OpenCV - Reading a 16 bit grayscale image

Question

I\'m trying to read a 16 bit grayscale image using OpenCV 2.4 in Python, but it seems to be loading it as 8 bit.

I\'m doing:

im = cv2.imread(path,0)
         


        

Answer 1

Figured it out. In case anyone else runs into this problem:

im = cv2.imread(path,-1)

Setting the flag to 0, to load as grayscale seems to default to 8 bit. Setting to -1 loads the image as is.