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While many image colorization algorithms have recently shown the capability of producing plausible color versions from gray-scale photographs, they still suffer from the problems of context confusion and edge color bleeding. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jiaojiao Zhao , Li Liu , Cees G. M. Snoek , Jungong Han , Ling Shao

We propose a new paradigm to automatically generate training data with accurate labels at scale using the text-to-image synthesis frameworks (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc.). The proposed approach1 decouples training data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yunhao Ge , Jiashu Xu , Brian Nlong Zhao , Neel Joshi , Laurent Itti , Vibhav Vineet

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

Text-to-image generation is conducted through Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or transformer models. However, the current challenge lies in accurately generating images based on textual descriptions, especially in scenarios where the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yang Li , Huaqiang Jiang , Yangkai Wu

Motivated by the recent progress in generative models, we introduce a model that generates images from natural language descriptions. The proposed model iteratively draws patches on a canvas, while attending to the relevant words in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Elman Mansimov , Emilio Parisotto , Jimmy Lei Ba , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Emotion alignment between music and palettes is crucial for effective multimedia content, yet misalignment creates confusion that weakens the intended message. However, existing methods often generate only a single dominant color, missing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jiayun Hu , Yueyi He , Tianyi Liang , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

Automatic image synthesis research has been rapidly growing with deep networks getting more and more expressive. In the last couple of years, we have observed images of digits, indoor scenes, birds, chairs, etc. being automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Levent Karacan , Zeynep Akata , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

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

We present a method for generating colored 3D shapes from natural language. To this end, we first learn joint embeddings of freeform text descriptions and colored 3D shapes. Our model combines and extends learning by association and metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Kevin Chen , Christopher B. Choy , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang , Thomas Funkhouser , Silvio Savarese

Deep networks have shown impressive performance in the image restoration tasks, such as image colorization. However, we find that previous approaches rely on the digital representation from single color model with a specific mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiangcheng Du , Zhao Zhou , Yanlong Wang , Zhuoyao Wang , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

Generative adversarial networks has emerged as a defacto standard for image translation problems. To successfully drive such models, one has to rely on additional networks e.g., discriminators and/or perceptual networks. Training these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Constantin Seibold , Haroon Khalid , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Existing approaches for color-concept association typically rely on query-based image referencing, and color extraction from image references. However, these approaches are effective only for common concepts, and are vulnerable to unstable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yihan Hou , Xingchen Zeng , Yusong Wang , Manling Yang , Xiaojiao Chen , Wei Zeng

Recently, realistic image generation using deep neural networks has become a hot topic in machine learning and computer vision. Images can be generated at the pixel level by learning from a large collection of images. Learning to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yifan Liu , Zengchang Qin , Zhenbo Luo , Hua Wang

Text-to-image generation has recently seen remarkable success, granting users with the ability to create high-quality images through the use of text. However, contemporary methods face challenges in capturing the precise semantics conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shay Shomer-Chai , Wenxuan Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Color selection plays a critical role in graphic document design and requires sufficient consideration of various contexts. However, recommending appropriate colors which harmonize with the other colors and textual contexts in documents is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Qianru Qiu , Xueting Wang , Mayu Otani

In creativity support and computational co-creativity contexts, the task of discovering appropriate prompts for use with text-to-image generative models remains difficult. In many cases the creator wishes to evoke a certain impression with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Francisco Ibarrola , Rohan Lulham , Kazjon Grace

While diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models provide a simple and powerful way to generate images, guiding this generation remains a challenge. For concepts that are difficult to describe through language, users may struggle to create…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-11 John Joon Young Chung , Eytan Adar

Recently, generative adversarial networks have gained a lot of popularity for image generation tasks. However, such models are associated with complex learning mechanisms and demand very large relevant datasets. This work borrows concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Shagan Sah , Chi Zhang , Thang Nguyen , Dheeraj Kumar Peri , Ameya Shringi , Raymond Ptucha

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…

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