NV12/YUV->RGB colour accuracy and CUDA
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Description
I've noticed some odd colour space conversion issues when using the yuv_to_rgb function in the otherwise very helpful NVDEC tutorial - it seems to be subtly but visibly shifting colours and/or clipping the dynamic range, but I'm not certain why. Originally thought there might be issues between BT.601/BT.709/BT.2020 content, but trying other python functions using those matricies didn't seem to help; it could definitely be my error somewhere, but I wasn't able to get correct colour output on anything that'd been through the implicit NV12->YUV444 conversion step.
Since there's been some discussion on moving the colour space conversion to CUDA anyway, I wanted to flag this implementation in case it's helpful. We ended up seeing a significant speed increase using that rather than applying conversions in tensor format, with all colours coming back exactly as expected.
cc https://github.com/dmlc/decord/issues/283#issuecomment-2151922632
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Research direction
Start with the yuv_to_rgb path used by the NVDEC tutorial and compare its NV12-to-YUV444 and color-space handling with the linked CUDA implementation. Reproduce the reported color shifts and dynamic-range clipping across the cited BT.601, BT.709, and BT.2020 cases; done means accurate output and, if applicable, improved conversion performance.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, pytorch
- Domain
- computer-vision, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100