Whenever i read a colored image with 3 channels via cv::imread; its data alignment is a bit awkward (neither a byte nor an integer) and slows me down when i read a single pixel data on GPU memory. And it seems cv::Mat class's logic behind the alignment is a bit different than what i had initially thought. It does not add an extra byte between two pixels in a single row in order to have each pixel in a row started at every 4 bytes; but rather it pads some extra bytes at the END of each row for which any row may start at every 4 bytes boundary.
What should i do to pack each pixel data into a single unsigned integer? Is there a built-in method in OpenCV so that i do not have to use logical OR operation for packing each pixel data one by one?
Kind Regards.
You can convert the pixel format from
BGRtoBGRASee this example.