Merge pull request #12980 from LaurentBerger:copyToPy

modules/core/include/opencv2/core.hpp

@@ -1346,6 +1346,17 @@ You may even get a negative value in the case of overflow.
 */
 CV_EXPORTS_W void absdiff(InputArray src1, InputArray src2, OutputArray dst);
 
+/** @brief  This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience (python)
+Copies the matrix to another one.
+When the operation mask is specified, if the Mat::create call shown above reallocates the matrix, the newly allocated matrix is initialized with all zeros before copying the data.
+@param src source matrix.
+@param dst Destination matrix. If it does not have a proper size or type before the operation, it is
+reallocated.
+@param mask Operation mask of the same size as \*this. Its non-zero elements indicate which matrix
+elements need to be copied. The mask has to be of type CV_8U and can have 1 or multiple channels.
+*/
+
+void CV_EXPORTS_W copyTo(InputArray src, OutputArray dst, InputArray mask);
 /** @brief  Checks if array elements lie between the elements of two other arrays.
 
 The function checks the range as follows:

modules/core/src/arithm.cpp

@@ -945,6 +945,13 @@ void cv::absdiff( InputArray src1, InputArray src2, OutputArray dst )
     arithm_op(src1, src2, dst, noArray(), -1, getAbsDiffTab(), false, 0, OCL_OP_ABSDIFF);
 }
 
+void cv::copyTo(InputArray _src, OutputArray _dst, InputArray _mask)
+{
+    CV_INSTRUMENT_REGION();
+
+    _src.copyTo(_dst, _mask);
+}
+
 /****************************************************************************************\
 *                                    multiply/divide                                     *
 \****************************************************************************************/