How to fill Matrix with zeros in OpenCV?

Question

The code below causes an exception. Why?

#include 
#include 

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

void mai         


        

Answer 1

You can use this to fill zeroes in a Mat object already containing data:

image1 = Scalar::all(0);

For eg, if you use it this way:

Mat image,image1;
image = imread("IMG_20160107_185956.jpg", CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR);   // Read the file

if(! image.data )                              // Check for invalid input
{
    cout <<  "Could not open or find the image" << std::endl ;
    return -1;
}
cvtColor(image,image1,CV_BGR2GRAY);
image1 = Scalar::all(0);

It will work fine. But you cannot use this for uninitialised Mat. For that you can go for other options mentioned in above answers, like

Mat drawing = Mat::zeros( image.size(), CV_8UC3 );