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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

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

Colorization is the method of converting an image in grayscale to a fully color image. There are multiple methods to do the same. Old school methods used machine learning algorithms and optimization techniques to suggest possible colors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shreyank Narayana Gowda

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

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

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

Given a grayscale photograph as input, this paper attacks the problem of hallucinating a plausible color version of the photograph. This problem is clearly underconstrained, so previous approaches have either relied on significant user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Richard Zhang , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros

Colorization is an ambiguous problem, with multiple viable colorizations for a single grey-level image. However, previous methods only produce the single most probable colorization. Our goal is to model the diversity intrinsic to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Aditya Deshpande , Jiajun Lu , Mao-Chuang Yeh , Min Jin Chong , David Forsyth

Image colorization, the task of adding colors to grayscale images, has been the focus of significant research efforts in computer vision in recent years for its various application areas such as color restoration and automatic animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Changyuan Qiu , Hangrui Cao , Qihan Ren , Ruiyu Li , Yuqing Qiu

We propose a novel approach to automatically produce multiple colorized versions of a grayscale image. Our method results from the observation that the task of automated colorization is relatively easy given a low-resolution version of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Sergio Guadarrama , Ryan Dahl , David Bieber , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathon Shlens , Kevin Murphy

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

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

Anonymization of medical images is necessary for protecting the identity of the test subjects, and is therefore an essential step in data sharing. However, recent developments in deep learning may raise the bar on the amount of distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 David Abramian , Anders Eklund

In this project we have designed and described a model which colourize a gray-scale image, with no human intervention. We propose a fully automatic process of colouring and re-colouring faded or gray-scale image with vibrant and pragmatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Aditya Parikh

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

In this paper, we present a novel approach that uses deep learning techniques for colorizing grayscale images. By utilizing a pre-trained convolutional neural network, which is originally designed for image classification, we are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Tung Nguyen , Kazuki Mori , Ruck Thawonmas

Multimodal ambiguity and color bleeding remain challenging in colorization. To tackle these problems, we propose a new GAN-based colorization approach PalGAN, integrated with palette estimation and chromatic attention. To circumvent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yi Wang , Menghan Xia , Lu Qi , Jing Shao , Yu Qiao

The problem of image-to-image translation is one that is intruiging and challenging at the same time, for the impact potential it can have on a wide variety of other computer vision applications like colorization, inpainting, segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 BahaaEddin AlAila , Zahra Jandaghi , Abolfazl Farahani , Mohammad Ziad Al-Saad

The Japanese comic format known as Manga is popular all over the world. It is traditionally produced in black and white, and colorization is time consuming and costly. Automatic colorization methods generally rely on greyscale values, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Paulina Hensman , Kiyoharu Aizawa

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
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