Place an image on an image

Question

I want to place an image on a captured video frame at the coordinates which I determined.

I asked that before and I have been told to use cvCopy and cvSetImageROI but I dont want to crop on those coordinates I want to add another image. Maybe it's the right way but I didn't understand it (if its right please explain it).

Answer 1

I did this a while ago using SetRoi, it was something like this. I have two images, one is a thumbnail called thumb_frame that is the small picture I will include in the large image show_frame

//I set the ROI to the same size as the thumb_frame
cvSetImageROI(show_frame.image, cvRect(thumbnail_x_pos,
                    thumbnail_y_pos, thumb_frame->width, thumb_frame->height));

//I add the image to the designated ROI
cvAddWeighted(thumb_frame, alpha, show_frame, beta, 0, show_frame);

That's about it.

Answer 2

void cvOverlayImage(IplImage* src, IplImage* overlay, CvPoint location, CvScalar S, CvScalar D)
{
 int x,y,i;

  for(x=0;x < overlay->width -10;x++)     
//replace '-10' by whatever x position you want your overlay image to begin. 
//say '-varX'
    {
        if(x+location.x>=src->width) continue;
        for(y=0;y < overlay->height -10;y++)  
//replace '-10' by whatever y position you want your overlay image to begin.
//say '-varY'
        {
            if(y+location.y>=src->height) continue;
            CvScalar source = cvGet2D(src, y+location.y, x+location.x);
            CvScalar over = cvGet2D(overlay, y, x);
            CvScalar merged;
            for(i=0;i<4;i++)
            merged.val[i] = (S.val[i]*source.val[i]+D.val[i]*over.val[i]);
            cvSet2D(src, y+location.y, x+location.x, merged);
        }
    }
}

To use it

cvOverlayImage(largerimage, overlayimage, cvPoint(10, 10), cvScalar(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5), cvScalar(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5)); 
//The cvPoint(10,10) can be the cvPoint(varX,varY) depending on how you write the function 
//and how you want to use it. 
//You cannot choose values less than 'varX' and 'varY' in this case
//else you would see a runtime error.