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Colours are everywhere. They embody a significant part of human visual perception. In this paper, we explore the paradigm of hallucinating colours from a given gray-scale image. The problem of colourization has been dealt in previous…
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There is a delicate balance between automating repetitive work in creative domains while staying true to an artist's vision. The animation industry regularly outsources large animation workloads to foreign countries where labor is…
In the past few years, there has been a dramatic growth in e-manga (electronic Japanese-style comics). Faced with the booming demand for manga research and the large amount of unlabeled manga data, we raised a new task, called unsupervised…
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