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ARXIV:2604.00093 · GENERATIVE IMAGING · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 21:00 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.00093GENERATIVE IMAGINGSUBMITTED 02 APR · 21:00 UTCFRESHNESS STALEDongyoung Kim · Junyong Lee · Abhijith Punnappurath · Mahmoud Afifi · Sangmin Han · Alex Levinshtein · +1 at arXiv
A diffusion-based framework for generating camera raw images from text or sRGB inputs, enabling scalable synthetic data for downstream vision tasks.
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Pain A diffusion-based framework for generating camera raw images from text or sRGB inputs, enabling scalable synthetic data for downstream vision tasks.
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A diffusion-based framework for generating camera raw images from text or sRGB inputs, enabling scalable synthetic data for downstream vision tasks. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale raw…
Cameras capture scene-referred linear raw images, which are processed by onboard image signal processors (ISPs) into display-referred 8-bit sRGB outputs. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale raw datasets…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We demonstrate RawGen's superior performance over traditional inverse-ISP methods that assume a fixed ISP. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public…
Generative Imaging moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A diffusion-based framework for generating camera raw images from text or sRGB inputs, enabling scalable synthetic data for downstream vision tasks.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.00093A diffusion-based framework for generating camera raw images from text or sRGB inputs, enabling scalable synthetic data for downstream vision tasks.
Abstract
Cameras capture scene-referred linear raw images, which are processed by onboard image signal processors (ISPs) into display-referred 8-bit sRGB outputs. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale raw datasets remains a major bottleneck, as existing datasets are limited and tied to specific camera hardware. Generative models offer a promising way to address this scarcity -- however, existing diffusion frameworks are designed to synthesize photo-finished sRGB images rather than physically consistent linear representations. This paper presents RawGen, to our knowledge the first diffusion-based framework enabling text-to-raw generation for arbitrary target cameras, alongside sRGB-to-raw inversion. RawGen leverages the generative priors of large-scale sRGB diffusion models to synthesize physically meaningful linear outputs, such as CIE XYZ or camera-specific raw representations, via specialized processing in latent and pixel spaces. To handle unknown and diverse ISP pipelines and photo-finishing effects in diffusion-model training data, we build a many-to-one inverse-ISP dataset where multiple sRGB renditions of the same scene generated using diverse ISP parameters are anchored to a common scene-referred target. Fine-tuning a conditional denoiser and specialized decoder on this dataset allows RawGen to obtain camera-centric linear reconstructions that effectively invert the rendering pipeline. We demonstrate RawGen's superior performance over traditional inverse-ISP methods that assume a fixed ISP. Furthermore, we show that augmenting training pipelines with RawGen's scalable, text-driven synthetic data can benefit downstream low-level vision tasks.
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A diffusion-based framework for generating camera raw images from text or sRGB inputs, enabling scalable synthetic data for downstream vision tasks. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale raw datasets remains a major bottleneck, as...
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Cameras capture scene-referred linear raw images, which are processed by onboard image signal processors (ISPs) into display-referred 8-bit sRGB outputs. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale raw datasets remains a major bottleneck...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We demonstrate RawGen's superior performance over traditional inverse-ISP methods that assume a fixed ISP. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs pro...
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Generative Imaging moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A diffusion-based framework for generating camera raw images from text or sRGB inputs, enabling scalable synthetic data for downstream vision tasks. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale raw datasets remains a major bottleneck, as existing datasets are limited and tied to specific camera hardware.
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Cameras capture scene-referred linear raw images, which are processed by onboard image signal processors (ISPs) into display-referred 8-bit sRGB outputs. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale raw datasets remains a major bottleneck, as existing datasets are limited and tied to specific camera hardware.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We demonstrate RawGen's superior performance over traditional inverse-ISP methods that assume a fixed ISP. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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Generative Imaging moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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