openCV: adding transparency to IplImage

Question

I have a 3-channel IplImage. I would like to create a 4-channel image and set the alpha channel for it to a value less than 1.0 to make it semi-transparent.

First I

Answer 1

//This code help to make a transparency image But it take src image as one //single color background see![Removing background and added black background color  ][1]
Mat dst;//(src.rows,src.cols,CV_8UC4);
Mat tmp,alpha;

cvtColor(src,tmp,CV_BGR2GRAY);
threshold(tmp,alpha,0,255,THRESH_BINARY);

Mat rgb[3];
split(src,rgb);

Mat rgba[4]={rgb[0],rgb[1],rgb[2],alpha};
merge(rgba,4,dst);
imwrite("dst.png",dst);
//dst is transparency image see here![output image as transparency image][2]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/9THqs.png
  [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/mpmgy.png