Processing image with CUDA

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Hello,
I know that my question may be a bit stupid but here is my problem.
I am starting with CUDA programming and I have to work on images (creating filtering algorithms etc…). But I do not know how to charge an image to work on in my program, so how do I do to define an image (which libraries, what to include etc…)

I have never work on processing pictures before ^^

( I work with cuda 7.5 on windows 10)

thanks for helping

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example : capture frame from Web-camera, then transform color->sepia using OpenCV & CUDA
[url]http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/fareastprogramming/category/16/[/url]