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I am a total newbie and am going through the tutorials. So, I randomly picked up a pic from my computer and printed the number of channels of the image.

cv::Mat A;
A = cv::imread("../data/image.png", CV_8UC3);
std::cout << A.channels();

The answer is 1. But, what utterly confuses me is that how can a colored image can just be represented with one channel. And if it is only 1 channel, how do I know which channel does it represent ( R, G or B ) ?

Maybe I am missing the basics and corresponding materials can be referred to?

I am a total newbie and am going through the tutorials. So, I randomly picked up a pic from my computer and printed the number of channels of the image.

cv::Mat A;
A = cv::imread("../data/image.png", CV_8UC3);
std::cout << A.channels();

The answer is 1. But, what utterly confuses me is that how can a colored image can just be represented with one channel. And if it is only 1 channel, how do I know which channel does it represent ( R, G or B ) ?

Maybe I am missing the basics and corresponding materials can be referred to?

I am a total newbie and am going through the tutorials. So, I randomly picked up a pic from my computer and printed the number of channels of the image.

cv::Mat A;
A = cv::imread("../data/image.png", CV_8UC3);
std::cout << A.channels();

The answer is 1. But, what utterly confuses me is that how can a colored image can just be represented with one channel. And if it is only 1 channel, how do I know which channel does it represent ( R, G or B ) ?

Maybe I am missing the basics and corresponding materials can be referred to?