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in general, no.
but beware, the default flag for imread(img_path, flag) is CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR(==1), so that would leave you with 3 identical channels, even if your img is 1-channel gray on disk.
to avoid that problem, call imread(path, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE) // or 0 for the flag
if you want a 1-channel img here
