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In this article I demonstrate how to install OpenCV for C++ from source using cmake. Following this I show how to configure my favorite code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), along with the awesome Microsoft extensions CMake Tools and C/C++ IntelliSense which provides a fantastic, productivity boosting, development environment.
The Mat class is the workhorse of OpenCV for C++ with around twenty different constructors available providing significant flexibility for building a Mat object to represent image data from a variety of sources. In this How To article I discuss and demonstrate construction of the OpenCV C++ Mat object from array and vector data types.
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