How to write a Float Mat to a file in OpenCV

Question

I have a matrix

Mat B(480,640,CV_32FC1);

containing floating values..I want to write this matrix to a file which could be opened in notepad or M

Answer 1

I wrote this code:

#include "opencv2/opencv.hpp"

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

/*
Will save in the file:
cols\n
rows\n
elemSize\n
type\n
DATA
*/
void serializeMatbin(cv::Mat& mat, std::string filename){
    if (!mat.isContinuous()) {
        std::cout << "Not implemented yet" << std::endl;
        exit(1);
    }

    int elemSizeInBytes = (int)mat.elemSize();
    int elemType        = (int)mat.type();
    int dataSize        = (int)(mat.cols * mat.rows * mat.elemSize());

    FILE* FP = fopen(filename.c_str(), "wb");
    int sizeImg[4] = {mat.cols, mat.rows, elemSizeInBytes, elemType };
    fwrite(/* buffer */ sizeImg, /* how many elements */ 4, /* size of each element */ sizeof(int), /* file */ FP);
    fwrite(mat.data, mat.cols * mat.rows, elemSizeInBytes, FP);
    fclose(FP);
}

cv::Mat deserializeMatbin(std::string filename){
    FILE* fp = fopen(filename.c_str(), "rb");
    int header[4];
    fread(header, sizeof(int), 4, fp);
    int cols            = header[0]; 
    int rows            = header[1];
    int elemSizeInBytes = header[2];
    int elemType        = header[3];

    //std::cout << "rows="<