opencv MAT

• ndims – Array dimensionality.
• rows – Number of rows in a 2D array.
• cols – Number of columns in a 2D array.
• roi – Region of interest.
• size – 2D array size: Size(cols, rows) . In the Size() constructor, the number of rows and the number of columns go in the reverse order.
• sizes – Array of integers specifying an n-dimensional array shape.
• type – Array type. Use CV_8UC1, ..., CV_64FC4 to create 1-4 channel matrices, or CV_8UC(n), ...,CV_64FC(n) to create multi-channel (up to CV_CN_MAX channels) matrices.
• s – An optional value to initialize each matrix element with. To set all the matrix elements to the particular value after the construction, use the assignment operator Mat::operator=(constScalar& value) .
• data – Pointer to the user data. Matrix constructors that take data and step parameters do not allocate matrix data. Instead, they just initialize the matrix header that points to the specified data, which means that no data is copied. This operation is very efficient and can be used to process external data using OpenCV functions. The external data is not automatically deallocated, so you should take care of it.
• step – Number of bytes each matrix row occupies. The value should include the padding bytes at the end of each row, if any. If the parameter is missing (set to AUTO_STEP ), no padding is assumed and the actual step is calculated as cols*elemSize() . See Mat::elemSize() .
• steps – Array of ndims-1 steps in case of a multi-dimensional array (the last step is always set to the element size). If not specified, the matrix is assumed to be continuous.
• m – Array that (as a whole or partly) is assigned to the constructed matrix. No data is copied by these constructors. Instead, the header pointing to m data or its sub-array is constructed and associated with it. The reference counter, if any, is incremented. So, when you modify the matrix formed using such a constructor, you also modify the corresponding elements of m . If you want to have an independent copy of the sub-array, use Mat::clone() .
• img – Pointer to the old-style IplImage image structure. By default, the data is shared between the original image and the new matrix. But when copyData is set, the full copy of the image data is created.
• vec – STL vector whose elements form the matrix. The matrix has a single column and the number of rows equal to the number of vector elements. Type of the matrix matches the type of vector elements. The constructor can handle arbitrary types, for which there is a properly declaredDataType . This means that the vector elements must be primitive numbers or uni-type numerical tuples of numbers. Mixed-type structures are not supported. The corresponding constructor is explicit. Since STL vectors are not automatically converted to Mat instances, you should writeMat(vec) explicitly. Unless you copy the data into the matrix ( copyData=true ), no new elements will be added to the vector because it can potentially yield vector data reallocation, and, thus, the matrix data pointer will be invalid.
• copyData – Flag to specify whether the underlying data of the STL vector or the old-style CvMator IplImage should be copied to (true) or shared with (false) the newly constructed matrix. When the data is copied, the allocated buffer is managed using Mat reference counting mechanism. While the data is shared, the reference counter is NULL, and you should not deallocate the data until the matrix is not destructed.
• rowRange – Range of the m rows to take. As usual, the range start is inclusive and the range end is exclusive. Use Range::all() to take all the rows.
• colRange – Range of the m columns to take. Use Range::all() to take all the columns.
• ranges – Array of selected ranges of m along each dimensionality.

上面是一些直接从opencv3.0 documents上直接复制来的，其中有些概念比较好理解，但是比如step、step1的概念不好理解，下面是两片博客的地址，先看第一个，后看第二个：

http://m.blog.csdn.net/blog/jdpshq/8575098

http://www.cnblogs.com/wangguchangqing/p/4016179.html

感谢上面两位作者的贡献。