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Instead of trying to do that conversion by hand for each pixel, I recommend that you use the cv_bridge package to convert your sensor_msgs/Image into a cv::Mat, which should be easier to use. The cv_bridge tutorial is probably a good place to start, but obviously you'll need to change the image encoding parameters.

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