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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

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

Grayscale images are fundamental to many image processing applications like data compression, feature extraction, printing and tone mapping. However, some image information is lost when converting from color to grayscale. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Prasoon Ambalathankandy , Yafei Ou , Masayuki Ikebe

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

Image colorization is inherently an ill-posed problem with multi-modal uncertainty. Previous methods leverage the deep neural network to map input grayscale images to plausible color outputs directly. Although these learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jheng-Wei Su , Hung-Kuo Chu , Jia-Bin Huang

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

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

This paper investigates into the colorization problem which converts a grayscale image to a colorful version. This is a very difficult problem and normally requires manual adjustment to achieve artifact-free quality. For instance, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zezhou Cheng , Qingxiong Yang , Bin Sheng

Decolorization is the process to convert a color image or video to its grayscale version, and it has received great attention in recent years. An ideal decolorization algorithm should preserve the original color contrast as much as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Wei Hu , Wei Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Du

A novel method to convert color/multi-spectral images to gray-level images is introduced to increase the performance of document binarization methods. The method uses the distribution of the pixel data of the input document image in a color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Reza Farrahi Moghaddam , Shaohua Chen , Rachid Hedjam , Mohamed Cheriet

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

Image colorization, the task of adding colors to grayscale images, has been the focus of significant research efforts in computer vision in recent years for its various application areas such as color restoration and automatic animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Changyuan Qiu , Hangrui Cao , Qihan Ren , Ruiyu Li , Yuqing Qiu

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

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

Colorization of grayscale images has been a hot topic in computer vision. Previous research mainly focuses on producing a colored image to match the original one. However, since many colors share the same gray value, an input grayscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yun Cao , Zhiming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

We propose a framework for automatic colorization that allows for iterative editing and modifications. The core of our framework lies in an imagination module: by understanding the content within a grayscale image, we utilize a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiaoyan Cong , Yue Wu , Qifeng Chen , Chenyang Lei

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

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

Automatic colorization is the process of adding color to greyscale images. We condition this process on language, allowing end users to manipulate a colorized image by feeding in different captions. We present two different architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Varun Manjunatha , Mohit Iyyer , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Larry Davis

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
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