Resizing the image in C# and sending it to OpenCV results in distorted image

Question

This is a follow-up question related to this one. Basically, I have a DLL which uses OpenCV to do image manipulation. There are two methods, one accepting an image-Pat

Answer 1

What I did was to use imdecode as EdChum suggested. This is how the functions in the DLL and C# look now:

#ifdef CDLL2_EXPORTS
#define CDLL2_API __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define CDLL2_API __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

#include "classification.h" 
extern "C"
{
    CDLL2_API void Classify_Image(unsigned char* img_pointer, long data_len, char* out_result, int* length_of_out_result, int top_n_results = 2);
//...
}

The actual method:

CDLL2_API void Classify_Image(unsigned char* img_pointer, long data_len,
                              char* out_result, int* length_of_out_result, int top_n_results)
{
    auto classifier = reinterpret_cast(GetHandle());
    vector inputImageBytes(img_pointer, img_pointer + data_len);
    cv::Mat img = imdecode(inputImageBytes, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR);

    cv::imshow("img just recieved from c#", img);

    std::vector result = classifier->Classify(img, top_n_results);
    //...
    *length_of_out_result = ss.str().length();
}

Here is the C# DllImport:

[DllImport(@"CDll2.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)]
static extern void Classify_Image(byte[] img, long data_len, byte[] out_result, out int out_result_length, int top_n_results = 2);

and this is the actual method sending the image back to the DLL:

private string Classify_UsingImage(Bitmap image, int top_n_results)
{
    byte[] result = new byte[200];
    int len;
    Bitmap img;

    if (chkResizeImageCShap.Checked)
        img = ResizeImage(image, int.Parse(txtWidth.Text), (int.Parse(txtHeight.Text)));
    else
        img = image;

    //this is for situations, where the image is not read from disk, and is stored in the memort(e.g. image comes from a camera or snapshot)
    ImageFormat fmt = new ImageFormat(image.RawFormat.Guid);
    var imageCodecInfo = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders().FirstOrDefault(codec => codec.FormatID == image.RawFormat.Guid);
    if (imageCodecInfo == null)
    {
        fmt = ImageFormat.Jpeg;
    }

    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        img.Save(ms, fmt);
        byte[] image_byte_array = ms.ToArray();
        Classify_Image(image_byte_array, ms.Length, result, out len, top_n_results);
    }

    return ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(result);
}

By doing this after resizing the image from C#, we don't face any distortions at all.

I couldn't, however, figure out why the resize on OpenCV part wouldn't work as expected!