According to the help docs, there is a function min() that says it computes an output array that is the per element minimum of two input arrays or array and scalar, but when I use this in my code it's not recognized as valid OpenCV (no overload given). What is the function to do this minimum? I'm using 3.2.0 in Win7 on VSE2015 C/C++. Thanks.
Many C++ files either include or define a min and max function that often overlaps definition with the OpenCV one.
Try specifying cv::min(), even if you have "using namespace cv;" specified.
You can also use the arguments different ways that make it less likely to have problems.
Normally you would do
result = cv::min(a, b);
but you can also do
cv::min(a, b, result);
You'll note that this does not overlap with any macros that take (x,y).
yea, I tried both of those ways but it still doesn't like the min part.
Mat norm(data.size(), CV_32F);
(norm gets computed here)
float minnormval = some_threshold;
Mat result;
result = cv::min(norm, minnormval); // doesn't work
cv::min(norm, minnormval, result); // doesn't work
When I hover over the "min" word I get the message
#define min(a,b) (((a) < (b)) ? (a) : (b))
expected an identifier
Hmm. At the top of your file, before any includes, try putting #define NOMINMAX before all of the includes. If that doesn't work, put parentheses around the function name ex:
(cv::min)(norm, monnormval)
The (cv::min) solution worked. The #define may have also worked but elsewhere in my code I was using the standard C overloads for max() and min(), so those lines were now getting flagged.
Perhaps this is a bug in OpenCV, that it doesn't recognize array operators max() or min() unless specified as was done here? Or maybe it's because I'm using VSE?
Many thanks!
It's a macro with the name min. No idea where it's being defined, but that's the cause.
Putting the () around the method name does nothing, but it stops macros from parsing. Since it can't be a macro with the (), it then parses correctly as a function name.
ok. Just a note that (min) also works. And I see that the include file <windows.h>, which I am using in order to get my display size, is where min(a,b) and max(a,b) are defined as macros, so this is why I am having this problem. I found this link:
[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1632145/use-of-min-and-max-functions-in-c (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16...)]
Yep. That ought to have been fixed with the #define NOMINMAX. Not sure why.
Asked: 2017-02-13 17:09:19 -0600
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