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Recent text-to-image generation models have demonstrated impressive capability of generating text-aligned images with high fidelity. However, generating images of novel concept provided by the user input image is still a challenging task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yufan Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Tong Sun , Jinhui Xu

Exemplar-based image colorization aims to colorize a grayscale image using a reference color image, ensuring that reference colors are applied to corresponding input regions based on their semantic similarity. To achieve accurate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Satoshi Kosugi

In this work, we focus on a challenging task: synthesizing multiple imaginary videos given a single image. Major problems come from high dimensionality of pixel space and the ambiguity of potential motions. To overcome those problems, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Baoyang Chen , Wenmin Wang , Jinzhuo Wang , Xiongtao Chen

We developed "Comicolorization", a semi-automatic colorization system for manga images. Given a monochrome manga and reference images as inputs, our system generates a plausible color version of the manga. This is the first work to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Chie Furusawa , Kazuyuki Hiroshiba , Keisuke Ogaki , Yuri Odagiri

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

Despite the existence of numerous colorization methods, several limitations still exist, such as lack of user interaction, inflexibility in local colorization, unnatural color rendering, insufficient color variation, and color overflow. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhexin Liang , Zhaochen Li , Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

Current image transformation and recoloring algorithms try to introduce artistic effects in the photographed images, based on user input of target image(s) or selection of pre-designed filters. These manipulations, although intended to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Afsheen Rafaqat Ali , Mohsen Ali

Existing image inpainting methods often produce artifacts when dealing with large holes in real applications. To address this challenge, we propose an iterative inpainting method with a feedback mechanism. Specifically, we introduce a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yu Zeng , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Jianming Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Huchuan Lu

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

It is easy for people to imagine what a man with pink hair looks like, even if they have never seen such a person before. We call the ability to create images of novel semantic concepts visually grounded imagination. In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Ramakrishna Vedantam , Ian Fischer , Jonathan Huang , Kevin Murphy

This paper delves into the text-guided image editing task, focusing on modifying a reference image according to user-specified textual feedback to embody specific attributes. Despite recent advancements, a persistent challenge remains that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Lidong Zeng , Zhedong Zheng , Yinwei Wei , Tat-seng Chua

Language-guided image editing has achieved great success recently. In this paper, for the first time, we investigate exemplar-guided image editing for more precise control. We achieve this goal by leveraging self-supervised training to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Binxin Yang , Shuyang Gu , Bo Zhang , Ting Zhang , Xuejin Chen , Xiaoyan Sun , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Imagination is one of the most important factors which makes an artistic painting unique and impressive. With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, more and more researchers try to create painting with AI technology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Ruixue Liu , Baoyang Chen , Xiaoyu Guo , Yan Dai , Meng Chen , Zhijie Qiu , Xiaodong He

Renovating the memories in old photos is an intriguing research topic in computer vision fields. These legacy images often suffer from severe and commingled degradations such as cracks, noise, and color-fading, while lack of large-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Runsheng Xu , Zhengzhong Tu , Yuanqi Du , Xiaoyu Dong , Jinlong Li , Zibo Meng , Jiaqi Ma , Hongkai Yu

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Jun Lan , Yan Hong , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Li Niu

This paper reviews published research in the field of computer-aided colorization technology. We argue that the colorization task originates from computer graphics, prospers by introducing computer vision, and tends to the fusion of vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yu Cao , Xin Duan , Xiangqiao Meng , P. Y. Mok , Ping Li , Tong-Yee Lee

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

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

To achieve visual consistency in composite images, recent image harmonization methods typically summarize the appearance pattern of global background and apply it to the global foreground without location discrepancy. However, for a real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ziyue Zhu , Zhao Zhang , Zheng Lin , Ruiqi Wu , Zhi Chai , Chun-Le Guo