How to display OpenCV Mat object using JavaFX?

The JavaFX library provides a class with name ImageView using this you can display an image. This class accepts an object of the WritableImage class.

To display an image Stored in OpenCV Mat object you need to convert it into a WritableImage object and pass it the ImageView class.

Example

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.embed.swing.SwingFXUtils;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.image.WritableImage;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import org.opencv.core.Core;
import org.opencv.core.Mat;
import org.opencv.core.MatOfByte;
import org.opencv.imgcodecs.Imgcodecs;
public class DisplayingImagesJavaFX extends Application {
   @Override
   public void start(Stage stage) throws IOException {
      WritableImage writableImage = loadImage();
      //Setting the image view
      ImageView imageView = new ImageView(writableImage);
      imageView.setX(50);
      imageView.setY(25);
      imageView.setFitHeight(400);
      imageView.setFitWidth(500);
      imageView.setPreserveRatio(true);
      //Creating a Group object
      Group root = new Group(imageView);
      //Creating a scene object
      Scene scene = new Scene(root, 600, 400);
      //Setting title to the Stage
      stage.setTitle("Loading an image");
      //Adding scene to the stage
      stage.setScene(scene);
      //Displaying the contents of the stage
      stage.show();
   }
   public WritableImage loadImage() throws IOException {
      //Loading the OpenCV core library
      System.loadLibrary( Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME );
      //Reading the Image from the file and storing it in to a Matrix object
      String file = "D:\\images\\tree.jpg";
      Mat image = Imgcodecs.imread(file);
      //Encoding the image
      MatOfByte matOfByte = new MatOfByte();
      Imgcodecs.imencode(".jpg", image, matOfByte);
      //Storing the encoded Mat in a byte array
      byte[] byteArray = matOfByte.toArray();
      //Displaying the image
      InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
      BufferedImage bufImage = ImageIO.read(in);
      System.out.println("Image Loaded");
      WritableImage writableImage = SwingFXUtils.toFXImage(bufImage, null);
      return writableImage;
   }
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      launch(args);
   }
}

Output

On executing, the above program generates the following output −