Convert Image object to rgb pixel array and back in Flutter

Question

Is there a way to get an image's rgb matrix representation? and vice versa? I would like to perform image masking/filtering on the original image so it needs to be applied to its rgb matrix representation. Currently using this library to get an image from a device: https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/image_picker

Solution

https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/image provides image conversion and manipulation utility functions.