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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

Deep learning methods have shown remarkable performance in image denoising, particularly when trained on large-scale paired datasets. However, acquiring such paired datasets for real-world scenarios poses a significant challenge. Although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Xin Lin , Chao Ren , Xiao Liu , Jie Huang , Yinjie Lei

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

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

In real-world underwater environment, exploration of seabed resources, underwater archaeology, and underwater fishing rely on a variety of sensors, vision sensor is the most important one due to its high information content, non-intrusive,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Nan Wang , Yabin Zhou , Fenglei Han , Haitao Zhu , Jingzheng Yao

The outcome of text recognition for degraded color documents is often unsatisfactory due to interference from various contaminants. To extract information more efficiently for text recognition, document image enhancement and binarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Rui-Yang Ju , KokSheik Wong , Jen-Shiun Chiang

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

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

The advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has brought about completely novel ways of transforming and manipulating pixels in digital images. GAN based techniques such as Image-to-Image translations, DeepFakes, and other automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , Arjuna Flenner , Jawadul H. Bappy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , B. S. Manjunath

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are fundamental to many generative modelling applications, they suffer from numerous issues. In this work, we propose a principled framework to simultaneously mitigate two fundamental issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kwot Sin Lee , Ngoc-Trung Tran , Ngai-Man Cheung

This paper reports on WaterGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) for generating realistic underwater images from in-air image and depth pairings in an unsupervised pipeline used for color correction of monocular underwater images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Jie Li , Katherine A. Skinner , Ryan M. Eustice , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Image inpainting techniques have shown promising improvement with the assistance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) recently. However, most of them often suffered from completed results with unreasonable structure or blurriness. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zheng Hui , Jie Li , Xiumei Wang , Xinbo Gao

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

Colorization is an ambiguous problem, with multiple viable colorizations for a single grey-level image. However, previous methods only produce the single most probable colorization. Our goal is to model the diversity intrinsic to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Aditya Deshpande , Jiajun Lu , Mao-Chuang Yeh , Min Jin Chong , David Forsyth

Given a grayscale photograph, the colorization system estimates a visually plausible colorful image. Conventional methods often use semantics to colorize grayscale images. However, in these methods, only classification semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yuzhi Zhao , Lai-Man Po , Kwok-Wai Cheung , Wing-Yin Yu , Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman

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

Low-light image sequences generally suffer from spatio-temporal incoherent noise, flicker and blurring of moving objects. These artefacts significantly reduce visual quality and, in most cases, post-processing is needed in order to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 N. Anantrasirichai , David Bull

The malicious misuse and widespread dissemination of AI-generated images pose a significant threat to the authenticity of online information. Current detection methods often struggle to generalize to unseen generative models, and the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hanyi Wang , Jun Lan , Yaoyu Kang , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Shilin Wang

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

Image colourisation is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions which depend on the context and object instances present in the input datum. Previous approaches attacked the problem either by requiring intense user interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel