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Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ahmed Samir Ragab , Shereen Aly Taie , Howida Youssry Abdelnaby

End-to-end manga generation is a structured visual storytelling task that requires story decomposition, recurring character and scene grounding, page layout design, panel rendering, page composition, and lettering. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Muyao Wang , Zeke Xie , Yanhao Chen , Lixin Xiu , Hideki Nakayama

Video colorization task has recently attracted wide attention. Recent methods mainly work on the temporal consistency in adjacent frames or frames with small interval. However, it still faces severe challenge of the inconsistency between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yu Zhang , Siqi Chen , Mingdao Wang , Xianlin Zhang , Chuang Zhu , Yue Zhang , Xueming Li

In the past few years, there has been a dramatic growth in e-manga (electronic Japanese-style comics). Faced with the booming demand for manga research and the large amount of unlabeled manga data, we raised a new task, called unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Zhimin Zhang , Zheng Wang , Wei Hu

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

This paper reviews published research in the field of computer-aided colorization technology. We argue that the colorization task originates from computer graphics, prospers by introducing computer vision, and tends to the fusion of vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yu Cao , Xin Duan , Xiangqiao Meng , P. Y. Mok , Ping Li , Tong-Yee Lee

There is a delicate balance between automating repetitive work in creative domains while staying true to an artist's vision. The animation industry regularly outsources large animation workloads to foreign countries where labor is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Harrish Thasarathan , Mehran Ebrahimi

As a popular comic style, manga offers a unique impression by utilizing a rich set of bitonal patterns, or screentones, for illustration. However, screentones can easily be contaminated with visual-unpleasant aliasing and/or blurriness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Minshan Xie , Menghan Xia , Xueting Liu , Tien-Tsin Wong

Comics have long been a popular form of storytelling, offering visually engaging narratives that captivate audiences worldwide. However, the visual nature of comics presents a significant barrier for visually impaired readers, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ragav Sachdeva , Andrew Zisserman

Designing a 3D game scene is a tedious task that often requires a substantial amount of work. Typically, this task involves synthesis, coloring, and placement of 3D models within the game scene. To lessen this workload, we can apply machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Ivan Kostiuk , Przemysław Stachura , Sławomir K. Tadeja , Tomasz Trzciński , Przemysław Spurek

In this project we have designed and described a model which colourize a gray-scale image, with no human intervention. We propose a fully automatic process of colouring and re-colouring faded or gray-scale image with vibrant and pragmatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Aditya Parikh

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

Colorization is the method of converting an image in grayscale to a fully color image. There are multiple methods to do the same. Old school methods used machine learning algorithms and optimization techniques to suggest possible colors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shreyank Narayana Gowda

The topic of facial landmark detection has been widely covered for pictures of human faces, but it is still a challenge for drawings. Indeed, the proportions and symmetry of standard human faces are not always used for comics or mangas. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Marco Stricker , Olivier Augereau , Koichi Kise , Motoi Iwata

-This paper presents a semi automatic method used to segment color documents into different uniform color plans. The practical application is dedicated to administrative documents segmentation. In these documents, like in many other cases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Stéphane Bres , Véronique Eglin , Vincent Poulain

Homographies -- a mathematical formalism for relating image points across different camera viewpoints -- are at the foundations of geometric methods in computer vision and are used in geometric camera calibration, image registration, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Graham D. Finlayson , Han Gong , Robert B. Fisher

Due to the significant time and effort required for handcrafting translations, most manga never leave the domestic Japanese market. Automatic manga translation is a promising potential solution. However, it is a budding and underdeveloped…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Philip Lippmann , Konrad Skublicki , Joshua Tanner , Shonosuke Ishiwatari , Jie Yang

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

We propose the first unified framework UniColor to support colorization in multiple modalities, including both unconditional and conditional ones, such as stroke, exemplar, text, and even a mix of them. Rather than learning a separate model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Zhitong Huang , Nanxuan Zhao , Jing Liao

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