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We introduce an inversion based method, denoted as IMAge-Guided model INvErsion (IMAGINE), to generate high-quality and diverse images from only a single training sample. We leverage the knowledge of image semantics from a pre-trained…

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In this work, we present Color3D, a highly adaptable framework for colorizing both static and dynamic 3D scenes from monochromatic inputs, delivering visually diverse and chromatically vibrant reconstructions with flexible user-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yecong Wan , Mingwen Shao , Renlong Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

Colorization has attracted increasing interest in recent years. Classic reference-based methods usually rely on external color images for plausible results. A large image database or online search engine is inevitably required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yanze Wu , Xintao Wang , Yu Li , Honglun Zhang , Xun Zhao , Ying Shan

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

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

In recent years, text-driven image editing has made significant progress. However, due to the inherent ambiguity and discreteness of natural language, color editing still faces challenges such as insufficient precision and difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuqi Yang , Dongliang Chang , Yuanchen Fang , Yi-Zhe SonG , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

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

In this paper, a color transfer framework to evoke different emotions for images based on color combinations is proposed. The purpose of this color transfer is to change the "look and feel" of images, i.e., evoking different emotions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Li He , Hairong Qi , Russell Zaretzki

In this paper, we present a fast exemplar-based image colorization approach using color embeddings named Color2Embed. Generally, due to the difficulty of obtaining input and ground truth image pairs, it is hard to train a exemplar-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hengyuan Zhao , Wenhao Wu , Yihao Liu , Dongliang He

Human beings can imagine the colours of a grayscale image with no particular effort thanks to their ability of semantic feature extraction. Can an autonomous system achieve that? Can it hallucinate plausible and vibrant colours? This is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Gian Luca Foresti , Niki Martinel

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

Colorizing a given gray-level image is an important task in the media and advertising industry. Due to the ambiguity inherent to colorization (many shades are often plausible), recent approaches started to explicitly model diversity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Safa Messaoud , David Forsyth , Alexander G. Schwing

Automatic color enhancement is aimed to adaptively adjust photos to expected styles and tones. For current learned methods in this field, global harmonious perception and local details are hard to be well-considered in a single model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Chaowei Shan , Zhizheng Zhang , Zhibo Chen

We present a framework for interactive design of new image stylizations using a wide range of predefined filter blocks. Both novel and off-the-shelf image filtering and rendering techniques are extended and combined to allow the user to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ignacio Garcia-Dorado , Pascal Getreuer , Bartlomiej Wronski , Peyman Milanfar

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

Content creation and image editing can benefit from flexible user controls. A common intermediate representation for conditional image generation is a semantic map, that has information of objects present in the image. When compared to raw…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Chandrakanth Gudavalli , Erik Rosten , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

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

Video colour editing is a crucial task for content creation, yet existing solutions either require painstaking frame-by-frame manipulation or produce unrealistic results with temporal artefacts. We present a practical, training-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Chaitat Utintu , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

We propose a deep learning approach for user-guided image colorization. The system directly maps a grayscale image, along with sparse, local user "hints" to an output colorization with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Rather than using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Phillip Isola , Xinyang Geng , Angela S. Lin , Tianhe Yu , Alexei A. Efros