I love this idea, but can't find anything about it. Is this a neologism you just coined? If so, is there any particular paper or work that led you to think about in those terms?
Yes, I just coined the neologism. It was supposed to be partly sarcastic (why stay at pixels, why not just go fully multimodal and treat the missing channels as missing information?), I am kind of surprised why it got so upvoted.
(IME, often my comments which I think are deep get ignored but silly things, where I was thinking "this is too much trolling or obvious", get upvoted; but don't take it the wrong way, I am flattered you like it.)
Pretending channels can be effectively merged into a single percel vector, that would open up interesting channels beyond human perception even, e.g. lidar. Or it would be interesting to train a model that feels at home in 4D space.
Deep things often, not always, take more attention to appreciate than the superficial. It's a precious resource people are seldom disposed to allocate a lot of when headline-surfing HN.
