From 72d4e89658eb2892dd990e764383beaf075f4541 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roberto Carvajal <roberto.carvajal@sorenworks.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 13:09:35 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fixes assertion in morph detector

---
 src/openalpr/detection/detectormorph.cpp | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/openalpr/detection/detectormorph.cpp b/src/openalpr/detection/detectormorph.cpp
index e641feb..c06c05c 100644
--- a/src/openalpr/detection/detectormorph.cpp
+++ b/src/openalpr/detection/detectormorph.cpp
@@ -50,8 +50,16 @@ namespace alpr {
   vector<PlateRegion> DetectorMorph::detect(Mat frame, std::vector<cv::Rect> regionsOfInterest) {
 
     Mat frame_gray,frame_gray_cp;
-    cvtColor(frame, frame_gray, CV_BGR2GRAY);
-    
+
+    if (frame.channels() > 2)
+    {
+      cvtColor( frame, frame_gray, CV_BGR2GRAY );
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      frame.copyTo(frame_gray);
+    }
+
     frame_gray.copyTo(frame_gray_cp);
     blur(frame_gray, frame_gray, Size(5, 5));