Question

I have extracted SIFT features in (opencv open source) and they are extracted as keypoints. Now, I would like to convert them to Matrix (With their x,y coordinates) or save them in a text file…

Here, you can see a sample code for extracting the keypoints and now I would like to know how convert them to MAT or save them in txt, xml or yaml…

cv::SiftFeatureDetector detector;
std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> keypoints;
detector.detect(input, keypoints);

Answer 1

Convert to cv::Mat is as follows.

std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> keypoints;
std::vector<cv::Point2f> points;
std::vector<cv::KeyPoint>::iterator it;

for( it= keypoints.begin(); it!= keypoints.end();it++)
{
    points.push_back(it->pt);
}

cv::Mat pointmatrix(points);

Write to filestorage is

cv::FileStorage fs("test.yml", cv::FileStorage::WRITE);
cv::FileStorage fs2("test2.xml", cv::FileStorage::WRITE);

detector.write(fs);
detector.write(fs2);