Using glGetTexImage() to aquire OpenCV Mat - c++

Question

Im trying to make an OpenCV Mat() using output from OpenGL's glGetTexImage(). The texture I am trying to get information from was made using the call;
glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA8UI, iWidth, iHeight, 0, GL_RGBA_INTEGER, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, pImageData);
and so I've tried to do this using;
unsigned char* texture_bytes = (unsigned char*)malloc(sizeof(unsigned char)*texture_width*texture_height * 3);
glGetTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_BGR, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texture_bytes);
Matrix = Mat(texture_height, texture_width, CV_8UC3, texture_bytes);
What I am wondering is If anyone knows what I should set the format and type of glGetTexImage() to in order for this to work. Also, what should i set the type of the Mat() to?
You can assume that the context is set correctly, and that the texture that is input is correct. I have verified this by displaying the texture on screen using OpenGL. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I have been faced with the problem of getting data from OpenGL to OpenCV recently. I didn't use glGetTexImage though.
What I did was an offscreen render in a framebuffer with a texture initialized like this:
GLuint texture;
if (glIsTexture(texture)) {
glDeleteTextures(1, &texture);
}
glGenTextures(1, &texture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA32F, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_FLOAT, 0);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture, 0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
Then after my draw calls, I get the data using glReadPixels:
glPixelStorei(GL_PACK_ALIGNMENT, 1);
glReadBuffer(GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0);
cv::Mat texture = cv::Mat::zeros(height, width, CV_32FC3);
glReadPixels(0, 0, width, height, GL_BGR, GL_FLOAT, texture.data);
Hope it helps you.

Answer 2

You have a mismatch in the format parameter used for the glGetTexImage() call and the internal format of the texture:
glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA8UI, iWidth, iHeight, 0, GL_RGBA_INTEGER, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, pImageData);
...
glGetTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_BGR, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texture_bytes);
For an integer texture, which you have in this case, you need to use a format parameter to glGetTexImage() that works for integer textures. In your example, that would be:
glGetTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_BGR_INTEGER, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texture_bytes);
It is always a good idea to call glGetError() if you have any kind of problem getting the desired OpenGL behavior. In this case, you would have gotten a GL_INVALID_OPERATION error, based on this error condition in the spec:
format is one of the integer formats in table 8.3 and the internal format of the texture image is not integer, or format is not one of the integer formats in table 8.3 and the internal format is integer.