is resize a cpu intensive operation

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Thanks! Sorry for being obtuse - but how would i do this again? ( i believe it was something like fubar=dst(Mat, size(fubar) ?

Also, i think clone() is in that same region? Is there a way to get a single frame/screenshot from a Mat that contains a video/webcam stream? I don't really need the whole video. Currently i'm keeping a list of snapshots of user history that were recognised, but they are all moving as a copy of the video in stamp format. I just need a screenshot. I can't do cap << frame as that doesn't work on a regular Mat.

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Um? I don't entirely understand, but I think this is what you mean:

• You are trying to save single frames from a video stream, but they keep changing.
• You are assigning these variables by doing screenshot = frame;
• You want to keep a copy of the frame as is.

To do that, you use the .clone() function as follows. Clone is very low cost in time. A single copy is as cheap as it gets.

screenshot = frame.clone();

With that, it makes a copy and screenshot will not change unless you do something to it. If you just use the = assignment, Mat makes a shallow copy, and any changes to one changes the other. Clone makes a deep copy, and changes to one do not affect the other.

Hey Tetragramm, yes that's what i meant with clone(). I use that method now, i was just worried it might be cpu intensive and maybe there was an easier way. So i'm doing it the right way.

As for my the first part of my question, is there a way to resize a Mat, and then create a new Mat with the size of that other resized Mat (without actually calling resize again). I thought there was something like Mat fubar=(Mat bla.size(), ... )

Just trying to minimize amount of resize calls.

Thanks again

You need to take a look at the documentation. HERE is the Mat class, and as you can see, it has several constructors that let you specify size.