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For realistic and vivid colorization, generative priors have recently been exploited. However, such generative priors often fail for in-the-wild complex images due to their limited representation space. In this paper, we propose BigColor, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Geonung Kim , Kyoungkook Kang , Seongtae Kim , Hwayoon Lee , Sehoon Kim , Jonghyun Kim , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho

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

We propose the first deep learning approach for exemplar-based local colorization. Given a reference color image, our convolutional neural network directly maps a grayscale image to an output colorized image. Rather than using hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Mingming He , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Pedro V. Sander , Lu Yuan

We propose a deep learning approach for user-guided image colorization. The system directly maps a grayscale image, along with sparse, local user "hints" to an output colorization with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Rather than using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Phillip Isola , Xinyang Geng , Angela S. Lin , Tianhe Yu , Alexei A. Efros

Exemplar-based colourisation aims to add plausible colours to a grayscale image using the guidance of a colour reference image. Most of the existing methods tackle the task as a style transfer problem, using a convolutional neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Marc Gorriz Blanch , Issa Khalifeh , Alan Smeaton , Noel O'Connor , Marta Mrak

Numerous methods have been proposed to transform color and grayscale images to their single bit-per-pixel binary counterparts. Commonly, the goal is to enhance specific attributes of the original image to make it more amenable for analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shumeet Baluja

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

Colorization is a computer-aided process, which aims to give color to a gray image or video. It can be used to enhance black-and-white images, including black-and-white photos, old-fashioned films, and scientific imaging results. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shiguang Liu

Automatic colourisation of grey-scale images is the process of creating a full-colour image from the grey-scale prior. It is an ill-posed problem, as there are many plausible colourisations for a given grey-scale prior. The current SOTA in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Seán Mullery , Paul F. Whelan

Colorizing a given gray-level image is an important task in the media and advertising industry. Due to the ambiguity inherent to colorization (many shades are often plausible), recent approaches started to explicitly model diversity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Safa Messaoud , David Forsyth , Alexander G. Schwing

Image forensics aims to detect the manipulation of digital images. Currently, splicing detection, copy-move detection and image retouching detection are drawing much attentions from researchers. However, image editing techniques develop…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yuanfang Guo , Xiaochun Cao , Wei Zhang , Rui Wang

Colorization is a well-explored problem in the domains of image and video processing. However, extending colorization to 3D scenes presents significant challenges. Recent Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and Gaussian-Splatting(3DGS) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ankit Dhiman , R Srinath , Srinjay Sarkar , Lokesh R Boregowda , R Venkatesh Babu

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 learning and colorization are hot spots in multimedia domain. Inspired by the learning capability of humans, in this paper, we propose an automatic colorization method with a learning framework. This method can be viewed as a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Zhenfeng Xue , Jiandang Yang , Jie Ren , Yong Liu

Language-based colorization produces plausible and visually pleasing colors under the guidance of user-friendly natural language descriptions. Previous methods implicitly assume that users provide comprehensive color descriptions for most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zheng Chang , Shuchen Weng , Peixuan Zhang , Yu Li , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Exemplar-based image colorization aims to colorize a grayscale image using a reference color image, ensuring that reference colors are applied to corresponding input regions based on their semantic similarity. To achieve accurate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Satoshi Kosugi

We treat the problem of color enhancement as an image translation task, which we tackle using both supervised and unsupervised learning. Unlike traditional image to image generators, our translation is performed using a global parameterized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Yoav Chai , Raja Giryes , Lior Wolf

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 propose a new algorithm for color transfer between images that have perceptually similar semantic structures. We aim to achieve a more accurate color transfer that leverages semantically-meaningful dense correspondence between images. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Mingming He , Jing Liao , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Pedro V. Sander

We present a novel usage of Transformers to make image classification interpretable. Unlike mainstream classifiers that wait until the last fully connected layer to incorporate class information to make predictions, we investigate a…