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We develop a fully automatic image colorization system. Our approach leverages recent advances in deep networks, exploiting both low-level and semantic representations. As many scene elements naturally appear according to multimodal color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Gustav Larsson , Michael Maire , Gregory Shakhnarovich

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

There is considerable interest in the task of automatically generating image captions. However, evaluation is challenging. Existing automatic evaluation metrics are primarily sensitive to n-gram overlap, which is neither necessary nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Peter Anderson , Basura Fernando , Mark Johnson , Stephen Gould

Cartoonization is a task that renders natural photos into cartoon styles. Previous deep cartoonization methods only have focused on end-to-end translation, which may hinder editability. Instead, we propose a novel solution with editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Namhyuk Ahn , Patrick Kwon , Jihye Back , Kibeom Hong , Seungkwon Kim

The colorization of grayscale images is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions. In this paper, we propose an adversarial learning colorization approach coupled with semantic information. A generative network is used to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Patricia Vitoria , Lara Raad , Coloma Ballester

Measuring the colorfulness of a natural or virtual scene is critical for many applications in image processing field ranging from capturing to display. In this paper, we propose the first deep learning-based colorfulness estimation metric.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Emin Zerman , Aakanksha Rana , Aljosa Smolic

This paper tackles the challenge of colorizing grayscale images. We take a deep convolutional neural network approach, and choose to take the angle of classification, working on a finite set of possible colors. Similarly to a recent paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Vincent Billaut , Matthieu de Rochemonteix , Marc Thibault

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

Colorization methods using deep neural networks have become a recent trend. However, most of them do not allow user inputs, or only allow limited user inputs (only global inputs or only local inputs), to control the output colorful images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Yi Xiao , Peiyao Zhou , Yan Zheng

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

The goal of 2D human pose estimation (HPE) is to localize anatomical landmarks, given an image of a person in a pose. SOTA techniques make use of thousands of labeled figures (finetuning transformers or training deep CNNs), acquired using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nobline Yoo , Olga Russakovsky

A synchronizing word of a deterministic automaton is a word in the alphabet of colors of its edges that maps the automaton to a single state. A coloring of edges of a directed graph is synchronizing if the coloring turns the graph into a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-11-24 A. N. Trahtman , T. Bauer , N. Cohen

In this work recent advances in conditional adversarial networks are investigated to develop an end-to-end architecture based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to directly map realistic colours to an input greyscale image. Observing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-06 Marc Górriz , Marta Mrak , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

The success of deep learning in computer vision is rooted in the ability of deep networks to scale up model complexity as demanded by challenging visual tasks. As complexity is increased, so is the need for large amounts of labeled data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Gustav Larsson

Recent advances in AI enable the automatic generation of visualizations directly from textual prompts using agentic workflows. However, visualizations produced via one-shot generative methods often suffer from insufficient quality,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Roxana Bujack , Li-Ta Lo , Ethan Stam , Ayan Biswas , David Rogers

Generative adversarial networks conditioned on textual image descriptions are capable of generating realistic-looking images. However, current methods still struggle to generate images based on complex image captions from a heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Tobias Hinz , Stefan Heinrich , Stefan Wermter

Color is a critical design factor for web pages, affecting important factors such as viewer emotions and the overall trust and satisfaction of a website. Effective coloring requires design knowledge and expertise, but if this process could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kotaro Kikuchi , Naoto Inoue , Mayu Otani , Edgar Simo-Serra , Kota Yamaguchi

Image compositing is a method used to generate realistic yet fake imagery by inserting contents from one image to another. Previous work in compositing has focused on improving appearance compatibility of a user selected foreground segment…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Fuwen Tan , Crispin Bernier , Benjamin Cohen , Vicente Ordonez , Connelly Barnes

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

Personalized image generation via text prompts has great potential to improve daily life and professional work by facilitating the creation of customized visual content. The aim of image personalization is to create images based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingxiao Li , Tingyu Qu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens