I'm working on a very simple App where I need to visualize an image on the screen of an iPhone. However, the image has some special properties. It's a 16bit, yuv422_yuy2 encoded image. I already have all the raw bytes saved in a Data object. After googling for a long time, I still did not figure out the correct way. My current understanding is first create a CVPixelBuffer to properly represent the encoding information. Then conver the CVPixelBuffer to an UIImage. The following is my current implementation. public func YUV422YUY2ToUIImage(data: Data, height: Int, width: Int, bytesPerRow: Int) -> UIImage { return rosImage.data.withUnsafeMutableBytes { rawPointer in let baseAddress = rawPointer.baseAddress! let tempBufferPointer = UnsafeMutablePointer<CVPixelBuffer?>.allocate(capacity: 1) CVPixelBufferCreateWithBytes( kCFAllocatorDefault, width, height, kCVPixelFormatType_422YpCbCr16, baseAddress, bytesPerRow, nil, nil, nil, tempBufferPointer) let ciImage = CIImage(cvPixelBuffer: tempBufferPointer.pointee!) return UIImage(ciImage: ciImage) } } However, when I execute the code, I have the followin error -[CIImage initWithCVPixelBuffer:options:] failed because its pixel format v216 is not supported. So it seems CIImage is unhappy. I think I need to convert the encoding from yuv422_yuy2 to something like plain ARGB. But after a long tim googling, I didn't find a way to do that. The closest function I cand find is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/1533015-vimageconvert_422cbypcryp16toarg But the function is too complex for me to understand how to use it. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!