I would like to put a UTF8 text using a specific font on my cv::Mat and I don't want to use OpenCV's GUI elements (windows). I compiled OpenCV 3.4.3 against Qt 5.11.1 and it works fine.
I understand that calling cv::addText function crashes duo to lack of GUI thread, in case no window is created by cv::namedWindow or cv::window. So I want to know if there is a way to somehow hide a previously created window, or even start GUI thread without actually having a window?