OpenCV 2.3: Convert Mat to RGBA pixel array

Question

I am attempting to use OpenCV to grab frames from a webcam and display them in a window using SFML.

VideoCapture returns frames in OpenCV\'s Mat format. To display t

Answer 1

I like the accepted answer better but this snippet helps you understand what's going on.

 for (int i=0; i<srcMat.rows; i++) {
            for (int j=0; j<srcMat.cols; j++) {
                int index = (i*srcMat.cols+j)*4;
                // copy while converting to RGBA order
                dstRBBA[index + 0] = srcMat[index + 2 ];
                dstRBBA[index + 1] = srcMat[index + 1 ];
                dstRBBA[index + 2] = srcMat[index + 0 ];
                dstRBBA[index + 3] = srcMat[index + 3 ];
            }
        }

Answer 2

For me worked following code:

VideoCapture capture(0);
Mat mat_frame;
capture >> mat_frame; // get a new frame from camera            

// Be sure that we are dealing with RGB colorspace...
Mat rgbFrame(width, height, CV_8UC3);
cvtColor(mat_frame, rgbFrame, CV_BGR2RGB);

// ...now let it convert it to RGBA
Mat newSrc = Mat(rgbFrame.rows, rgbFrame.cols, CV_8UC4);
int from_to[] = { 0,0, 1,1, 2,2, 3,3 };
mixChannels(&rgbFrame, 2, &newSrc, 1, from_to, 4);

The result (newSrc) is a premultiply image!

Answer 3

OpenCV can do all job for you:

VideoCapture cap(0);
Mat frame;
cap >> frame;

uchar* camData = new uchar[frame.total()*4];
Mat continuousRGBA(frame.size(), CV_8UC4, camData);
cv::cvtColor(frame, continuousRGBA, CV_BGR2RGBA, 4);
img.LoadFromPixels(frame.cols, frame.rows, camData);