Loads an image from the specified file and returns the pointer to the loaded image. Currently the following file formats are supported: Windows bitmaps - BMP, DIB; JPEG files - JPEG, JPG, JPE; Portable Network Graphics - PNG; Portable image format - PBM, PGM, PPM; Sun rasters - SR, RAS; TIFF files - TIFF, TIF; OpenEXR HDR images - EXR; JPEG 2000 images - jp2.

public static IntPtr cvLoadImage(
	string filename,
	LOAD_IMAGE_TYPE loadType
)

Public Shared Function cvLoadImage ( _
	filename As String, _
	loadType As LOAD_IMAGE_TYPE _
) As IntPtr

public:
static IntPtr cvLoadImage(
	String^ filename, 
	LOAD_IMAGE_TYPE loadType
)