Real-time user-guided image colorization with learned deep priors

R Zhang, JY Zhu, P Isola, X Geng, AS Lin, T Yu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
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 transformer

M Kumar, D Weissenborn, N Kalchbrenner - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We present the Colorization Transformer, a novel approach for diverse high fidelity image
colorization based on self-attention. Given a grayscale image, the colorization proceeds in …

Let there be color! joint end-to-end learning of global and local image priors for automatic image colorization with simultaneous classification

S Iizuka, E Simo-Serra, H Ishikawa - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel technique to automatically colorize grayscale images that combines
both global priors and local image features. Based on Convolutional Neural Networks, our …

Deep exemplar-based colorization

M He, D Chen, J Liao, PV Sander, L Yuan - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We propose the first deep learning approach for exemplar-based local colorization. Given a
reference color image, our convolutional neural network directly maps a grayscale image to …

[HTML][HTML] A review of image and video colorization: From analogies to deep learning

SY Chen, JQ Zhang, YY Zhao, PL Rosin, YK Lai, L Gao - Visual Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Image colorization is a classic and important topic in computer graphics, where the aim is to
add color to a monochromatic input image to produce a colorful result. In this survey, we …

Deep colorization

Z Cheng, Q Yang, B Sheng - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2015 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Learning representations for automatic colorization

G Larsson, M Maire, G Shakhnarovich - … 11–14, 2016, Proceedings, Part IV …, 2016 - Springer
We develop a fully automatic image colorization system. Our approach leverages recent
advances in deep networks, exploiting both low-level and semantic representations. As …

Towards vivid and diverse image colorization with generative color prior

Y Wu, X Wang, Y Li, H Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Chromagan: Adversarial picture colorization with semantic class distribution

P Vitoria, L Raad, C Ballester - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Deep exemplar-based video colorization

B Zhang, M He, J Liao, PV Sander… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper presents the first end-to-end network for exemplar-based video colorization. The
main challenge is to achieve temporal consistency while remaining faithful to the reference …