In OpenCV (Python), why am I getting 3 channel images from a grayscale image?

Question

I am using Python (2.7) and bindings for OpenCV 2.4.6 on Ubuntu 12.04

I load an image

    image = cv2.imread(\'image.jpg\')

I then chec

Answer 1

try this:

 img = cv2.imread('gray.jpg',0)

0 for gray and 1 for color