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if you use the openni_kinect node to publish the data from the kinect, you could subscribe to one of the camera topics(/camera/rgb/image_color or /camera/rgb/image_mono). this would give you and image message which can be converted to an opencv iplimage using the cv_bridge package (http://www.ros.org/wiki/cv_bridge)

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