Question

I have searched internet and stackoverflow thoroughly, but I haven’t found answer to my question:

How can I get/set (both) RGB value of certain (given by x,y coordinates) pixel in OpenCV? What’s important-I’m writing in C++, the image is stored in cv::Mat variable. I know there is an IplImage() operator, but IplImage is not very comfortable in use-as far as I know it comes from C API.

Yes, I’m aware that there was already this Pixel access in OpenCV 2.2 thread, but it was only about black and white bitmaps.

EDIT:

Thank you very much for all your answers. I see there are many ways to get/set RGB value of pixel. I got one more idea from my close friend-thanks Benny! It’s very simple and effective. I think it’s a matter of taste which one you choose.

Mat image;

(…)

Point3_<uchar>* p = image.ptr<Point3_<uchar> >(y,x);

And then you can read/write RGB values with:

p->x //B
p->y //G
p->z //R

Answer 1

Try the following:

cv::Mat image = ...do some stuff...;

image.at<cv::Vec3b>(y,x); gives you the RGB (it might be ordered as BGR) vector of type cv::Vec3b

image.at<cv::Vec3b>(y,x)[0] = newval[0];
image.at<cv::Vec3b>(y,x)[1] = newval[1];
image.at<cv::Vec3b>(y,x)[2] = newval[2];