Accessing a matrix element in the “Mat” object (not the CvMat object) in OpenCV C++

Question

How to access elements by row, col in OpenCV 2.0\'s new \"Mat\" class? The documentation is linked below, but I have not been able to make any sense of it. http://opencv.wi

Answer 1

The ideas provided above are good. For fast access (in case you would like to make a real time application) you could try the following:

//suppose you read an image from a file that is gray scale
Mat image = imread("Your path", CV_8UC1);
//...do some processing
uint8_t *myData = image.data;
int width = image.cols;
int height = image.rows;
int _stride = image.step;//in case cols != strides
for(int i = 0; i < height; i++)
{
    for(int j = 0; j < width; j++)
    {
        uint8_t val = myData[ i * _stride + j];
        //do whatever you want with your value
    }
}

Pointer access is much faster than the Mat.at<> accessing. Hope it helps!