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This paper proposes a method for transferring the RGB color spectrum to near-infrared (NIR) images using deep multi-scale convolutional neural networks. A direct and integrated transfer between NIR and RGB pixels is trained. The trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Matthias Limmer , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Colorization of grayscale images has been a hot topic in computer vision. Previous research mainly focuses on producing a colored image to match the original one. However, since many colors share the same gray value, an input grayscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yun Cao , Zhiming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

The colorization of grayscale images is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions. In this paper, we propose an adversarial learning colorization approach coupled with semantic information. A generative network is used to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Patricia Vitoria , Lara Raad , Coloma Ballester

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

Image Inpainting is one of the very popular tasks in the field of image processing with broad applications in computer vision. In various practical applications, images are often deteriorated by noise due to the presence of corrupted, lost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Harsh Patel , Amey Kulkarni , Shivam Sahni , Udit Vyas

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xiaoyang Kang , Tao Yang , Wenqi Ouyang , Peiran Ren , Lingzhi Li , Xuansong Xie

Image inpainting is an effective method to enhance distorted digital images. Different inpainting methods use the information of neighboring pixels to predict the value of missing pixels. Recently deep neural networks have been used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mohammad H. Givkashi , Mahshid Hadipour , Arezoo PariZanganeh , Zahra Nabizadeh , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Image colourisation is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions which depend on the context and object instances present in the input datum. Previous approaches attacked the problem either by requiring intense user interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel

Deep neural networks have been widely used in image denoising during the past few years. Even though they achieve great success on this problem, they are computationally inefficient which makes them inappropriate to be implemented in mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Lu Xu , Jiawei Zhang , Xuanye Cheng , Feng Zhang , Xing Wei , Jimmy Ren

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

Image colorization is a well-known problem in computer vision. However, due to the ill-posed nature of the task, image colorization is inherently challenging. Though several attempts have been made by researchers to make the colorization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Subhankar Ghosh , Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Colorization methods using deep neural networks have become a recent trend. However, most of them do not allow user inputs, or only allow limited user inputs (only global inputs or only local inputs), to control the output colorful images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Yi Xiao , Peiyao Zhou , Yan Zheng

We develop a fully automatic image colorization system. Our approach leverages recent advances in deep networks, exploiting both low-level and semantic representations. As many scene elements naturally appear according to multimodal color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Gustav Larsson , Michael Maire , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Deep neural networks have been successfully applied to problems such as image segmentation, image super-resolution, coloration and image inpainting. In this work we propose the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for image inpainting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Pascal Laube , Michael Grunwald , Matthias O. Franz , Georg Umlauf

This paper introduces a novel method for image colorization that utilizes a color transformer and generative adversarial networks (GANs) to address the challenge of generating visually appealing colorized images. Conventional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Hamza Shafiq , Bumshik Lee

Compositing is one of the most common operations in photo editing. To generate realistic composites, the appearances of foreground and background need to be adjusted to make them compatible. Previous approaches to harmonize composites have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Xiaohui Shen , Zhe Lin , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Xin Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The colorization of grayscale images is a complex and subjective task with significant challenges. Despite recent progress in employing large-scale datasets with deep neural networks, difficulties with controllability and visual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nir Zabari , Aharon Azulay , Alexey Gorkor , Tavi Halperin , Ohad Fried

Image colorization adds color to grayscale images. It not only increases the visual appeal of grayscale images, but also enriches the information contained in scientific images that lack color information. Most existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Yingzhen Yang , Xinqi Chu , Tian-Tsong Ng , Alex Yong-Sang Chia , Shuicheng Yan , Thomas S. Huang

Image colorization is inherently an ill-posed problem with multi-modal uncertainty. Previous methods leverage the deep neural network to map input grayscale images to plausible color outputs directly. Although these learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jheng-Wei Su , Hung-Kuo Chu , Jia-Bin Huang