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Given a grayscale photograph as input, this paper attacks the problem of hallucinating a plausible color version of the photograph. This problem is clearly underconstrained, so previous approaches have either relied on significant user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Richard Zhang , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros

A novel method of color image enhancement is proposed, in which three or four color channels of the image are transformed to one channel 2-D grayscale image. This paper describes different models of such transformations in the RGB and other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Artyom M Grigoryan , Aparna John , Sos S Agaian

Colorization is a computer-aided process, which aims to give color to a gray image or video. It can be used to enhance black-and-white images, including black-and-white photos, old-fashioned films, and scientific imaging results. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shiguang Liu

We propose a novel approach to automatically produce multiple colorized versions of a grayscale image. Our method results from the observation that the task of automated colorization is relatively easy given a low-resolution version of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Sergio Guadarrama , Ryan Dahl , David Bieber , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathon Shlens , Kevin Murphy

We propose Generative Probabilistic Image Colorization, a diffusion-based generative process that trains a sequence of probabilistic models to reverse each step of noise corruption. Given a line-drawing image as input, our method suggests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Chie Furusawa , Shinya Kitaoka , Michael Li , Yuri Odagiri

In this paper, we present a fast exemplar-based image colorization approach using color embeddings named Color2Embed. Generally, due to the difficulty of obtaining input and ground truth image pairs, it is hard to train a exemplar-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hengyuan Zhao , Wenhao Wu , Yihao Liu , Dongliang He

Deep networks have shown impressive performance in the image restoration tasks, such as image colorization. However, we find that previous approaches rely on the digital representation from single color model with a specific mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiangcheng Du , Zhao Zhou , Yanlong Wang , Zhuoyao Wang , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

We propose the first deep learning approach for exemplar-based local colorization. Given a reference color image, our convolutional neural network directly maps a grayscale image to an output colorized image. Rather than using hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Mingming He , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Pedro V. Sander , Lu Yuan

We introduce a new technique that automatically generates diverse, visually compelling stylizations for a photograph in an unsupervised manner. We achieve this by learning style ranking for a given input using a large photo collection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Joon-Young Lee , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , In So Kweon

Most image-search approaches today are based on the text based tags associated with the images which are mostly human generated and are subject to various kinds of errors. The results of a query to the image database thus can often be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Ankit Garg , Rahul Dwivedi , Krishna Asawa

This paper presents an algorithm that transforms color visual images, like photographs or paintings, into tactile graphics. In the algorithm, the edges of objects are detected and colors of the objects are estimated. Then, the edges and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Artur Rataj

Recent colorization works implicitly predict the semantic information while learning to colorize black-and-white images. Consequently, the generated color is easier to be overflowed, and the semantic faults are invisible. As a human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Man M. Ho , Lu Zhang , Alexander Raake , Jinjia Zhou

Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs) are widely renowned for their ability to analyze the surface structures of microscopic objects, offering the capability to capture highly detailed, yet only grayscale, images. To create more expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Takuma Nishimura , Andreea Dogaru , Martin Oeggerli , Bernhard Egger

Intrinsic image decomposition is a severely under-constrained problem. User interactions can help to reduce the ambiguity of the decomposition considerably. The traditional way of user interaction is to draw scribbles that indicate regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Yuanliu Liu , Zejian Yuan

This paper proposes a novel approach to generate multiple color palettes that reflect the semantics of input text and then colorize a given grayscale image according to the generated color palette. In contrast to existing approaches, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Hyojin Bahng , Seungjoo Yoo , Wonwoong Cho , David K. Park , Ziming Wu , Xiaojuan Ma , Jaegul Choo

By taking into account the properties and limitations of the human visual system, images can be more efficiently compressed, colors more accurately reproduced, prints better rendered. To show all these advantages in this paper new adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jaswinder Singh Dilawari , Ravinder Khanna

Computing the gradient of an image is a common step in computer vision pipelines. The image gradient quantifies the magnitude and direction of edges in an image and is used in creating features for downstream machine learning tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Shouvik Mani

We develop a probabilistic technique for colorizing grayscale natural images. In light of the intrinsic uncertainty of this task, the proposed probabilistic framework has numerous desirable properties. In particular, our model is able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Amelie Royer , Alexander Kolesnikov , Christoph H. Lampert

Image quantization is used in several applications aiming in reducing the number of available colors in an image and therefore its size. De-quantization is the task of reversing the quantization effect and recovering the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Kalliopi Basioti , George V. Moustakides

Image captioning is the process of automatically generating a description of an image in natural language. Image captioning is one of the significant challenges in image understanding since it requires not only recognizing salient objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ghadah Alabduljabbar , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache