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How to correctly pass YUV_420_888 Image Buffer from Java through JNI to OpenCV, accounting for stride/padding

I'm trying to convert the image data from an Android device from YUV_420_888 to an RGB matrix on the C++ side. On some devices, this is working flawlessly. On a Note 10, the image comes out looking like this:
My guess here is that the stride is causing this issue. How do I remove this extra data and then pass the correct buffer through JNI?
Here is the Java code:
IntBuffer rgb = image.getPlanes()[0].getBuffer().asIntBuffer();
NativeLib.passImageBuffer(rgb);
And here is the C++ code:
cv::Mat outputRGB;
cv::cvtColor(cv::Mat(height+height/2, width, CV_8UC1, inputRGB), outputRGB, CV_YUV2BGR_NV21);
I've tried some different image formats on the C++ side, but they all come back with the same band on the side of the screen.
I've implemented this answer, in order to remove the extra padding, but the image that is passed ends up being completely green. Do some corresponding edits need to be made to the C++ code? I've tried using a 3 channel format, but that crashes at runtime. I'm thinking that since passing the buffer works with the 1 channel matrix on phones that have 8 bits per pixel, that it should be possible to do that with the note 10?
Image.Plane Y = image.getPlanes()[0];
Image.Plane U = image.getPlanes()[1];
Image.Plane V = image.getPlanes()[2];
int[] rgbBytes = new int[image.getHeight()*image.getWidth()*4];
int idx = 0;
ByteBuffer yBuffer = Y.getBuffer();
int yPixelStride = Y.getPixelStride();
int yRowStride = Y.getRowStride();
ByteBuffer uBuffer = U.getBuffer();
int uPixelStride = U.getPixelStride();
int uRowStride = U.getRowStride();
ByteBuffer vBuffer = V.getBuffer();
int vPixelStride = V.getPixelStride();
int vRowStride = V.getRowStride();
ByteBuffer rgbBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(rgb.limit());
for (int row = 0; row < image.getHeight(); row++) {
for (int col = 0; col < image.getWidth(); col++) {
int y = yBuffer.get(col*yPixelStride + row*yRowStride) & 0xff;
int u = uBuffer.get(col/2*uPixelStride + row/2*uRowStride) & 0xff;
int v = vBuffer.get(col/2*vPixelStride + row/2*vRowStride) & 0xff;
int y1 = ((19077 << 8) * y) >> 16;
int r = (y1 + (((26149 << 8) * v) >> 16) - 14234) >> 6;
int g = (y1 - (((6419 << 8) * u) >> 16) - (((13320 << 8) * v) >> 16) + 8708) >> 6;
int b = (y1 + (((33050 << 8) * u) >> 16) - 17685) >> 6;
if (r < 0) r = 0;
if (g < 0) g = 0;
if (b < 0) b = 0;
if (r > 255) r = 255;
if (g > 255) g = 255;
if (b > 255) b = 255;
byte pixel = (byte)(0xff000000 + b + 256 * (g + 256 * r));
rgbBuffer.put(pixel);
}
}

Look at this repo
https://github.com/quickbirdstudios/yuvToMat/
It supports different formats (YUV420, NV12) and variety of pixel and row strides.

Android ImageReader get NV21 format?

I do not have a background in imaging or graphics, so please bear with me :)
I am using JavaCV in one of my projects. In the examples, a Frame is constructed which has a buffer of a certain size.
When using the public void onPreviewFrame(byte[] data, Camera camera) function in Android, copying this data byte array is no problem if you declare the Frame as new Frame(frameWidth, frameHeight, Frame.DEPTH_UBYTE, 2); where frameWidth and frameHeight are declared as
Camera.Size previewSize = cameraParam.getPreviewSize();
int frameWidth = previewSize.width;
int frameHeight = previewSize.height;
Recently, Android added a method to capture your screen. Naturally, I wanted to grab those images and also covert them to Frames. I modified the example code from Google to use the ImageReader.
This ImageReader is constructed as ImageReader.newInstance(DISPLAY_WIDTH, DISPLAY_HEIGHT, PixelFormat.RGBA_8888, 2);. So currently it uses the RGBA_8888 pixel format. I use the following code to copy the bytes to the Frame, which is instantiated as new Frame(DISPLAY_WIDTH, DISPLAY_HEIGHT, Frame.DEPTH_UBYTE, 2);:
ByteBuffer buffer = mImage.getPlanes()[0].getBuffer();
byte[] bytes = new byte[buffer.remaining()];
buffer.get(bytes);
mImage.close();
((ByteBuffer) frame.image[0].position(0)).put(bytes);
But this gives me a java.nio.BufferOverflowException. I printed the sizes of both buffers and the Frame's buffer size is 691200 whereas the bytes array above is of size 1413056. Figuring out how this latter number is constructed failed because I ran into this native call. So clearly, this won't work out.
After quite a bit of digging I found out that the NV21 image format is "the default format for Camera preview images, when not otherwise set with setPreviewFormat(int)", but the ImageReader class does not support the NV21 format (see the format parameter). So that's tough luck. In the documentation it also reads that
"For the android.hardware.camera2 API, the YUV_420_888 format is recommended for YUV output instead."
So I tried creating an ImageReader like this ImageReader.newInstance(DISPLAY_WIDTH, DISPLAY_HEIGHT, ImageFormat.YUV_420_888, 2);, but this gives me java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: The producer output buffer format 0x1 doesn't match the ImageReader's configured buffer format 0x23. so that won't work either.
As a last resort, I tried to convert RGBA_8888 to YUV myself using e.g. this post, but I fail to understand how I can obtain an int[] rgba as per the answer.
So, TL;DR how can I obtain NV21 image data like you get in Android's public void onPreviewFrame(byte[] data, Camera camera) camera function to instantiate my Frame and work with it using Android's ImageReader (and Media Projection)?
Edit (25-10-2016)
I have created the following conversion runnable to go from RGBA to NV21 format:
private class updateImage implements Runnable {
private final Image mImage;
public updateImage(Image image) {
mImage = image;
}
#Override
public void run() {
int mWidth = mImage.getWidth();
int mHeight = mImage.getHeight();
// Four bytes per pixel: width * height * 4.
byte[] rgbaBytes = new byte[mWidth * mHeight * 4];
// put the data into the rgbaBytes array.
mImage.getPlanes()[0].getBuffer().get(rgbaBytes);
mImage.close(); // Access to the image is no longer needed, release it.
// Create a yuv byte array: width * height * 1.5 ().
byte[] yuv = new byte[mWidth * mHeight * 3 / 2];
RGBtoNV21(yuv, rgbaBytes, mWidth, mHeight);
((ByteBuffer) yuvImage.image[0].position(0)).put(yuv);
}
void RGBtoNV21(byte[] yuv420sp, byte[] argb, int width, int height) {
final int frameSize = width * height;
int yIndex = 0;
int uvIndex = frameSize;
int A, R, G, B, Y, U, V;
int index = 0;
int rgbIndex = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < height; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < width; j++) {
R = argb[rgbIndex++];
G = argb[rgbIndex++];
B = argb[rgbIndex++];
A = argb[rgbIndex++]; // Ignored right now.
// RGB to YUV conversion according to
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV#Y.E2.80.B2UV444_to_RGB888_conversion
Y = ((66 * R + 129 * G + 25 * B + 128) >> 8) + 16;
U = ((-38 * R - 74 * G + 112 * B + 128) >> 8) + 128;
V = ((112 * R - 94 * G - 18 * B + 128) >> 8) + 128;
// NV21 has a plane of Y and interleaved planes of VU each sampled by a factor
// of 2 meaning for every 4 Y pixels there are 1 V and 1 U.
// Note the sampling is every other pixel AND every other scanline.
yuv420sp[yIndex++] = (byte) ((Y < 0) ? 0 : ((Y > 255) ? 255 : Y));
if (i % 2 == 0 && index % 2 == 0) {
yuv420sp[uvIndex++] = (byte) ((V < 0) ? 0 : ((V > 255) ? 255 : V));
yuv420sp[uvIndex++] = (byte) ((U < 0) ? 0 : ((U > 255) ? 255 : U));
}
index++;
}
}
}
}
The yuvImage object is initialized as yuvImage = new Frame(DISPLAY_WIDTH, DISPLAY_HEIGHT, Frame.DEPTH_UBYTE, 2);, the DISPLAY_WIDTH and DISPLAY_HEIGHT are just two integers specifying the display size.
This is the code where a background handler handles the onImageReady:
private final ImageReader.OnImageAvailableListener mOnImageAvailableListener
= new ImageReader.OnImageAvailableListener() {
#Override
public void onImageAvailable(ImageReader reader) {
mBackgroundHandler.post(new updateImage(reader.acquireNextImage()));
}
};
...
mImageReader = ImageReader.newInstance(DISPLAY_WIDTH, DISPLAY_HEIGHT, PixelFormat.RGBA_8888, 2);
mImageReader.setOnImageAvailableListener(mOnImageAvailableListener, mBackgroundHandler);
The methods work and I at least don't get any errors, but the output image is malformed. What is going wrong in my conversion? An example image that is being created:
Edit (15-11-2016)
I have modified the RGBtoNV21 function to be the following:
void RGBtoNV21(byte[] yuv420sp, int width, int height) {
try {
final int frameSize = width * height;
int yIndex = 0;
int uvIndex = frameSize;
int pixelStride = mImage.getPlanes()[0].getPixelStride();
int rowStride = mImage.getPlanes()[0].getRowStride();
int rowPadding = rowStride - pixelStride * width;
ByteBuffer buffer = mImage.getPlanes()[0].getBuffer();
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(getResources().getDisplayMetrics(), width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
int A, R, G, B, Y, U, V;
int offset = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < height; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < width; j++) {
// Useful link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26673127/android-imagereader-acquirelatestimage-returns-invalid-jpg
R = (buffer.get(offset) & 0xff) << 16; // R
G = (buffer.get(offset + 1) & 0xff) << 8; // G
B = (buffer.get(offset + 2) & 0xff); // B
A = (buffer.get(offset + 3) & 0xff) << 24; // A
offset += pixelStride;
int pixel = 0;
pixel |= R; // R
pixel |= G; // G
pixel |= B; // B
pixel |= A; // A
bitmap.setPixel(j, i, pixel);
// RGB to YUV conversion according to
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV#Y.E2.80.B2UV444_to_RGB888_conversion
// Y = ((66 * R + 129 * G + 25 * B + 128) >> 8) + 16;
// U = ((-38 * R - 74 * G + 112 * B + 128) >> 8) + 128;
// V = ((112 * R - 94 * G - 18 * B + 128) >> 8) + 128;
Y = (int) Math.round(R * .299000 + G * .587000 + B * .114000);
U = (int) Math.round(R * -.168736 + G * -.331264 + B * .500000 + 128);
V = (int) Math.round(R * .500000 + G * -.418688 + B * -.081312 + 128);
// NV21 has a plane of Y and interleaved planes of VU each sampled by a factor
// of 2 meaning for every 4 Y pixels there are 1 V and 1 U.
// Note the sampling is every other pixel AND every other scanline.
yuv420sp[yIndex++] = (byte) ((Y < 0) ? 0 : ((Y > 255) ? 255 : Y));
if (i % 2 == 0 && j % 2 == 0) {
yuv420sp[uvIndex++] = (byte) ((V < 0) ? 0 : ((V > 255) ? 255 : V));
yuv420sp[uvIndex++] = (byte) ((U < 0) ? 0 : ((U > 255) ? 255 : U));
}
}
offset += rowPadding;
}
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES).getAbsolutePath(), "/Awesomebitmap.png");
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, fos);
} catch (Exception e) {
Timber.e(e, "Converting image to NV21 went wrong.");
}
}
Now the image is no longer malformed, but the chroma is off.
The right side is the bitmap that is being created in that loop, the left side is the NV21 saved to an image. So the RGB pixels are processed correctly. Clearly the chroma is off, but the RGB to YUV conversion should be the same one as depicted by wikipedia. What could be wrong here?

Generally speaking, the point of ImageReader is to give you raw access to the pixels sent to the Surface with minimal overhead, so attempting to have it perform color conversions doesn't make sense.
For the Camera you get to pick one of two output formats (NV21 or YV12), so pick YV12. That's your raw YUV data. For screen capture the output will always be RGB, so you need to pick RGBA_8888 (format 0x1) for your ImageReader, rather than YUV_420_888 (format 0x23). If you need YUV for that, you will have to do the conversion yourself. The ImageReader gives you a series of Plane objects, not a byte[], so you will need to adapt to that.

Android : Preview frame, converted from YCbCr_420_SP (NV21) format to RGB render correct picture but in green

I post this question as I didn’t find answers solving my issues in the following posts :
Converting preview frame to bitmap
Android decodeYUV420SP results in green images?
Displaying YUV Image in Android
I got my data and cameraResolution (after selecting BestPreviewSize) from :
public void onPreviewFrame(byte[] data, Camera camera) {
Point cameraResolution = configManager.getCameraResolution();
Handler thePreviewHandler = previewHandler;
if (cameraResolution != null && thePreviewHandler != null) {
Message message = thePreviewHandler.obtainMessage(previewMessage, cameraResolution.x,
cameraResolution.y, data);
message.sendToTarget();
previewHandler = null;
} else {
Log.d(TAG, "Got preview callback, but no handler or resolution available");
}
}
Later from conversion to RGB, I use :
int[] pixels=new int[yuvData.length];
// int size = dataWidth*dataHeight;
// int[] pixels=new int[size]; replacing yuvData.length by size is not working too
pixels=decodeYUV420SP(pixels,yuvData, dataWidth, dataHeight);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(dataWidth, dataHeight, Bitmap.Config.RGB_565);
bitmap.setPixels(pixels, 0, dataWidth, 0, 0, dataWidth, dataHeight);
I tried 2 methods, one with RenderScript and one with decodeYUV420SP:
public Bitmap convertYUV420_NV21toRGB8888_RenderScript(byte [] data,int W, int H, CaptureActivityOCR fragment) {
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20358803/how-to-use-scriptintrinsicyuvtorgb-converting-byte-yuv-to-byte-rgba
RenderScript rs;
ScriptIntrinsicYuvToRGB yuvToRgbIntrinsic;
rs = RenderScript.create(fragment.getActivity());
yuvToRgbIntrinsic = ScriptIntrinsicYuvToRGB.create(rs, Element.U8_4(rs)); //Create an intrinsic for converting YUV to RGB.
Type.Builder yuvType = new Type.Builder(rs, Element.U8(rs)).setX(data.length);
Allocation in = Allocation.createTyped(rs, yuvType.create(), Allocation.USAGE_SCRIPT); //an Allocation will be populated with empty data when it is first created
Type.Builder rgbaType = new Type.Builder(rs, Element.RGBA_8888(rs)).setX(W).setY(H);
Allocation out = Allocation.createTyped(rs, rgbaType.create(), Allocation.USAGE_SCRIPT); //an Allocation will be populated with empty data when it is first created
in.copyFrom(data);//Populate Allocations with data.
yuvToRgbIntrinsic.setInput(in); //Set the input yuv allocation, must be U8(RenderScript).
yuvToRgbIntrinsic.forEach(out); //Launch the appropriate kernels,Convert the image to RGB.
Bitmap bmpout = Bitmap.createBitmap(W, H, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
out.copyTo(bmpout); //Copy data out of Allocation objects.
return bmpout;
}
or
int[] decodeYUV420SP(int[] rgb, byte[] yuv420sp, int width, int height) {
Log.e("camera", " decodeYUV420SP ");
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
final int frameSize = width * height;
for (int j = 0, yp = 0; j < height; j++) {
int uvp = frameSize + (j >> 1) * width, u = 0, v = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < width; i++, yp++) {
int y = (0xff & ((int) yuv420sp[yp])) - 16;
if (y < 0) y = 0;
if ((i & 1) == 0) {
v = (0xff & yuv420sp[uvp++]) - 128;
u = (0xff & yuv420sp[uvp++]) - 128;
}
int y1192 = 1192 * y;
int r = (y1192 + 1634 * v);
int g = (y1192 - 833 * v - 400 * u);
int b = (y1192 + 2066 * u);
if (r < 0) r = 0; else if (r > 262143) r = 262143;
if (g < 0) g = 0; else if (g > 262143) g = 262143;
if (b < 0) b = 0; else if (b > 262143) b = 262143;
rgb[yp] = 0xff000000 | ((r << 6) & 0xff0000) | ((g >> 2) & 0xff00) | ((b >> 10) & 0xff);
}
}
return rgb;
}
But still I don't know why I got some good image but in green. (I have another similar method in black and white which is working)
In addition of the links above,i tried all posts linked to this subject on SO , so If someone could help for another tip please? I may be confused with the size to apply?
Somewhere after OnPreviewFrame method and before conversion to RGB method, I use another method with instruction below as I need to rotate the data received. I am wondering if this is not the origin of issue :
byte[] rotatedData = new byte[data.length];
for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
rotatedData[x * height + height - y - 1] = data[x + y * width];
}
int tmp = width;
width = height;
height = tmp;
Please help me?

I think your rotation routine is wrong.
It works for Luma (Y), hence you get good results for black and white picture but not for chroma. If width and height are dimensions of your picture you do not rotate chroma values at all.
So you will need to add second loop for chroma and move pairs of bytes (V and U).
If you tried it without this rotation and you still have greenish picture the problem might be also in your decodeYUV420SP function.
There is not one universal formula for yuv to rgba conversion. It must match the opposite one.
Look here http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/402391/RGB-to-YUV-conversion-with-different-chroma-sampli and here http://www.fourcc.org/fccyvrgb.php
This one works for me
B = 1.164(Y - 16) + 2.018(U - 128)
G = 1.164(Y - 16) - 0.813(V - 128) - 0.391(U - 128)
R = 1.164(Y - 16) + 1.596(V - 128)
It seems to be the same as you are using only float version so you may try other.

I suggest to rotate the bitmap after RenderScript rotation:
if (bmpout == null) {
bmpout = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
}
rgbaAllocation.copyTo(bmpout);
if (matrixPostRotate90 == null) {
matrixPostRotate90 = new Matrix();
matrixPostRotate90.postRotate(90);
}
Bitmap rotatedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bmpout, 0, 0, w, h, matrixPostRotate90, true);

Android decodeYUV420SP results in green images?

Ok so my question is pretty much identical to this:
Converting preview frame to bitmap
However his answer is no good, and trying to use it doesn't solve my problem.
So what I'm trying to do at the moment is to send each frame as a bitmap to a method to detect if there are any faces, but first I need to create a bitmap which means I have to use the decodeYUV420sp method, which doesn't seem to be working properly and all my images just come out as a green and yellow tie dye looking image. Here is my code:
This is from onPreviewFrame:
Parameters parameters = cam.getParameters();
Integer width = parameters.getPreviewSize().width;
Integer height = parameters.getPreviewSize().height;
Log.i("preview size: ", String.valueOf(width) + "x" + String.valueOf(height));
int[] mIntArray = new int[width*height];
// Decode Yuv data to integer array
decodeYUV420SP(mIntArray, data, width, height);
//Initialize the bitmap, with the replaced color
Bitmap bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(mIntArray, width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
saveImage(bmp);
This is decodeYUV method:
static public void decodeYUV420SP(int[] rgba, byte[] yuv420sp, int width,
int height) {
final int frameSize = width * height;
for (int j = 0, yp = 0; j < height; j++) {
int uvp = frameSize + (j >> 1) * width, u = 0, v = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < width; i++, yp++) {
int y = (0xff & ((int) yuv420sp[yp])) - 16;
if (y < 0)
y = 0;
if ((i & 1) == 0) {
v = (0xff & yuv420sp[uvp++]) - 128;
u = (0xff & yuv420sp[uvp++]) - 128;
}
int y1192 = 1192 * y;
int r = (y1192 + 1634 * v);
int g = (y1192 - 833 * v - 400 * u);
int b = (y1192 + 2066 * u);
if (r < 0)
r = 0;
else if (r > 262143)
r = 262143;
if (g < 0)
g = 0;
else if (g > 262143)
g = 262143;
if (b < 0)
b = 0;
else if (b > 262143)
b = 262143;
// rgb[yp] = 0xff000000 | ((r << 6) & 0xff0000) | ((g >> 2) &
// 0xff00) | ((b >> 10) & 0xff);
// rgba, divide 2^10 ( >> 10)
rgba[yp] = ((r << 14) & 0xff000000) | ((g << 6) & 0xff0000)
| ((b >> 2) | 0xff00);
}
}
}
and this is the method I'm calling to save the bitmaps to see what they look like:
private void saveImage(Bitmap bmp) {
File myDir=new File("/sdcard/saved_images");
myDir.mkdirs();
Random generator = new Random();
int n = 10000;
n = generator.nextInt(n);
String fname = "Image-"+ n +".jpg";
File file = new File (myDir, fname);
if (file.exists ()) file.delete ();
try {
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, out);
out.flush();
out.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Here is a resulting image:
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1kyIvb4oHHInW_c71mjfFSVCxVopBgBWX3k1OR_nMgRA/edit

The key point here is that there are a (large) number of different YUV encodings, and an even larger list of names used for them. A lot of information about all the different variants (and their names) is given by fourcc, although 420SP isn't mentionned explicitly. Looking here, it looks like:
420P is the same as YV12. 'P' appears to stand for planar: there are three 'planes' of data one after the other: Y, U and then V. (Or, in YV21, which is also a 420P encoding, Y, V and then U.)
420SP is the same as NV12 (which is the same as NV21 but with U and V swapped around). 'SP' appears to stand for 'semi-planar', and so '420SP' could, technically, refer to either NV21 or NV12.
In this case, therefore, you are decoding NV12 (as opposed to NV21) and so the order of U and V is swapped around compared to the answer you quote in your answer. In case it helps, I have provided some code here.

Ok so the problem was the decodeYUV method which I got from a different stackoverflow post here:
Converting YUV->RGB(Image processing)->YUV during onPreviewFrame in android? didn't quite work.
But I replaced that with what I think must be the original decodeYUV method from here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=823
an

Android YUV Image format

In our application, we need to transfer video, we are using Camera class to capture the buffer and send to destination,
I have set format is YV12 as a Camera parameter to receive the buffer,
for the 500X300 buffer, we receive buffer of 230400 bytes,
i want to know , is this expected buffer size ?
I believe the size would be
Y Plane = width * height = 500X300 = 150000
U Plane = width/2 * height/2 = = 37500
V Plane = width/2 * height/2 = = 37500
========
225000
========
Can anyone explain me, if i need to get stride values of each component, how can i get that
Is there any way to get it ?

I can show you how you can get int rgb[] from this:
public int[] decodeYUV420SP(byte[] yuv420sp, int width, int height) {
final int frameSize = width * height;
int rgb[] = new int[width * height];
for (int j = 0, yp = 0; j < height; j++) {
int uvp = frameSize + (j >> 1) * width, u = 0, v = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < width; i++, yp++) {
int y = (0xff & ((int) yuv420sp[yp])) - 16;
if (y < 0)
y = 0;
if ((i & 1) == 0) {
v = (0xff & yuv420sp[uvp++]) - 128;
u = (0xff & yuv420sp[uvp++]) - 128;
}
int y1192 = 1192 * y;
int r = (y1192 + 1634 * v);
int g = (y1192 - 833 * v - 400 * u);
int b = (y1192 + 2066 * u);
if (r < 0)
r = 0;
else if (r > 262143)
r = 262143;
if (g < 0)
g = 0;
else if (g > 262143)
g = 262143;
if (b < 0)
b = 0;
else if (b > 262143)
b = 262143;
rgb[yp] = 0xff000000 | ((r << 6) & 0xff0000)
| ((g >> 2) & 0xff00) | ((b >> 10) & 0xff);
}
}
return rgb;
}

I guess Android document is already explained it:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/ImageFormat.html#YV12

I think this is simple.
chekout YUVImage class from android. You can construct an YUV Image from byte[]data coming from camera preview.
You can write like this:
//width and height you get it from camera properties, image width and height of camera preview
YuvImage image=new YuvImage(data, ImageFormat.NV21, int width, int height, null);
byte[] newData = image.getYuvData();
//or if you want int format = image.getYuvFormat();

It's a quite old question, but I've struggled with the same issue for a few days. So I decided to write some comments to help others.
YV12 described in the Android developer site(here) seems not a kind of YV12 but IMC1. The page says that both of the y-stride and the uv-stride should be aligned in 16bytes.
And also this page says that:
For YV12, the image buffer that is received is not necessarily tightly
packed, as there may be padding at the end of each row of pixel data,
as described in YV12.
Based on the above comments, I calculated it using python command line:
>>> w = 500
>>> h = 300
>>> y_stride = (500 + 15) / 16 * 16.0
>>> y_stride
512.0
>>> y_size = y_stride * h
>>> y_size
153600.0
>>> uv_stride = (500 / 2 + 15) / 16 * 16.0
>>> uv_stride
256.0
>>> u_size = uv_stride * h / 2
>>> v_size = uv_stride * h / 2
>>> size = y_size + u_size + v_size
>>> size
230400.0