#include USING_PART_OF_NAMESPACE_EIGEN using namespace std; // define a custom template binary functor struct CwiseMinOp EIGEN_EMPTY_STRUCT { template Scalar operator()(const Scalar& a, const Scalar& b) const { return std::min(a,b); } }; // define a custom binary operator between two matrices template const Eigen::CwiseBinaryOp cwiseMin(const MatrixBase &mat1, const MatrixBase &mat2) { return Eigen::CwiseBinaryOp(mat1, mat2); } int main(int, char**) { Matrix4d m1 = Matrix4d::random(), m2 = Matrix4d::random(); cout << cwiseMin(m1,m2) << endl; // use our new global operator cout << m1.cwise(m2) << endl; // directly use the generic expression member cout << m1.cwise(m2, CwiseMinOp()) << endl; // directly use the generic expression member (variant) return 0; }