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Image matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior…

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Color and structure are the two pillars that combine to give an image its meaning. Interested in critical structures for neural network recognition, we isolate the influence of colors by limiting the color space to just a few bits, and find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yunzhong Hou , Liang Zheng , Stephen Gould

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

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

Image colorization aims to add color information to a grayscale image in a realistic way. Recent methods mostly rely on deep learning strategies. While learning to automatically colorize an image, one can define well-suited objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Coloma Ballester , Aurélie Bugeau , Hernan Carrillo , Michaël Clément , Rémi Giraud , Lara Raad , Patricia Vitoria

Measuring the colorfulness of a natural or virtual scene is critical for many applications in image processing field ranging from capturing to display. In this paper, we propose the first deep learning-based colorfulness estimation metric.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Emin Zerman , Aakanksha Rana , Aljosa Smolic

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

We propose the first accurate digitization and color reconstruction process for historical lenticular film that is robust to artifacts. Lenticular films emerged in the 1920s and were one of the first technologies that permitted to capture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Stefano D'Aronco , Giorgio Trumpy , David Pfluger , Jan Dirk Wegner

Image color harmonization algorithm aims to automatically match the color distribution of foreground and background images captured in different conditions. Previous deep learning based models neglect two issues that are critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Ben Xue , Shenghui Ran , Quan Chen , Rongfei Jia , Binqiang Zhao , Xing Tang

A single color image can contain many cues informative towards different aspects of local geometric structure. We approach the problem of monocular depth estimation by using a neural network to produce a mid-level representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Ayan Chakrabarti , Jingyu Shao , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Recent progress on many imaging and vision tasks has been driven by the use of deep feed-forward neural networks, which are trained by propagating gradients of a loss defined on the final output, back through the network up to the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Ayan Chakrabarti

Image colorization aims to bring colors back to grayscale images. Automatic image colorization methods, which requires no additional guidance, struggle to generate high-quality images due to color ambiguity, and provides limited user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifan Li , Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu

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

In the practical application of restoring low-resolution gray-scale images, we generally need to run three separate processes of image colorization, super-resolution, and dows-sampling operation for the target device. However, this pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Jiangning Zhang , Chao Xu , Jian Li , Yue Han , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

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

This paper addresses the automatic colorization problem, which converts a gray-scale image to a colorized one. Recent deep-learning approaches can colorize automatically grayscale images. However, when it comes to different scenes which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Youssef Mourchid , Marc Donias , Yannick Berthoumieu , Mohamed Najim

Image classification is a fundamental application in computer vision. Recently, deeper networks and highly connected networks have shown state of the art performance for image classification tasks. Most datasets these days consist of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Shreyank N Gowda , Chun Yuan

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

Hyperspectral cameras face challenging spatial-spectral resolution trade-offs and are more affected by shot noise than RGB photos taken over the same total exposure time. Here, we present a colorization algorithm to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 M. Kerem Aydin , Qi Guo , Emma Alexander

Image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination in a composite image to make it harmonious. The existing harmonization methods can only produce one deterministic result for a composite image, ignoring that a composite image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xinhao Tao , Tianyuan Qiu , Junyan Cao , Li Niu