From b28d13430c78e9df7e6e2a50b34c0fbd717ff8d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rostislav Vasilikhin <rostislav.vasilikhin@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 21:49:54 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fixed http://code.opencv.org/issues/3828

---
 modules/core/src/stat.cpp         |  5 +++++
 modules/core/test/test_arithm.cpp | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/modules/core/src/stat.cpp b/modules/core/src/stat.cpp
index 3c24f02541..e88d175108 100644
--- a/modules/core/src/stat.cpp
+++ b/modules/core/src/stat.cpp
@@ -2587,6 +2587,11 @@ void cv::findNonZero( InputArray _src, OutputArray _idx )
     Mat src = _src.getMat();
     CV_Assert( src.type() == CV_8UC1 );
     int n = countNonZero(src);
+    if (n == 0)
+    {
+        _idx.release();
+        return;
+    }
     if( _idx.kind() == _InputArray::MAT && !_idx.getMatRef().isContinuous() )
         _idx.release();
     _idx.create(n, 1, CV_32SC2);
diff --git a/modules/core/test/test_arithm.cpp b/modules/core/test/test_arithm.cpp
index ac88615955..57adb89210 100644
--- a/modules/core/test/test_arithm.cpp
+++ b/modules/core/test/test_arithm.cpp
@@ -1810,3 +1810,13 @@ TEST(MinMaxLoc, Mat_IntMax_Without_Mask)
     ASSERT_EQ(Point(0, 0), minLoc);
     ASSERT_EQ(Point(0, 0), maxLoc);
 }
+
+
+TEST(Core_FindNonZero, singular)
+{
+    Mat img(10, 10, CV_8U, Scalar::all(0));
+    vector<Point> pts, pts2(10);
+    findNonZero(img, pts);
+    findNonZero(img, pts2);
+    ASSERT_TRUE(pts.empty() && pts2.empty());
+}
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