OpenCV: "draw" image on another image - c++

Question

I have 2 images with transparency. Images have the same format and size.
How can I copy pixels from second image to the first one by using C++ OpenCV?
The idea is to draw 2nd image on the 1st image.
Thanks

Answer 1

code from the link in comment above (modified for my case)
L. Scott Johnson thanks you again!
void alphaBlend(Mat& foreground, Mat& background, Mat& alpha, Mat& outImage)
{
// Find number of pixels.
int numberOfPixels = foreground.rows * foreground.cols * foreground.channels();
// Get floating point pointers to the data matrices
float* fptr = reinterpret_cast<float*>(foreground.data);
float* bptr = reinterpret_cast<float*>(background.data);
float* aptr = reinterpret_cast<float*>(alpha.data);
float* outImagePtr = reinterpret_cast<float*>(outImage.data);
// Loop over all pixesl ONCE
for (
int i = 0;
i < numberOfPixels;
i++, outImagePtr++, fptr++/*, aptr++*/, bptr++
)
{
if (i!= 0 && (i % 3) == 0)
aptr++;
*outImagePtr = (*fptr) * (*aptr) + (*bptr) * (1 - *aptr);
}
}
void Mix()
{
Mat layer = imread("images\\leyer.png", IMREAD_UNCHANGED);
Mat image = imread("images\\bg.jpg");
std::vector<cv::Mat> bgra_planes;
cv::split(layer, bgra_planes);
Mat alpha = bgra_planes[3];
bgra_planes.pop_back();
cv::merge(bgra_planes, layer);
alpha.convertTo(alpha, CV_32FC3, 1.0 / 255);
layer.convertTo(layer, CV_32FC3);
image.convertTo(image, CV_32FC3);
Mat result(layer.size(), CV_32FC3);
alphaBlend(layer, image, alpha, result);
result.convertTo(result, CV_8UC3);
// previous tries
//cv::copyTo(layer, image, );
//cv::addWeighted(image, 1, layer, 1, 0.5, result);
String windowName = "alpha blending";
namedWindow(windowName, WINDOW_NORMAL);
imshow(windowName, result);
waitKey(0);
destroyWindow(windowName);
}

Answer 2

Here's what you can try:
load your first image
cv::Mat img = cv::imread("img.jpeg");
find your smaller image - here I'm just resizing the same image
cv::Mat img_resize;
cv::resize(img, img_resize, cv::Size(), 0.3, 0.3);
choose the xy origin location
const cv::Point origin(100, 100);
create a Region of Interest
cv::Rect roi(origin, img_resize.size());
copy the matrix data in
img_resize.copyTo(img(roi));