Ah, I think you work in the same industry as me, machine vision. I completely agree with you, most applications use grayscale images unless it’s color-based application.

Which vision library are you using? I’m using Halcon by MVTec.

I used to work in industrial automation, I was mostly making the process control equipment that your stuff would plug into. PLCs and whatnot. We had a close relationship with Cognex, I don't remember the exact details of their software stack.