Colorization by Example

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2005
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The Eurographics Association
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We present a new method for colorizing grayscale images by transferring color from a segmented example image. Rather than relying on a series of independent pixel-level decisions, we develop a new strategy that attempts to account for the higher-level context of each pixel. The colorizations generated by our approach exhibit a much higher degree of spatial consistency, compared to previous automatic color transfer methods [WAM02]. We also demonstrate that our method requires considerably less manual effort than previous user-assisted colorization methods [LLW04]. Given a grayscale image to colorize, we first determine for each pixel which example segment it should learn its color from. This is done automatically using a robust supervised classification scheme that analyzes the low-level feature space defined by small neighborhoods of pixels in the example image. Next, each pixel is assigned a color from the appropriate region using a neighborhood matching metric, combined with spatial filtering for improved spatial coherence. Each color assignment is associated with a confidence value, and pixels with a sufficiently high confidence level are provided as micro-scribbles to the optimization-based colorization algorithm of Levin et al. [LLW04], which produces the final complete colorization of the image.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/201-210
, booktitle = {
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2005)
}, editor = {
Kavita Bala and Philip Dutre
}, title = {{
Colorization by Example
}}, author = {
Irony, Revital
and
Cohen-Or, Daniel
and
Lischinski, Dani
}, year = {
2005
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1727-3463
}, ISBN = {
3-905673-23-1
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/201-210
} }
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