>Any result needs to stand the rigor of peer-review before the said breakthrough can be conclusively proven

Not if you can easily verify the claim is true with sample images (in the situation given). Then you don't need to care for any "peer review".

In the same vein, if I come up with a data structure implementation that is 100x faster than common techniques, it just has to pass a suite of tests. No peer review needed. If some Intel engineer finds a revolutionary, 100% speed improving cache prediction method, ditto. And for lots of other cases. As soon as you check it works, you can start patenting and marketing pronto.