RAWDet-7: A Multi-Scenario Benchmark for Object Detection and Description on Quantized RAW Images

Mishal Fatima, Shashank Agnihotri, Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota, Michael Moeller, Margret Keuper
2/3/2026
cs.CV

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Most vision models are trained on RGB images processed through ISP pipelines optimized for human perception, which can discard sensor-level information useful for machine reasoning. RAW images preserve unprocessed scene data, enabling models to leverage richer cues for both object detection and object description, capturing fine-grained details, spatial relationships, and contextual information often lost in processed images. To support research in this domain, we introduce RAWDet-7, a large-scale dataset of ~25k training and 7.6k test RAW images collected across diverse cameras, lighting conditions, and environments, densely annotated for seven object categories following MS-COCO and LVIS conventions. In addition, we provide object-level descriptions derived from the corresponding high-resolution sRGB images, facilitating the study of object-level information preservation under RAW image processing and low-bit quantization. The dataset allows evaluation under simulated 4-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit quantization, reflecting realistic sensor constraints, and provides a benchmark for studying detection performance, description quality & detail, and generalization in low-bit RAW image processing. Dataset & code upon acceptance.

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@article{fatima2026rawdet,
  title  = {RAWDet-7: A Multi-Scenario Benchmark for Object Detection and Description on Quantized RAW Images},
  author = {Mishal Fatima and Shashank Agnihotri and Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota and Michael Moeller and Margret Keuper},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.03760},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03760v2}
}

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