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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

Line art colorization plays a crucial role in hand-drawn animation production, where digital artists manually colorize segments using a paint bucket tool, guided by RGB values from character color design sheets. This process, often called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuekun Dai , Qinyue Li , Shangchen Zhou , Yihang Luo , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

Greyscale image colorization for applications in image restoration has seen significant improvements in recent years. Many of these techniques that use learning-based methods struggle to effectively colorize sparse inputs. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Harrish Thasarathan , Kamyar Nazeri , Mehran Ebrahimi

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

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

We introduce a framework that automates the transformation of static anime illustrations into manipulatable 2.5D models. Current professional workflows require tedious manual segmentation and the artistic ``hallucination'' of occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jian Lin , Chengze Li , Haoyun Qin , Kwun Wang Chan , Yanghua Jin , Hanyuan Liu , Stephen Chun Wang Choy , Xueting Liu

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

Manga, a widely celebrated Japanese comic art form, is renowned for its diverse narratives and distinct artistic styles. However, the inherently visual and intricate structure of Manga, which comprises images housing multiple panels, poses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Conghao Tom Shen , Violet Yao , Yixin Liu

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

Over the last decade, the process of automatic image colorization has been of significant interest for several application areas including restoration of aged or degraded images. This problem is highly ill-posed due to the large degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kamyar Nazeri , Eric Ng , Mehran Ebrahimi

Animation colorization plays a vital role in animation production, yet existing methods struggle to achieve color accuracy and temporal consistency. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{AnimeColor}, a novel reference-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuhong Zhang , Liyao Wang , Han Wang , Danni Wu , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Li Song

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

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

While manga is a popular entertainment form, creating manga is tedious, especially adding screentones to the created sketch, namely manga screening. Unfortunately, there is no existing method that tailors for automatic manga screening,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jian Lin , Xueting Liu , Chengze Li , Minshan Xie , Tien-Tsin Wong

Manga, as a widely beloved form of entertainment around the world, have shifted from paper to electronic screens with the proliferation of handheld devices. However, as the demand for image quality increases with screen development,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chih-Yuan Yao , Husan-Ting Chou , Yu-Sheng Lin , Kuo-wei Chen

The process of adapting or repurposing manga pages is a time-consuming task that requires manga artists to manually work on every single screentone region and apply new patterns to create novel screentones across multiple panels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Minshan Xie , Chengze Li , Tien-Tsin Wong

Image learning and colorization are hot spots in multimedia domain. Inspired by the learning capability of humans, in this paper, we propose an automatic colorization method with a learning framework. This method can be viewed as a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Zhenfeng Xue , Jiandang Yang , Jie Ren , Yong Liu

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

Cartoonization is a task that renders natural photos into cartoon styles. Previous deep cartoonization methods only have focused on end-to-end translation, which may hinder editability. Instead, we propose a novel solution with editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Namhyuk Ahn , Patrick Kwon , Jihye Back , Kibeom Hong , Seungkwon Kim

Automatic high-quality rendering of anime scenes from complex real-world images is of significant practical value. The challenges of this task lie in the complexity of the scenes, the unique features of anime style, and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yuxin Jiang , Liming Jiang , Shuai Yang , Chen Change Loy