OpenCV and 14/42 bit

Question

Currently I am working on a project where i'm taking images from a camera. Issue is though, it gives either 14 or 42 bit 3 channel images (depending on settings).

What I am trying to figure out, but can not really find anything about is can i somehow convert the incoming 14 or 42 bit image to a format that is usable for OpenCV?

It would even be enough if I managed to get it to the CV_8U, 3 settings in this case.

Anyone that can give me any insight on this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

How do you get your data into your program? Is it saved in files and do you read them with cv::imread()? What's the Mat::type() then?

The best seems to scale the 14-bit data to 16-bit by simply multipling it with 4. So you can store it in an CV_16U Mat.