Mat和IplImage和CvMat格式相互转换

学习笔记，资料来源：http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/core/interoperability_with_OpenCV_1/interoperability_with_OpenCV_1.html

Now for converting the Mat object you can use either the IplImage or the CvMat operators. While in the C interface you used to work with pointers here it’s no longer the case. In the C++ interface we have mostly Matobjects. These objects may be freely converted to both IplImage and CvMat with simple assignment. For example:

Mat I;
IplImage pI = I;
CvMat    mI = I;

Now if you want pointers the conversion gets just a little more complicated. The compilers can no longer automatically determinate what you want and as you need to explicitly specify your goal. This is to call the IplImage  and  CvMat  operators and then get their pointers. For getting the pointer we use the & sign:

Mat I;
IplImage* pI     = &I.operator IplImage();
CvMat* mI        =  &I.operator CvMat();

One of the biggest complaints of the C interface is that it leaves all the memory management to you. You need to figure out when it is safe to release your unused objects and make sure you do so before the program finishes or you could have troublesome memory leeks. To work around this issue in OpenCV there is introduced a sort of smart pointer. This will automatically release the object when it’s no longer in use. To use this declare the pointers as a specialization of the  Ptr  :

Ptr<IplImage> piI = &I.operator IplImage();

Converting from the C data structures to the  Mat  is done by passing these inside its constructor. For example:

Mat K(piL), L;
L = Mat(pI);