New AI system reduces video streaming costs by capturing color only when needed, keeping cameras in grayscale mode otherwise

ColorTrigger uses continuous grayscale video with selective color capture to dramatically reduce power consumption on edge and mobile devices

Research shows that sparse RGB frames combined with temporal grayscale data achieve comparable performance to continuous color capture

The system employs lightweight quadratic programming and dynamic token routing to minimize both sensing and inference costs in real-time

Designed as a training-free trigger for edge deployment, ColorTrigger intelligently detects when color information is actually needed through windowed grayscale affinity analysis