Selective operating mode switching for visible and infrared imaging

One or more processors comprising processing circuitry to:

• operate an image processing pipeline of an ego-machine in a first imaging switching mode that toggles between an RGB imaging mode and an infrared (IR) imaging mode at a fixed rate;
• and
• based at least on a speed or a state of the ego-machine, switch to operating the image processing pipeline in a second imaging switching mode that toggles between the RGB imaging mode and the IR imaging mode based at least on an amount of detected light intensity;
• select, while operating in at least one individual imaging switching mode of the first imaging switching mode or the second imaging switching mode, one or more machine learning models that are applicable to the at least one individual imaging switching mode from a plurality of supported machine learning models;
• and
• perform one or more detection tasks using the one or more machine learning models.