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Robotic painting has been a subject of interest among both artists and roboticists since the 1970s. Researchers and interdisciplinary artists have employed various painting techniques and human-robot collaboration models to create visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Ardavan Bidgoli , Manuel Ladron De Guevara , Cinnie Hsiung , Jean Oh , Eunsu Kang

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

Japanese comics (called manga) are traditionally created in monochrome format. In recent years, in addition to monochrome comics, full color comics, a more attractive medium, have appeared. Unfortunately, color comics require manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yugo Shimizu , Ryosuke Furuta , Delong Ouyang , Yukinobu Taniguchi , Ryota Hinami , Shonosuke Ishiwatari

We propose a new method for producing color images from sketches. Current solutions in sketch colorization either necessitate additional user instruction or are restricted to the "paired" translation strategy. We leverage semantic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Samet Hicsonmez , Nermin Samet , Emre Akbas , Pinar Duygulu

One way illustrators engage in disciplined drawing - the process of drawing to improve technical skills - is through studying and replicating reference images. However, for many novice and intermediate digital artists, knowing how to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiaju Ma , Chau Vu , Asya Lyubavina , Catherine Liu , Jingyi Li

Recent generative image editing methods adopt layered representations to mitigate the entangled nature of raster images and improve controllability, typically relying on object-based segmentation. However, such strategies may fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tianyu Zhang , Dongchi Li , Keiichi Sawada , Haoran Xie

Image colorization estimates RGB colors for grayscale images or video frames to improve their aesthetic and perceptual quality. Over the last decade, deep learning techniques for image colorization have significantly progressed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Tahir , Chongyi Li , Ajmal Mian , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Abdul Wahab Muzaffar

We introduce a framework that automates the transformation of static anime illustrations into manipulatable 2.5D models. Current professional workflows require tedious manual segmentation and the artistic ``hallucination'' of occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jian Lin , Chengze Li , Haoyun Qin , Kwun Wang Chan , Yanghua Jin , Hanyuan Liu , Stephen Chun Wang Choy , Xueting Liu

Recently, with the revolutionary neural style transferring methods, creditable paintings can be synthesized automatically from content images and style images. However, when it comes to the task of applying a painting's style to an anime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Lvmin Zhang , Yi Ji , Xin Lin

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

Image learning and colorization are hot spots in multimedia domain. Inspired by the learning capability of humans, in this paper, we propose an automatic colorization method with a learning framework. This method can be viewed as a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Zhenfeng Xue , Jiandang Yang , Jie Ren , Yong Liu

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

The process of painting fosters creativity and rational planning. However, existing generative AI mostly focuses on producing visually pleasant artworks, without emphasizing the painting process. We introduce a novel task, Collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Nicola Dall'Asen , Willi Menapace , Elia Peruzzo , Enver Sangineto , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Diffusion models have recently demonstrated their effectiveness in generating extremely high-quality images and are now utilized in a wide range of applications, including automatic sketch colorization. Although many methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Dingkun Yan , Liang Yuan , Erwin Wu , Yuma Nishioka , Issei Fujishiro , Suguru Saito

We introduce a new method for generating color images from sketches or edge maps. Current methods either require some form of additional user-guidance or are limited to the "paired" translation approach. We argue that segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Samet Hicsonmez , Nermin Samet , Emre Akbas , Pinar Duygulu

This paper tackles the automatic colorization task of a sketch image given an already-colored reference image. Colorizing a sketch image is in high demand in comics, animation, and other content creation applications, but it suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Junsoo Lee , Eungyeup Kim , Yunsung Lee , Dongjun Kim , Jaehyuk Chang , Jaegul Choo

Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ahmed Samir Ragab , Shereen Aly Taie , Howida Youssry Abdelnaby

Line art is arguably one of the fundamental and versatile modes of expression. We propose a pipeline for a robot to look at a grayscale line art and redraw it. The key novel elements of our pipeline are: a) we propose a novel task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Raghav Brahmadesam Venkataramaiyer , Subham Kumar , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Drawing images of characters with desired poses is an essential but laborious task in anime production. Assisting artists to create is a research hotspot in recent years. In this paper, we present the Collaborative Neural Rendering (CoNR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zuzeng Lin , Ailin Huang , Zhewei Huang

One tough problem of image inpainting is to restore complex structures in the corrupted regions. It motivates interactive image inpainting which leverages additional hints, e.g., sketches, to assist the inpainting process. Sketch is simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Chang Liu , Shunxin Xu , Jialun Peng , Kaidong Zhang , Dong Liu