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If a value for some pixel in an 8-bit depth source image is 225 then, depending on a transforming method, the pixel value in the output image could be:

~178 for ippiLUT_xxx

or

~207 for ippiLUT_Linear_xxx

or

~195 for ippiLUT_Cubic_xxx