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 Mat Imread(
	string filename,
	ImreadModes loadType = ImreadModes.Color
)

Public Shared Function Imread ( 
	filename As String,
	Optional loadType As ImreadModes = ImreadModes.Color
) As Mat

public:
static Mat^ Imread(
	String^ filename, 
	ImreadModes loadType = ImreadModes::Color
)

static member Imread : 
        filename : string * 
        ?loadType : ImreadModes 
(* Defaults:
        let _loadType = defaultArg loadType ImreadModes.Color
*)
-> Mat