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Image colorization methods have shown prominent performance on natural images. However, since humans are more sensitive to faces, existing methods are insufficient to meet the demands when applied to facial images, typically showing…

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Supervised learning methods have been suffering from the fact that a large-scale labeled dataset is mandatory, which is difficult to obtain. This has been a more significant issue for fashion compatibility prediction because compatibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ling Xiao , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Grayscale image colorization is a fascinating application of AI for information restoration. The inherently ill-posed nature of the problem makes it even more challenging since the outputs could be multi-modal. The learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Himanshu Kumar , Abeer Banerjee , Sumeet Saurav , Sanjay Singh

We present a novel framework for exemplar based image translation. Recent advanced methods for this task mainly focus on establishing cross-domain semantic correspondence, which sequentially dominates image generation in the manner of local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Chang Jiang , Fei Gao , Biao Ma , Yuhao Lin , Nannan Wang , Gang Xu

Referring image segmentation aims to localize and segment a target object in an image based on a free-form referring expression. The core challenge lies in effectively bridging linguistic descriptions with object-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiachen Li , Hongyun Wang , Jinyu Xu , Wenbo Jiang , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu , Qing Xie , Bolong Zheng

Near-infrared gray images captured together with corresponding visible color images have recently proven useful for image restoration and classification. This paper introduces a new coloring method to add colors to near-infrared gray images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Chang-Hwan Son , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Recently, unsupervised exemplar-based image-to-image translation, conditioned on a given exemplar without the paired data, has accomplished substantial advancements. In order to transfer the information from an exemplar to an input image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Wonwoong Cho , Sungha Choi , David Keetae Park , Inkyu Shin , Jaegul Choo

Implicit representation of an image can map arbitrary coordinates in the continuous domain to their corresponding color values, presenting a powerful capability for image reconstruction. Nevertheless, existing implicit representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Canyu Zhang , Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Song Wang

Automatic colourisation of grey-scale images is an ill-posed multi-modal problem. Where full-reference images exist, objective performance measures rely on pixel-difference techniques such as MSE and PSNR. These measures penalise any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Seán Mullery , Paul F. Whelan

This paper addresses the automatic colorization problem, which converts a gray-scale image to a colorized one. Recent deep-learning approaches can colorize automatically grayscale images. However, when it comes to different scenes which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Youssef Mourchid , Marc Donias , Yannick Berthoumieu , Mohamed Najim

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

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

Structure-guided image completion aims to inpaint a local region of an image according to an input guidance map from users. While such a task enables many practical applications for interactive editing, existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haitian Zheng , Zhe Lin , Jingwan Lu , Scott Cohen , Eli Shechtman , Connelly Barnes , Jianming Zhang , Qing Liu , Yuqian Zhou , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Jiebo Luo

Recent progress in self-supervised representation learning has resulted in models that are capable of extracting image features that are not only effective at encoding image level, but also pixel-level, semantics. These features have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Octave Mariotti , Oisin Mac Aodha , Hakan Bilen

Existing inpainting methods have achieved promising performance in recovering defected images of specific scenes. However, filling holes involving multiple semantic categories remains challenging due to the obscure semantic boundaries and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Zheng Wang , Chia-Wen Lin , Shin'ichi Satoh

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

Example-guided image synthesis has been recently attempted to synthesize an image from a semantic label map and an exemplary image. In the task, the additional exemplary image serves to provide style guidance that controls the appearance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Haitian Zheng , Haofu Liao , Lele Chen , Wei Xiong , Tianlang Chen , Jiebo Luo

To enhance group robustness to spurious correlations, prior work often relies on auxiliary group annotations and assumes identical sets of groups across training and test domains. To overcome these limitations, we propose to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chenruo Liu , Hongjun Liu , Zeyu Lai , Yiqiu Shen , Chen Zhao , Qi Lei

Recently, the application of deep learning in image colorization has received widespread attention. The maturation of diffusion models has further advanced the development of image colorization models. However, current mainstream image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yanru An , Ling Gui , Chunlei Cai , Tianxiao Ye , JIangchao Yao , Guangtao Zhai , Qiang Hu , Xiaoyun Zhang