OpenCV: Find all non-zero coordinates of a binary Mat image

Question

I\'m atttempting to find the non-zero (x,y) coordinates of a binary image.

I\'ve found a few references to the function countNonZero() which only count

Answer 1

There is the following source code that was supplied for OpenCV 2.4.3, which may be helpful:

#include 
#include 

/*! @brief find non-zero elements in a Matrix
 *
 * Given a binary matrix (likely returned from a comparison
 * operation such as compare(), >, ==, etc, return all of
 * the non-zero indices as a std::vector (x,y)
 *
 * This function aims to replicate the functionality of
 * Matlab's command of the same name
 *
 * Example:
 * \code
 *  // find the edges in an image
 *  Mat edges, thresh;
 *  sobel(image, edges);
 *  // theshold the edges
 *  thresh = edges > 0.1;
 *  // find the non-zero components so we can do something useful with them later
 *  vector idx;
 *  find(thresh, idx);
 * \endcode
 *
 * @param binary the input image (type CV_8UC1)
 * @param idx the output vector of Points corresponding to non-zero indices in the input
 */
void find(const cv::Mat& binary, std::vector &idx) {

    assert(binary.cols > 0 && binary.rows > 0 && binary.channels() == 1 && binary.depth() == CV_8U);
    const int M = binary.rows;
    const int N = binary.cols;
    for (int m = 0; m < M; ++m) {
        const char* bin_ptr = binary.ptr(m);
        for (int n = 0; n < N; ++n) {
            if (bin_ptr[n] > 0) idx.push_back(cv::Point(n,m));
        }
    }
}

Note - it looks like the function signature was wrong so I've changed the output vector to pass-by-reference.