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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…

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Image forensics, aiming to ensure the authenticity of the image, has made great progress in dealing with common image manipulation such as copy-move, splicing, and inpainting in the past decades. However, only a few researchers pay…

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Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods…

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Existing approaches for color-concept association typically rely on query-based image referencing, and color extraction from image references. However, these approaches are effective only for common concepts, and are vulnerable to unstable…

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Colorization has attracted increasing interest in recent years. Classic reference-based methods usually rely on external color images for plausible results. A large image database or online search engine is inevitably required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yanze Wu , Xintao Wang , Yu Li , Honglun Zhang , Xun Zhao , Ying Shan

Adjusting the photo color to associate with some design elements is an essential way for a graphic design to effectively deliver its message and make it aesthetically pleasing. However, existing tools and previous works face a dilemma…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhenwei Wang , Nanxuan Zhao , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

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

Color propagation aims to extend local color edits to similar regions across the input image. Conventional approaches often rely on low-level visual cues such as color, texture, or lightness to measure pixel similarity, making it difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zi-Yu Zhang , Bing-Feng Seng , Ya-Feng Du , Kang Li , Zhe-Cheng Wang , Zheng-Jun Du

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

Image-to-image translation has recently received significant attention due to advances in deep learning. Most works focus on learning either a one-to-one mapping in an unsupervised way or a many-to-many mapping in a supervised way. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Liqian Ma , Xu Jia , Stamatios Georgoulis , Tinne Tuytelaars , Luc Van Gool

In the practical application of restoring low-resolution gray-scale images, we generally need to run three separate processes of image colorization, super-resolution, and dows-sampling operation for the target device. However, this pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Jiangning Zhang , Chao Xu , Jian Li , Yue Han , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Text-to-image generation has recently seen remarkable success, granting users with the ability to create high-quality images through the use of text. However, contemporary methods face challenges in capturing the precise semantics conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shay Shomer-Chai , Wenxuan Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

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

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

Recent advancements in text-guided image editing have achieved notable success by leveraging natural language prompts for fine-grained semantic control. However, certain editing semantics are challenging to specify precisely using textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Haoguang Lu , Jiacheng Chen , Zhenguo Yang , Aurele Tohokantche Gnanha , Fu Lee Wang , Li Qing , Xudong Mao

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

Dense correspondence across semantically related images has been extensively studied, but still faces two challenges: 1) large variations in appearance, scale and pose exist even for objects from the same category, and 2) labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Taihong Xiao , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Video colorization task has recently attracted wide attention. Recent methods mainly work on the temporal consistency in adjacent frames or frames with small interval. However, it still faces severe challenge of the inconsistency between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yu Zhang , Siqi Chen , Mingdao Wang , Xianlin Zhang , Chuang Zhu , Yue Zhang , Xueming Li

Colorizing grayscale images offers an engaging visual experience. Existing automatic colorization methods often fail to generate satisfactory results due to incorrect semantic colors and unsaturated colors. In this work, we propose an…

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Since specular reflection often exists in the real captured images and causes deviation between the recorded color and intrinsic color, specular reflection separation can bring advantages to multiple applications that require consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Sijia Wen , Yingqiang Zheng , Feng Lu