"assertion failed (m.dims>=2) in Mat" Raspberry Pi OpenCV

Question

I downloaded a project which allows to get frames from Pi camera module with OpenCV. When I try to run the downloaded code, It works without a problem. I just want to apply simple trheshold operation on frames but I got the error shown below.

I check the frames' type and channel. image.channels() returns 1 and image.type() returns 0. I can't see any reason for the threshold operation error.

What is the problem here?

The error:

The Code:

 #include "cap.h"
 #include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
 #include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>

 using namespace cv;
 using namespace std;

 int main() {
 namedWindow("Video");

// Create capture object, similar to VideoCapture
// PiCapture(width, height, color_flag);
// color_flag = true  => color images are captured,
// color_flag = false => greyscale images are captured
PiCapture cap(320, 240, false);

Mat image,binary;
double time = 0;
unsigned int frames = 0;


cout << "Press 'q' to quit" << endl;
while(char(waitKey(1)) != 'q') {
    double t0 = getTickCount();
    image = cap.grab();

std::cout<<image.channels()<< endl;//check for channel
cout<<image.type()<< endl;//check for type
threshold(image,binary,150,255,THRESH_BINARY);//threshold operation

frames++;
    if(!image.empty()) imshow("Hello", image);
    else cout << "Frame dropped" << endl;

    time += (getTickCount() - t0) / getTickFrequency();
    cout << frames / time << " fps" << endl;
}

return 0;
}

Answer 1

Assertion m.ndims >= 2 is to check that the matrix in question is a valid two dimensional image. While you have a conditional to show the image only if it's not empty. But the assertion must be failing before the program reaches that conditional. So you shouldn't be seeing any image window pop up.