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Automatic colourisation of grey-scale images is the process of creating a full-colour image from the grey-scale prior. It is an ill-posed problem, as there are many plausible colourisations for a given grey-scale prior. The current SOTA in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Seán Mullery , Paul F. Whelan

We develop a probabilistic technique for colorizing grayscale natural images. In light of the intrinsic uncertainty of this task, the proposed probabilistic framework has numerous desirable properties. In particular, our model is able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Amelie Royer , Alexander Kolesnikov , Christoph H. Lampert

Color and tone stylization strives to enhance unique themes with artistic color and tone adjustments. It has a broad range of applications from professional image postprocessing to photo sharing over social networks. Mainstream photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Feida Zhu , Yizhou Yu

Colorization of gray-scale images relies on prior color information. Examplar-based methods use a color image as source of such information. Then the colors of the source image are transferred to the gray-scale image. In the literature,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Johannes Persch , Fabien Pierre , Gabriele Steidl

The search for image compression optimization techniques is a topic of constant interest both in and out of academic circles. One method that shows promise toward future improvements in this field is image colorization since image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ian Tassin , Kristen Goebel , Brittany Lasher

Imaging through diffusers presents a challenging problem with various digital image reconstruction solutions demonstrated to date using computers. We present a computer-free, all-optical image reconstruction method to see through random…

Non-photorealistic rendering techniques work on image features and often manipulate a set of characteristics such as edges and texture to achieve a desired depiction of the scene. Most computational photography methods decompose an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Akshay Gadi Patil , Shanmuganathan Raman

While many image colorization algorithms have recently shown the capability of producing plausible color versions from gray-scale photographs, they still suffer from limited semantic understanding. To address this shortcoming, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Jiaojiao Zhao , Jungong Han , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek

We propose a novel deep network architecture for grayscale and color image denoising that is based on a non-local image model. Our motivation for the overall design of the proposed network stems from variational methods that exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Decolorization is the process to convert a color image or video to its grayscale version, and it has received great attention in recent years. An ideal decolorization algorithm should preserve the original color contrast as much as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Wei Hu , Wei Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Du

Colorization is a process that converts a grayscale image into a color one that looks as natural as possible. Over the years this task has received a lot of attention. Existing colorization methods rely on different color spaces: RGB, YUV,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Coloma Ballester , Aurélie Bugeau , Hernan Carrillo , Michaël Clément , Rémi Giraud , Lara Raad , Patricia Vitoria

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

This paper introduces a novel method for image colorization that utilizes a color transformer and generative adversarial networks (GANs) to address the challenge of generating visually appealing colorized images. Conventional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Hamza Shafiq , Bumshik Lee

How does one adapt a pre-trained visual model to novel downstream tasks without task-specific finetuning or any model modification? Inspired by prompting in NLP, this paper investigates visual prompting: given input-output image example(s)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Amir Bar , Yossi Gandelsman , Trevor Darrell , Amir Globerson , Alexei A. Efros

Recent data-driven image colorization methods have enabled automatic or reference-based colorization, while still suffering from unsatisfactory and inaccurate object-level color control. To address these issues, we propose a new method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jianxin Lin , Peng Xiao , Yijun Wang , Rongju Zhang , Xiangxiang Zeng

Automatic image colourisation is the computer vision research path that studies how to colourise greyscale images (for restoration). Deep learning techniques improved image colourisation yielding astonishing results. These differ by various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Rita Pucci , Niki Martinel

In this work we describe a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to accurately predict the scene illumination. Taking image patches as input, the CNN works in the spatial domain without using hand-crafted features that are employed by most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Simone Bianco , Claudio Cusano , Raimondo Schettini

In this work recent advances in conditional adversarial networks are investigated to develop an end-to-end architecture based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to directly map realistic colours to an input greyscale image. Observing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-06 Marc Górriz , Marta Mrak , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

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

We use large amounts of unlabeled video to learn models for visual tracking without manual human supervision. We leverage the natural temporal coherency of color to create a model that learns to colorize gray-scale videos by copying colors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Carl Vondrick , Abhinav Shrivastava , Alireza Fathi , Sergio Guadarrama , Kevin Murphy