Raw Instinct: Trust Your Classifiers and Skip the Conversion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14439v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:45:41 GMT
• Title: Raw Instinct: Trust Your Classifiers and Skip the Conversion
• Authors: Christos Kantas, Bjørk Antoniussen, Mathias V. Andersen, Rasmus Munksø, Shobhit Kotnala, Simon B. Jensen, Andreas Møgelmose, Lau Nørgaard, Thomas B. Moeslund,
• Abstract summary: We show that a sufficiently advanced classifier can yield equivalent results on RAW input compared to RGB. We furthermore show that the total computation time from RAW image data to classification results for RAW images can be up to 8.46 times faster than RGB.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Using RAW-images in computer vision problems is surprisingly underexplored considering that converting from RAW to RGB does not introduce any new capture information. In this paper, we show that a sufficiently advanced classifier can yield equivalent results on RAW input compared to RGB and present a new public dataset consisting of RAW images and the corresponding converted RGB images. Classifying images directly from RAW is attractive, as it allows for skipping the conversion to RGB, lowering computation time significantly. Two CNN classifiers are used to classify the images in both formats, confirming that classification performance can indeed be preserved. We furthermore show that the total computation time from RAW image data to classification results for RAW images can be up to 8.46 times faster than RGB. These results contribute to the evidence found in related works, that using RAW images as direct input to computer vision algorithms looks very promising.

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