Raw or Cooked? Object Detection on RAW Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08965v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 15:42:53 GMT
• Title: Raw or Cooked? Object Detection on RAW Images
• Authors: William Ljungbergh, Joakim Johnander, Christoffer Petersson, and Michael Felsberg
• Abstract summary: We investigate the hypothesis that the intermediate representation of visually pleasing images is sub-optimal for downstream computer vision tasks. We suggest that the operations of the ISP instead should be optimized towards the end task, by learning the parameters of the operations jointly during training. We propose a new learnable operation that enables an object detector to achieve superior performance when compared to both previous works and traditional RGB images.
• Score: 11.991240159496833
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Images fed to a deep neural network have in general undergone several handcrafted image signal processing (ISP) operations, all of which have been optimized to produce visually pleasing images. In this work, we investigate the hypothesis that the intermediate representation of visually pleasing images is sub-optimal for downstream computer vision tasks compared to the RAW image representation. We suggest that the operations of the ISP instead should be optimized towards the end task, by learning the parameters of the operations jointly during training. We extend previous works on this topic and propose a new learnable operation that enables an object detector to achieve superior performance when compared to both previous works and traditional RGB images. In experiments on the open PASCALRAW dataset, we empirically confirm our hypothesis.

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