C# EmguCV/OpenCV "cvThreshold" abnormal behaviour - no expected threshold result - c#

There is a task of recognition red areas on an image and it requires maximum of accuracy. But the quality of a source image is quite bad. I'm trying to minimize a noise on a mask with detected red areas using cvThreshold. Unfortunately, there is no expected effect - gray artifacts stay.
//Converting from Bgr to Hsv
Image<Hsv, Byte> hsvimg = markedOrigRecImg.Convert<Hsv, Byte>();
Image<Gray, Byte>[] channels = hsvimg.Split();
Image<Gray, Byte> hue = channels[0];
Image<Gray, Byte> saturation = channels[1];
Image<Gray, Byte> value = channels[2];
Image<Gray, Byte> hueFilter = hue.InRange(new Gray(0), new Gray(30));
Image<Gray, Byte> satFilter = saturation.InRange(new Gray(100), new Gray(255));
Image<Gray, Byte> valFilter = value.InRange(new Gray(50), new Gray(255));
//Mask contains gray artifacts
Image<Gray,Byte> mask = (hueFilter.And(satFilter)).And(valFilter);
//Gray artifacts stays even if threshold (the third param.) value is 0...
CvInvoke.cvThreshold(mask, mask, 100, 255, THRESH.CV_THRESH_BINARY);
mask.Save("D:/img.jpg");
In the same time here it works fine - saved image is purely white:
#region test
Image<Gray,Byte> some = new Image<Gray, byte>(mask.Size);
some.SetValue(120);
CvInvoke.cvThreshold(some, some, 100, 255, THRESH.CV_THRESH_BINARY);
some.Save("D:/some.jpg");
#endregion
Mask before threshold example:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52502108/input.jpg
Mask after threshold example:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52502108/output.jpg
Thank You in advance.
Constantine B.

The reason of an appearing of that gray artifacts on saved images after applying of any kind of a threshold is... *.JPG standard saving format of Image<TColor, TDepth>! More precisely, a jpeg compression applied by it. So there was no problem with thresholding itself. Just a spoiled output image. It was confusing strongly though. The right way of saving such images (without artifacts) is, for example: Image<TColor,TDepth>.Bitmap.Save(your_path, ImageFormat.Bmp)

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Now what I want to be able to do with this mask is to turn it transparent.
At the moment it will just display a black background around a person (for example), and then saves to file.
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What I have so far is in C# :
imgInput = new Image<Bgr, byte>(FileName);
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pictureBox2.Image = imgInput.Copy(mask).Bitmap;
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I am not sure I really understand what you are trying to do. But a mask is a binary object. A mask is usually black for what you do not want and white for what you do. As far as I know, there is no transparent mask, as to me that makes no sense. Masks are used to extract parts of an image by masking out the rest.
Maybe you could elaborate on what it is you want to do?
Doug
I think I may have the solution I was looking for. I found some code on stackoverflow which I've tweaked a little :
public Image<Bgra, Byte> MakeTransparent(Image<Bgr, Byte> image, double r1, double r2)
{
Mat imageMat = image.Mat;
Mat finalMat = new Mat(imageMat.Rows, imageMat.Cols, DepthType.Cv8U, 4);
Mat tmp = new Mat(imageMat.Rows, imageMat.Cols, DepthType.Cv8U, 1);
Mat alpha = new Mat(imageMat.Rows, imageMat.Cols, DepthType.Cv8U, 1);
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VectorOfMat vector = new VectorOfMat(rgba);
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