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A popular method for enhancing images involves learning the style of a professional photo editor using pairs of training images comprised of the original input with the editor-enhanced version. When manipulating images, many editing tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 David Serrano-Lozano , Luis Herranz , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Accurately reporting what objects are depicted in an image is largely a solved problem in automatic caption generation. The next big challenge on the way to truly humanlike captioning is being able to incorporate the context of the image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Sofia Nikiforova , Tejaswini Deoskar , Denis Paperno , Yoad Winter

Sparse coding, which is the decomposition of a vector using only a few basis elements, is widely used in machine learning and image processing. The basis set, also called dictionary, is learned to adapt to specific data. This approach has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Louise Benoît , Julien Mairal , Francis Bach , Jean Ponce

Automatic colorization of grayscale image has been a challenging task. Previous research have applied supervised methods in conquering this problem [ 1]. In this paper, we reproduces a GAN-based coloring model, and experiments one of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chen Liang , Yunchen Sheng , Yichen Mo

Image compositing is a task of combining regions from different images to compose a new image. A common use case is background replacement of portrait images. To obtain high quality composites, professionals typically manually perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 He Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Federico Perazzi , Zhe Lin , Vishal M. Patel

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), it has become a common practice to train models on synthetic data due to data-scarcity and privacy leakage problems. Owing to massive and diverse information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shiye Lei , Hao Chen , Sen Zhang , Bo Zhao , Dacheng Tao

While many image colorization algorithms have recently shown the capability of producing plausible color versions from gray-scale photographs, they still suffer from limited semantic understanding. To address this shortcoming, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Jiaojiao Zhao , Jungong Han , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek

Grayscale images are fundamental to many image processing applications like data compression, feature extraction, printing and tone mapping. However, some image information is lost when converting from color to grayscale. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Prasoon Ambalathankandy , Yafei Ou , Masayuki Ikebe

This paper tackles the challenge of colorizing grayscale images. We take a deep convolutional neural network approach, and choose to take the angle of classification, working on a finite set of possible colors. Similarly to a recent paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Vincent Billaut , Matthieu de Rochemonteix , Marc Thibault

Human beings can imagine the colours of a grayscale image with no particular effort thanks to their ability of semantic feature extraction. Can an autonomous system achieve that? Can it hallucinate plausible and vibrant colours? This is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Gian Luca Foresti , Niki Martinel

We address the problem of image color quantization using a Maximum Entropy based approach. Focusing on pixel mapping we argue that adding thermal noise to the system yields better visual impressions than that obtained from a simple energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-15 Samy Lakhal , Alexandre Darmon , Michael Benzaquen

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

We present a novel technique to automatically colorize grayscale images that combine the U-Net model and Fusion Layer features. This approach allows the model to learn the colorization of images from pre-trained U-Net. Moreover, the Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Muhammad Hisyam Zayd , Novanto Yudistira , Randy Cahya Wihandika

We present the Colorization Transformer, a novel approach for diverse high fidelity image colorization based on self-attention. Given a grayscale image, the colorization proceeds in three steps. We first use a conditional autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Manoj Kumar , Dirk Weissenborn , Nal Kalchbrenner

Image compositing is a key step in film making and image editing that aims to segment a foreground object and combine it with a new background. Automatic image compositing can be done easily in a studio using chroma-keying when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Guanqing Hu , James J. Clark

Image captioning implies automatically generating textual descriptions of images based only on the visual input. Although this has been an extensively addressed research topic in recent years, not many contributions have been made in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Eva Cetinic

Image enhancement is an important stage in the image-processing domain. The most known image enhancement method is the histogram equalization. This method is an automated one, and realizes a simultaneous modification for brightness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Vasile Patrascu

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Color and tone stylization strives to enhance unique themes with artistic color and tone adjustments. It has a broad range of applications from professional image postprocessing to photo sharing over social networks. Mainstream photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Feida Zhu , Yizhou Yu