Automatic Image Colorization with Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks

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Main Authors: Qiu, Changyuan, Cao, Hangrui, Ren, Qihan, Li, Ruiyu, Qiu, Yuqing
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author Qiu, Changyuan
Cao, Hangrui
Ren, Qihan
Li, Ruiyu
Qiu, Yuqing
author_facet Qiu, Changyuan
Cao, Hangrui
Ren, Qihan
Li, Ruiyu
Qiu, Yuqing
contents Image colorization, the task of adding colors to grayscale images, has been the focus of significant research efforts in computer vision in recent years for its various application areas such as color restoration and automatic animation colorization [15, 1]. The colorization problem is challenging as it is highly ill-posed with two out of three image dimensions lost, resulting in large degrees of freedom. However, semantics of the scene as well as the surface texture could provide important cues for colors: the sky is typically blue, the clouds are typically white and the grass is typically green, and there are huge amounts of training data available for learning such priors since any colored image could serve as a training data point [20]. Colorization is initially formulated as a regression task[5], which ignores the multi-modal nature of color prediction. In this project, we explore automatic image colorization via classification and adversarial learning. We will build our models on prior works, apply modifications for our specific scenario and make comparisons.
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spellingShingle Automatic Image Colorization with Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks
Qiu, Changyuan
Cao, Hangrui
Ren, Qihan
Li, Ruiyu
Qiu, Yuqing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
Image colorization, the task of adding colors to grayscale images, has been the focus of significant research efforts in computer vision in recent years for its various application areas such as color restoration and automatic animation colorization [15, 1]. The colorization problem is challenging as it is highly ill-posed with two out of three image dimensions lost, resulting in large degrees of freedom. However, semantics of the scene as well as the surface texture could provide important cues for colors: the sky is typically blue, the clouds are typically white and the grass is typically green, and there are huge amounts of training data available for learning such priors since any colored image could serve as a training data point [20]. Colorization is initially formulated as a regression task[5], which ignores the multi-modal nature of color prediction. In this project, we explore automatic image colorization via classification and adversarial learning. We will build our models on prior works, apply modifications for our specific scenario and make comparisons.
title Automatic Image Colorization with Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05068