Yes, but many of those complex state of the art thing are comprised of parts that began as ideas like this. All ideas have to start somewhere.
You don't have to have a idea that beats everything in all circumstances. It doesn't even have to be better on even one thing to potentially be useful to others. Reading this article gave me some ideas related to a supplementary autoencoder I had been working with, where encode is ( A + B ) -> Latent, decode is (A+Latent) -> B . Which is essentially the same problem If you consider the A to be the Luma, B to be the Chroma, and the compressed Chroma to be the Latent.
In that respect, I found it useful to see a perspective on an analogous problem. That makes the "Is it useful for others" not only answerable, but true.
You don't have to have a idea that beats everything in all circumstances. It doesn't even have to be better on even one thing to potentially be useful to others. Reading this article gave me some ideas related to a supplementary autoencoder I had been working with, where encode is ( A + B ) -> Latent, decode is (A+Latent) -> B . Which is essentially the same problem If you consider the A to be the Luma, B to be the Chroma, and the compressed Chroma to be the Latent.
In that respect, I found it useful to see a perspective on an analogous problem. That makes the "Is it useful for others" not only answerable, but true.