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Compared to color images captured by conventional RGB cameras, monochrome images usually have better signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and richer textures due to its higher quantum efficiency. It is thus natural to apply a mono-color dual-camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ze-Hua Sheng , Hui-Liang Shen , Bo-Wen Yao , Huaqi Zhang

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

Microscopy images are powerful tools and widely used in the majority of research areas, such as biology, chemistry, physics and materials fields by various microscopies (scanning electron microscope (SEM), atomic force microscope (AFM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Israel Goytom , Qin Wang , Tianxiang Yu , Kunjie Dai , Kris Sankaran , Xinfei Zhou , Dongdong Lin

Image colorization aims to bring colors back to grayscale images. Automatic image colorization methods, which requires no additional guidance, struggle to generate high-quality images due to color ambiguity, and provides limited user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifan Li , Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu

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

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

Colorization of gray-scale images relies on prior color information. Examplar-based methods use a color image as source of such information. Then the colors of the source image are transferred to the gray-scale image. In the literature,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Johannes Persch , Fabien Pierre , Gabriele Steidl

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

Colorization is a process that converts a grayscale image into a color one that looks as natural as possible. Over the years this task has received a lot of attention. Existing colorization methods rely on different color spaces: RGB, YUV,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Coloma Ballester , Aurélie Bugeau , Hernan Carrillo , Michaël Clément , Rémi Giraud , Lara Raad , Patricia Vitoria

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

The success of deep learning in computer vision is rooted in the ability of deep networks to scale up model complexity as demanded by challenging visual tasks. As complexity is increased, so is the need for large amounts of labeled data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Gustav Larsson

We present a novel approach of color transfer between images by exploring their high-level semantic information. First, we set up a database which consists of the collection of downloaded images from the internet, which are segmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Asad Khan , Muhammad Ahmad , Yudong Guo , Ligang Liu

Decolorization is the process to convert a color image or video to its grayscale version, and it has received great attention in recent years. An ideal decolorization algorithm should preserve the original color contrast as much as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Wei Hu , Wei Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Du

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 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

In this work, we propose a fast superpixel-based color transfer method (SCT) between two images. Superpixels enable to decrease the image dimension and to extract a reduced set of color candidates. We propose to use a fast approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rémi Giraud , Vinh-Thong Ta , Nicolas Papadakis

Visual localization is one of the most important components for robotics and autonomous driving. Recently, inspiring results have been shown with CNN-based methods which provide a direct formulation to end-to-end regress 6-DoF absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Mi Tian , Qiong Nie , Hao Shen , Xiahua Xia

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 present a novel approach that combines machine learning based interactive image segmentation using supervoxels with a clustering method for the automated identification of similarly colored images in large data sets which enables a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Friebel , Tim Johann , Dirk Drasdo , Stefan Hoehme

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