = mat.type();
        continuous = mat.isContinuous();
    }

    ar & cols & rows & type & continuous;

    if (Archive::is_loading::value)
        mat.create(rows, cols, type);

    if (continuous) {
        const unsigned int data_size = rows * cols * mat.elemSize();
        ar & boost::serialization::make_array(mat.ptr(), data_size);
    } else {
        const unsigned int row_size = cols*mat.elemSize();
        for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++) {
            ar & boost::serialization::make_array(mat.ptr(i), row_size);
        }
    }

}

} // namespace serialization
} // namespace boost