Android: Highgui.imread Help

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(Android emulator + OpenCV)

I'm using the android camera app to take a picture. I am successfully able to get the newly taken picture bitmap and display it:

Bitmap theImage = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");

but now i need to get an Mat out of the picture. For that, i've been using a simple line:

Mat a = Highgui.imread("data");

I've testing it and it is always empty! How can i reach the picture then? Reaching a gallery photo would be fine as well but i don't know how.

Thanks