Why is the imread() function acting weird in opencv 3.1 when running in Visual Studio 2015?

Question

Programming

Good afternoon. Faced a strange problem with the imread() function.
If we write like this:

Mat image_source = imread("C://Users//deus//Documents//MEGA//test_radius//Debug//k_image.jpg", CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE);

That image is loading.
if so

Mat image_source = imread("k_image.jpg", CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE);

That does not load, although the docks indicate that everything should be loaded.
For the experiment, I threw the file into the Debug folder, where the exe is compiled, and even into the project folder. It does not find the k_image.jpg image.
After asking Google, the problem was not solved. There were suggestions to use instead of Debug - Release, it did not give any effect.
Then I changed "k_image.jpg" to "k_image.jpg.jpg" to no avail either. The point is that he takes the image from the folder in which the .exe is located.

Answer 1

You need to manually get the path to the EXE file (GetModuleFileName()), then cut out the exe name from there and insert the file name.