java - most accurate way to read pixels from BufferedImage

Question

I was just wondering what the best way to read pixels from a BufferedImage. I want the pixels contained in a int[].

Here is my code right now:

try {
        BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(new File("C:\\Users\\Hardish\\Pictures\\test.png"));
        BufferedImage intimg = Util.convertBufferedImage(img, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
        int[] pixels = ((DataBufferInt)intimg.getRaster().getDataBuffer()).getData();
        int co = Util.randomColor(255).getRGB();
        if(co < 0)
            co = -co;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for(int i = 0; i < pixels.length; i++){
            Pixel px = new Pixel(Util.convertPixel(i, img.getWidth()), pixels[i]);
            sb.append(px.toCompactString(true));
            pixels[i] += co;
        }
        ImageIO.write(intimg, "jpg", new FileOutputStream("C:\\Users\\Hardish\\Pictures\\test.jpg"));
        SaveHandler.saveCompressed(sb.toString(), "C:\\Users\\Hardish\\Pictures\\test.dat");
        SaveHandler.saveString(sb.toString(), "C:\\Users\\Hardish\\Pictures\\test.sdat");
        String pixDat = (String)(SaveHandler.readCompressed("C:\\Users\\Hardish\\Pictures\\test.dat"));
        String[] pixs = pixDat.split(Pixel.PIXEL_SEPARATOR);
        int[] pixelsRead = new int[pixs.length];
        for(int i = 0; i < pixelsRead.length; i++){
            pixelsRead[i] = Pixel.parseCompactPixel(pixs[i], true).val;
        }
        BufferedImage img2 = new BufferedImage(img.getWidth(), img.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
        int[] pixelsW = ((DataBufferInt)img2.getRaster().getDataBuffer()).getData();
        for(int i = 0; i < pixelsW.length; i++){
            pixelsW[i] = pixelsRead[i];
        }
        ImageIO.write(img2, "jpg", new FileOutputStream("C:\\Users\\Hardish\\Pictures\\testRead.jpg"));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Here is the original:

Here is the change the pixels output:

Here is the read from file output: