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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Shirsendu Sukanta Halder , Kanjar De , Partha Pratim Roy

Over the last decade, the process of automatic image colorization has been of significant interest for several application areas including restoration of aged or degraded images. This problem is highly ill-posed due to the large degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kamyar Nazeri , Eric Ng , Mehran Ebrahimi

Automatic colorization of grayscale image has been a challenging task. Previous research have applied supervised methods in conquering this problem [ 1]. In this paper, we reproduces a GAN-based coloring model, and experiments one of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chen Liang , Yunchen Sheng , Yichen Mo

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Han Wang , Xinning Chai , Yiwen Wang , Yuhong Zhang , Rong Xie , Li Song

We present a novel technique to automatically colorize grayscale images that combine the U-Net model and Fusion Layer features. This approach allows the model to learn the colorization of images from pre-trained U-Net. Moreover, the Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Muhammad Hisyam Zayd , Novanto Yudistira , Randy Cahya Wihandika

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

Image compositing is a task of combining regions from different images to compose a new image. A common use case is background replacement of portrait images. To obtain high quality composites, professionals typically manually perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 He Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Federico Perazzi , Zhe Lin , Vishal M. Patel

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

Colorization of grayscale images has been a hot topic in computer vision. Previous research mainly focuses on producing a colored image to match the original one. However, since many colors share the same gray value, an input grayscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yun Cao , Zhiming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

We propose the first deep learning approach for exemplar-based local colorization. Given a reference color image, our convolutional neural network directly maps a grayscale image to an output colorized image. Rather than using hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Mingming He , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Pedro V. Sander , Lu Yuan

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

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

Image colorization achieves more and more realistic results with the increasing computation power of recent deep learning techniques. It becomes more difficult to identify the fake colorized images by human eyes. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Weize Quan , Dong-Ming Yan , Kai Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Denis Pellerin

Colorization is a computer-aided process, which aims to give color to a gray image or video. It can be used to enhance black-and-white images, including black-and-white photos, old-fashioned films, and scientific imaging results. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shiguang Liu

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

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

Automatic image colorization is inherently an ill-posed problem with uncertainty, which requires an accurate semantic understanding of scenes to estimate reasonable colors for grayscale images. Although recent interaction-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Pengcheng Zhao , Yanxiang Chen , Yang Zhao , Zhao Zhang

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

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 colorization is a well-known problem in computer vision. However, due to the ill-posed nature of the task, image colorization is inherently challenging. Though several attempts have been made by researchers to make the colorization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Subhankar Ghosh , Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein