Question

I want to send a Matrix to Matlab using “engine.h” in c++ code. The fact is that I have the data inside a cv::Mat, and I need to sent a mxArray. I tried to use this expression but it doesn´t work:

cv::Mat _priorP;
_priorP = Mat::eye(13, 13, CV_32FC1);
mxArray *mat;
mat = mxCreateDoubleMatrix(13, 13, mxREAL);

memcpy(mxGetPr(mat),_priorP.data, 13*13*sizeof(double));

Anybody knows the correct way to do the conversion? Any help would be apreciated. Thanks.

EDIT

I found this way:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8848711/744859

Answer 1

This thread shows how to convert a CvMat to mxArray. Even though it’s not exactly the conversion code you are looking for, it’s pretty close.

This is a simple conversion and you should be able to adjust the code to work with cv::Mat instead of CvMat. If you can’t, a quick hack is to convert your cv::Mat data to CvMat and then use the code below as is (taken from the link I suggested):

mxArray* CvMat_to_new_mxArr (const CvMat* mat)
{
  const int TYPE = cvGetElemType (mat);

  // 2-d image
  if (CV_64FC1 == TYPE) {
    return helper_2dcvmat_to_mat<CV_64FC1> (mat);
  }
  else if (CV_32FC1 == TYPE) {
    return helper_2dcvmat_to_mat<CV_32FC1> (mat);
  }
  else if (CV_32SC1 == TYPE) {
    return helper_2dcvmat_to_mat<CV_32SC1> (mat);
  }
  else if (CV_16SC1 == TYPE) {
    return helper_2dcvmat_to_mat<CV_16SC1> (mat);
  }
  else if (CV_16UC1 == TYPE) {
    return helper_2dcvmat_to_mat<CV_16UC1> (mat);
  }
  else if (CV_8UC1 == TYPE) {
    return helper_2dcvmat_to_mat<CV_8UC1> (mat);
  }
  else if (CV_8SC1 == TYPE) {
    return helper_2dcvmat_to_mat<CV_8SC1> (mat);
  }

  //Multi-dimensional arrays not supported, yet.
  /*
  // 3-d image
  else if (CV_64FC3 == TYPE) {
    return helper_rgbimage_to_mat<IPL_DEPTH_64F> (img);
  }
  else if (CV_32FC3 == TYPE) {
    return helper_rgbimage_to_mat<IPL_DEPTH_32F> (img);
  }
  else if (CV_8UC3 == TYPE) {
    return helper_rgbimage_to_mat<IPL_DEPTH_8U> (img);
  }
  */

  // unsupported conversion, return null mxArray
  return mxCreateDoubleMatrix(0,0,mxREAL);    
}


template<int TYPE>
mxArray* helper_2dcvmat_to_mat (const CvMat* mat)
{
  void* pBeg;
  int pitch;
  cvGetRawData(mat, (uchar**)&pBeg,&pitch);

  CvSize size = cvGetSize (mat);
  const mxClassID cid = cvm_traits<TYPE>::CID;
  mxArray* pArrOut =
  mxCreateNumericMatrix(size.height,size.width,cid,mxREAL);
  void* pBegOut = mxGetData(pArrOut);

  typedef mc_traits<cid>::CT T;
  pix_iterator_2d<T,eRowWise> it_src1(static_cast<T*>(pBeg),
  size.width,size.height,pitch);
  pix_iterator_2d<T,eRowWise> it_src2(static_cast<T*>(pBeg),
  size.width,size.height,pitch);
  it_src2.end ();
  pix_iterator_2d<T,eColWise> it_dest(static_cast<T*>(pBegOut),
  size.width,size.height);

  std::copy (it_src1,it_src2,it_dest);

  return pArrOut;
}