OpenCV image loading for OpenGL Texture

I want to load an image (jpg and png) with OpenCV as OpenGL Texture.

Here is how I load the image to OpenGL:

glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
  textureData = loadTextureData("textures/trashbin.png");
  cv::Mat image = cv::imread("textures/trashbin.png");
  if(image.empty()){
      std::cout << "image empty" << std::endl;
  }else{
      glGenTextures( 1, &textureTrash );
      glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureTrash );
      glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
      glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
      glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S , GL_REPEAT );
      glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT );
      glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D,0,3,image.cols, image.rows,0,GL_RGB,GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, image.data);
  }

The image is loaded, as "image.empty" always returns false

Here is how I render the scene using the created texture:

  glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
  glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureTrash);
  glm_ModelViewMatrix.top() = glm::translate(glm_ModelViewMatrix.top(),0.0f,-13.0f,-10.0f);
  glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocations["modelview"], 1, false, glm::value_ptr(glm_ModelViewMatrix.top()));

  std::cout << "textureShaderID: " << glGetUniformLocation(shaderProgram,"texture") << std::endl;

  glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(shaderProgram,"texture"), 0);
  objLoader->getMeshObj("trashbin")->render();

And finally the fragmentShader where I want to apply the texture to my geometry

#version 330
in vec2 tCoord;

// texture //
// TODO: set up a texture uniform //
uniform sampler2D texture;

// this defines the fragment output //
out vec4 color;

void main() {
  // TODO: get the texel value from your texture at the position of the passed texture coordinate //
  color = texture2D(texture, tCoord);
}

The texture coordinates are come