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We aim to address a significant but understudied problem in the anime industry, namely the inbetweening of cartoon line drawings. Inbetweening involves generating intermediate frames between two black-and-white line drawings and is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Li Siyao , Tianpei Gu , Weiye Xiao , Henghui Ding , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Automatic video colorization is inherently an ill-posed problem because each monochrome frame has multiple optional color candidates. Previous exemplar-based video colorization methods restrict the user's imagination due to the elaborate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zheng Chang , Shuchen Weng , Huan Ouyang , Yu Li , Si Li , Boxin Shi

It is a time-consuming and tedious work for manually colorizing anime line drawing images, which is an essential stage in cartoon animation creation pipeline. Reference-based line drawing colorization is a challenging task that relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yu Cao , Xiangqiao Meng , P. Y. Mok , Xueting Liu , Tong-Yee Lee , Ping Li

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

Video colour editing is a crucial task for content creation, yet existing solutions either require painstaking frame-by-frame manipulation or produce unrealistic results with temporal artefacts. We present a practical, training-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Chaitat Utintu , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

Video inpainting aims to fill spatio-temporal "corrupted" regions with plausible content. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to find correspondences from neighbouring frames to faithfully hallucinate the unknown content. Current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Xueyan Zou , Linjie Yang , Ding Liu , Yong Jae Lee

We present a unified controllable video generation approach AnimateAnything that facilitates precise and consistent video manipulation across various conditions, including camera trajectories, text prompts, and user motion annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Guojun Lei , Chi Wang , Hong Li , Rong Zhang , Yikai Wang , Weiwei Xu

Recent generative image editing methods adopt layered representations to mitigate the entangled nature of raster images and improve controllability, typically relying on object-based segmentation. However, such strategies may fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tianyu Zhang , Dongchi Li , Keiichi Sawada , Haoran Xie

In this work, we present a method for automatic colorization of grayscale videos. The core of the method is a Generative Adversarial Network that is trained and tested on sequences of frames in a sliding window manner. Network convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Panagiotis Kouzouglidis , Giorgos Sfikas , Christophoros Nikou

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

Traditional image stitching focuses on a single panorama frame without considering the spatial-temporal consistency in videos. The straightforward image stitching approach will cause temporal flicking and color inconstancy when it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Lu Yang , Zhenglun Kong , Ting Li , Xinyi Bai , Zhiye Lin , Hong Cheng

In this paper, we present a color transfer algorithm to colorize a broad range of gray images without any user intervention. The algorithm uses a machine learning-based approach to automatically colorize grayscale images. The algorithm uses…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Raj Kumar Gupta , Alex Yong-Sang Chia , Deepu Rajan , Huang Zhiyong

This work proposes a complete methodology to colorize images of Fakemon, anime-style monster-like creatures. In addition, we propose algorithms to extract the line art from colorized images as well as to extract color hints. Our work is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Erick Oliveira Rodrigues , Esteban Clua , Giovani Bernardes Vitor

In this paper, we present a novel approach that uses deep learning techniques for colorizing grayscale images. By utilizing a pre-trained convolutional neural network, which is originally designed for image classification, we are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Tung Nguyen , Kazuki Mori , Ruck Thawonmas

Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

We introduce a new video synthesis task: synthesizing time lapse videos depicting how a given painting might have been created. Artists paint using unique combinations of brushes, strokes, and colors. There are often many possible ways to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Amy Zhao , Guha Balakrishnan , Kathleen M. Lewis , Frédo Durand , John V. Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

Generating long, cohesive video stories with consistent characters is a significant challenge for current text-to-video AI. We introduce a method that approaches video generation in a filmmaker-like manner. Instead of creating a video in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Chayan Jain , Rishant Sharma , Archit Garg , Ishan Bhanuka , Pratik Narang , Dhruv Kumar

Image stylization has seen significant advancement and widespread interest over the years, leading to the development of a multitude of techniques. Extending these stylization techniques, such as Neural Style Transfer (NST), to videos is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Sumit Shekhar , Max Reimann , Moritz Hilscher , Amir Semmo , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Grayscale image colorization is a fascinating application of AI for information restoration. The inherently ill-posed nature of the problem makes it even more challenging since the outputs could be multi-modal. The learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Himanshu Kumar , Abeer Banerjee , Sumeet Saurav , Sanjay Singh

Automatic generation of textual video descriptions that are time-aligned with video content is a long-standing goal in computer vision. The task is challenging due to the difficulty of bridging the semantic gap between the visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Meera Hahn , Nataniel Ruiz , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , James M. Rehg