Question 1: Short answer
mediumAI-checkedSegmentationA segmentation label mask stores class indices as uint8. It is converted like an input image:
import numpy as np
from torchvision import transforms
mask = np.full((4, 4, 1), 15, dtype=np.uint8) # every pixel has class 15
t = transforms.ToTensor()(mask)
print(round(t[0, 0, 0].item(), 4))
What is printed?