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You might want to try something like below:

void filterImage (const sensor_msgs::ImageConstPtr& rgb_msg)
{
    sensor_msgs::Image current_rgb_msg;
    current_rgb_msg = *rgb_msg;   
}

You can further manipulate the value from current_rgb_msg variable.

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