To inspect native memory usage i will use valgrind. I am quite new to opencv and having some memory leaks in my application due to cvmat usage.
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Cv mat memory management. Memory management of mat. In opencv the image class is cvmat which has a delicate memory management scheme. If i use a mat as follows. Suppose i already have my own image class selfimage. If youre new to opencv you need to know exactly how to manage all the huge amounts of memory youre using. Active 4 years 4 months ago.
Memory management is essential for an image class. The assignment operator and the copy constructor only copies the header. First of all stdvector mat and other data structures used by the functions and methods have destructors that. Note that all 10000 mat objects are still allocated on the heap with 10000 finalizers when the program exists. Opencv memory management of cvmat. Cc isnt a garbage collected language like java so you need to manually release memory as soon as its use is over.
Unlike conversions from cvmat however with conversions to cvmat we now have to be concerned about memory management. Keep in mind that qimage uses implicit data sharing so when assigning one qimage to another it keeps track of how many qimages are using the same data and releases it when nobody is using it. This is about how you store the pixel values. Viewed 911 times 0. Opencv handles all the memory automatically. What i dont understand it how and exactly when it will de allocate the memory of a mat.
Automatic memory management opencv handles all the memory automatically. You do not need to think about memory management with opencvs c interface. After having a look at the monitoring i noticed that the ram of 5. Ask question asked 4 years 4 months ago. Calling matrelease did not garbage collect any of the mat objects again. Is it okay if i just pushback them in a vector mat and get back as soon as i need them.
Reason for my question is that i tried to load 150 images 300 mb with imread and after 100 the system starts to slow down extremely. And gets decreased when an instance goes out of scope. Hey there i am looking for the best practice to save a lot of images of type cvmat in the cache. First of all stdvector cvmat and other data structures used by the functions and methods have destructors that deallocate the underlying memory buffers when neededthis means that the destructors do not always deallocate the buffers as in case of mat. The underlying matrix of an image may be copied using the cvmatclone and cvmatcopyto functions. Cvmat holds an internal refcount which gets increased once you assigncopy it like mat ab.