Extract image pixels of triangle Error - c++

Question

I'm new to image processing and development. I need to take the inside triangle pixels of the image. In order to do it I used the following code. Unfortunately I obtain unwanted black pixels. get rid of that problem i tried to remove background[0] pixels by giving alfa value.(tranparent background) But it gives following Error. Any help is appreciated.
My code:
Mat img = cv::imread("/home/fabio/code/lena.jpg", cv::IMREAD_GRAYSCALE);
Mat alpha(img.size(), CV_8UC1, Scalar(0));
//triangle definition (example points)
vector<Point> points;
points.push_back(Point(200, 70));
points.push_back(Point(60, 150));
points.push_back(Point(500, 500));
//apply triangle to mask
fillConvexPoly(alpha, points, Scalar(255));
cv::Mat finalImage = cv::Mat::zeros(img.size(), img.type());
img.copyTo(finalImage, alpha);
imshow("image", finalImage);
Mat dst;
Mat rgb[1];
split(finalImage, rgb);
Mat rgba[2] = { finalImage, alpha };
merge(rgba, 2, dst);
imshow("dst", dst);
Error: OpenCV Error: Bad number of channels (Source image must have 1, 3 or 4 channels) in cvConvertImage, file C:\builds\2_4_PackSlave-win64-vc12-shared\opencv\modules\highgui\src\utils.cpp, line 611

Answer 1

use this instead of your last block:
std::vector<cv::Mat> channels;
cv::split(finalImage,m channels);
if(channels.size() == 0)
{
std::cout << "unexpected error" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
// fill up to reach 3 channels
while(channels,size() < 3)
{
channels.push_back(channels[0]);
}
// add alpha channel
channels.push_back(alpha);
cv::merge(channels, dst);
I didn't test it but this should be what you want?