How Matlab coder convert the image to unsinged char

good day

I am working with matlab Coder which convert a image function to c++ code. the function looks something like this array=findsomething(I); where I is an image has been read with the function Imread. the result code in c++ code which has emxArray_uint8_T which looks like this struct emxArray_uint8_T { unsigned char *data; int *size; int allocatedSize; int numDimensions; boolean_T canFreeData; }; the data from the image should be a stream in unsigned char *data,i can read an image from OpenCV but i need to convert the image type from Mat to unsighed char, i have already read http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/matlab-data.html#f22019 but i dont know which comes first red blue or green,and if red should i start with coloms or rows? can someone help

Answer 1

[Ah]

so i found out how to fill this emxArray_uint8_T with unsinged char, in c++ there is the code

    emxArray_uint8_T *I; 
    emxInit_uint8_T(&I, 3);
    string imageName("F:/********amr.jpg");   
    Mat image;
    image = imread(imageName.c_str(), IMREAD_COLOR); // Read the file
      Vec3b intensity;
      int sizeimage, counter;
      int rows = image.rows;
      int cols = image.cols;
      sizeimage = rows*cols;
      I->size[0] = rows;
      I->size[1] = cols;
      I->size[2] = 3;

    emxEnsureCapacity((emxArray__common *)I, 0, (int)sizeof(unsigned char));
          counter = 0;
 for (int i = 0;i < cols;i++)
    {
      for (int j = 0;j < rows;j++)
      {
        intensity = image.at<Vec3b>(j, i);
        uchar blue = intensity.val[0];
        uchar green = intensity.val[1];
        uchar red = intensity.val[2];
        I->data[counter] = red;
        I->data[counter + sizeimage] = green;
        I->data[counter + 2* sizeimage] = blue;
        counter++;
      }
    }

now the data is transfered from the image into the emxArray_uint8_T which u can use in your c++ code i had the same results of my function in Matlab and my c++ program.

[Peyman Ghasemi]

Hi,

This is very well. I converted my Mat image to the emxArray but I couldn't run it in the main MATLAB generated function. Also I have no idea for the reverse conversion: emxArray to Mat image.

Do you have any library as the interface between the OpenCV and MATLAB Coder?

Regards;

Peyman

Answer 2

[Saipraveen]

Answering for other users, I have created a file exchange file that converts image to a c/c++ array file that could be used. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/72535-image-to-c-c-array-converter.