How can I rotate and paste image with alpha channel using vImage in ios?

Question

I have a large image A and another image B which has an alpha channel that I would like to paste into A. I want to apply an affine transform to B before I stick it on to A. What are the steps to doing this in c++ using vImage in iOS?

Answer 1

I doubt you were able to get any of the answers posted here to work; there are just not enough specifics in them to help someone who had a question like this to begin with.

Here's your working answer:

- (CVPixelBufferRef)copyRenderedPixelBuffer:(CVPixelBufferRef)pixelBuffer {

CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress( pixelBuffer, 0 );

unsigned char *base = (unsigned char *)CVPixelBufferGetBaseAddress( pixelBuffer );
size_t width = CVPixelBufferGetWidth( pixelBuffer );
size_t height = CVPixelBufferGetHeight( pixelBuffer );
size_t stride = CVPixelBufferGetBytesPerRow( pixelBuffer );
//size_t extendedWidth = stride / sizeof( uint32_t ); // each pixel is 4 bytes/32 bits
vImage_Buffer _img = {
    .data = base,
    .height = height,
    .width = width,
    .rowBytes = stride
};

size_t pixelBufferSize = (stride  * height) / sizeof(uint8_t);
void* gBuffer = malloc(pixelBufferSize);
vImage_Buffer _dstG = {
    .data = gBuffer,
    .height = height / sizeof(uint8_t),
    .width = width / sizeof(uint8_t),
    .rowBytes = stride / sizeof(uint8_t)
};

vImage_Error err;

const uint8_t map[4] = { 3, 2, 1, 0 };
err = vImagePermuteChannels_ARGB8888(&_img, &_img, map, kvImageNoFlags);
if (err != kvImageNoError)
    NSLog(@"Error: %ld", err);

err = vImageExtractChannel_ARGB8888(&_img, &_dstG, 2, kvImageNoError);
if (err != kvImageNoError)
    NSLog(@"Error: %ld", err);

err = vImageEqualization_Planar8(&_dstG, &_dstG, kvImageNoError);
if (err != kvImageNoError)
    NSLog(@"Error: %ld", err);

err = vImageContrastStretch_Planar8( &_dstG, &_dstG, kvImageNoError );
if (err != kvImageNoError)
    NSLog(@"Error: %ld", err);

err = vImageOverwriteChannels_ARGB8888(&_dstG, &_img, &_img, 0x2, kvImageNoError);
if (err != kvImageNoError)
    NSLog(@"Error: %ld", err);

err = vImagePermuteChannels_ARGB8888(&_img, &_img, map, kvImageNoFlags);
if (err != kvImageNoError)
    NSLog(@"Error: %ld", err);

CVPixelBufferUnlockBaseAddress( pixelBuffer, 0 );

free(gBuffer);

return (CVPixelBufferRef)CFRetain( pixelBuffer );

}