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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

Restoring and inpainting the visual memories that are present, but often impaired, in old photos remains an intriguing but unsolved research topic. Decades-old photos often suffer from severe and commingled degradation such as cracks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Runsheng Xu , Zhengzhong Tu , Yuanqi Du , Xiaoyu Dong , Jinlong Li , Zibo Meng , Jiaqi Ma , Alan Bovik , Hongkai Yu

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

Image colorization estimates RGB colors for grayscale images or video frames to improve their aesthetic and perceptual quality. Over the last decade, deep learning techniques for image colorization have significantly progressed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Tahir , Chongyi Li , Ajmal Mian , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Abdul Wahab Muzaffar

We propose the first accurate digitization and color reconstruction process for historical lenticular film that is robust to artifacts. Lenticular films emerged in the 1920s and were one of the first technologies that permitted to capture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Stefano D'Aronco , Giorgio Trumpy , David Pfluger , Jan Dirk Wegner

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 achieves more and more realistic results with the increasing computation power of recent deep learning techniques. It becomes more difficult to identify the fake colorized images by human eyes. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Weize Quan , Dong-Ming Yan , Kai Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Denis Pellerin

Exemplar learning is a powerful paradigm for discovering visual similarities in an unsupervised manner. In this context, however, the recent breakthrough in deep learning could not yet unfold its full potential. With only a single positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Miguel A. Bautista , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Ekaterina Sutter , Björn Ommer

Color and tone stylization strives to enhance unique themes with artistic color and tone adjustments. It has a broad range of applications from professional image postprocessing to photo sharing over social networks. Mainstream photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Feida Zhu , Yizhou Yu

Recent data-driven image colorization methods have enabled automatic or reference-based colorization, while still suffering from unsatisfactory and inaccurate object-level color control. To address these issues, we propose a new method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jianxin Lin , Peng Xiao , Yijun Wang , Rongju Zhang , Xiangxiang Zeng

Image synthesis has witnessed substantial progress due to the increasing power of generative model. This paper we propose a novel generative approach for exemplar based facial editing in the form of the region inpainting. Our method first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Jingtao Guo , Yi Liu , Zhenzhen Qian , Zuowei Zhou

Variational method and deep learning method are two mainstream powerful approaches to solve inverse problems in computer vision. To take advantages of advanced optimization algorithms and powerful representation ability of deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Qingchao Zhang , Yunmei Chen

Reference-based sketch colorization methods have garnered significant attention for the potential application in animation and digital illustration production. However, most existing methods are trained with image triplets of sketch,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Dingkun Yan , Xinrui Wang , Zhuoru Li , Suguru Saito , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo , Jiaxian Guo

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

Instance segmentation is one of the actively studied research topics in computer vision in which many objects of interest should be separated individually. While many feed-forward networks produce high-quality segmentation on different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Tuan Tran Anh , Khoa Nguyen-Tuan , Tran Minh Quan , Won-Ki Jeong

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision by supervisedly learning strong visual feature representations. However, training CNNs relies heavily on the availability of exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jiabo Huang , Qi Dong , Shaogang Gong , Xiatian Zhu

Deep learning has thrived by training on large-scale datasets. However, in many applications, as for medical image diagnosis, getting massive amount of data is still prohibitive due to privacy, lack of acquisition homogeneity and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Lia Morra , Luca Piano , Fabrizio Lamberti , Tatiana Tommasi

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

Automatic image colourisation is the computer vision research path that studies how to colourise greyscale images (for restoration). Deep learning techniques improved image colourisation yielding astonishing results. These differ by various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Rita Pucci , Niki Martinel

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