How to read an Image using CUDA programming? - visual-studio-2012

I am very beginner in CUDA. I just want to know how to read an image using CUDA programming? I am having NVidia Geforce 860 M, Installed Visual Studio 2012, CUDA 7.5.
Thanks in advance!!!

I think you can only do it via a CPU and then transfer the image to the CUDA board's memory. CUDA boards do not provide access to the file system.
You will need to read the file using C++ functions and then pass the pointer of the image pixels Array to CUDAMEMCPY function.This will transfer the image from the CPU memory to the GPU Global memory.

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