feature extraction and matching multiple images within a for loop
I am extracting features of multiple images using surf features. The problem is this that I want to save keypoints which I do not understant how to do it. The reason to save this keypoints to use it in matching process. Below I provide the code
#include < stdio.h >
#include < opencv2\opencv.hpp >
#include < opencv2\stitching\stitcher.hpp >
#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2/calib3d/calib3d.hpp>
#include <opencv2/features2d/features2d.hpp>
#include <opencv2/nonfree/nonfree.hpp>
#include <opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp>
#include <opencv2/legacy/legacy.hpp>
using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
/* @function main */
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
vector< Mat > vImg;
int minHessian = 400;
std::vector<KeyPoint> keypoints;
Mat img_keypoints;
vector< Mat > img_keypoints_save;
vImg.push_back( imread("E:/A wahab/Masters Work/Camera Array/sample images/stitching_img/S1.jpg") );
vImg.push_back( imread("E:/A wahab/Masters Work/Camera Array/sample images/stitching_img/S2.jpg") );
vImg.push_back( imread("E:/A wahab/Masters Work/Camera Array/sample images/stitching_img/S3.jpg") );
vImg.push_back( imread("E:/A wahab/Masters Work/Camera Array/sample images/stitching_img/S4.jpg") );
for (int i=0; i<4; i++)
{
if (vImg[i].empty()) //check whether the image is loaded or not
{
cout << "Error : Image cannot be loaded..!!" << endl;
system("pause"); //wait for a key press
return -1;
}
// step 1 : Extract features using surf features
SurfFeatureDetector detector( minHessian );
detector.detect( vImg[i], keypoints );
drawKeypoints(vImg[i], keypoints, img_keypoints, Scalar::all(-1), DrawMatchesFlags::DEFAULT );
img_keypoints_save.push_back(img_keypoints);
namedWindow("win%d" , CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE); //create a window with the name "MyWindow"
imshow("Keypoints", img_keypoints );
waitKey(1000);
}
To compute descriptors I need keypoints, thats why I want to save it. So please tell me how to solve this problem. I am really thankful to you