Converting cv::Mat rotation matrix to quaternion

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In that case, personally, I'd lean towards constructing a tf2::Matrix3x3 from the cv::Mat. Then you can construct a tf2::Transform from the Matrix3x3, and then use tf2::toMsg to convert to a geometry_msgs/Pose directly. You could also call getRotation as I mentioned earlier to get a Quaternion directly, and then fill out the components of the pose.orientation with the components of the quaternion.

A quick Google also found this which might be helpful: https://gist.github.com/shubh-agrawal...

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Since this became the accepted answer, I figured I'd post a little example of what I described. Something like the following should work:

#include <opencv2/calib3d.hpp>
#include <opencv2/core.hpp>
#include <tf2/LinearMath/Matrix3x3.h>
#include <tf2/LinearMath/Transform.h>
#include <tf2/LinearMath/Vector3.h>
#include <tf2_geometry_msgs/tf2_geometry_msgs.h>

// Build identity rotation matrix as a cv::Mat
cv::Mat rot(3, 3, CV_64FC1);
cv::Rodrigues(cv::Vec3d({0.0, 0.0, 0.0}), rot);
// Convert to a tf2::Matrix3x3
tf2::Matrix3x3 tf2_rot(rot.at<double>(0, 0), rot.at<double>(0, 1), rot.at<double>(0, 2),
                       rot.at<double>(1, 0), rot.at<double>(1, 1), rot.at<double>(1, 2),
                       rot.at<double>(2, 0), rot.at<double>(2, 1), rot.at<double>(2, 2));
// Create a transform and convert to a Pose
tf2::Transform tf2_transform(tf2_rot, tf2::Vector3());
geometry_msgs::Pose pose_msg;
tf2::toMsg(tf2_transform, pose_msg);