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Color-to-Grayscale: Does the Method Matter in Image Recognition? Christopher Kanan*, Garrison W. Cottrell Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America Abstract In image recognition it is often assumed the method used to convert color images to grayscale has little impact on recognition performance. We compare thirteen different grayscale algorithms with four types of image descriptors and demonstrate that this assumption is wrong: not all color-to-grayscale algorithms work equally well, even when using descriptors that are robust to changes in illumination. These methods are tested using a modern descriptor-based image recognition framework, on face, object, and texture datasets, with relatively few training instances. We identify a simple method that generally works best for face and object recognition, and two that work well for recognizing textures. Citation: Kanan C, Cottrell GW (2012) Color-to-Grayscale: Does the Method Matter in Image Recognition? PLoS ONE 7(1): e29740. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0029740 Editor: Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel Aviv University, Israel Received July 13, 2011; Accepted December 4, 2011; Published January 10, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Kanan, Cottrell. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation (Perceptual Expertise Network, I. Gauthier, PI), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) (grant #SBE-0542013 to the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, G.W. Cottrell, PI). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, de