Automatic Colorization of Grayscale Images Using Generative Adversarial Networks

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Haji Esmaeili Mohammad Mahdi; MONTAZER GHOLAMALI

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Journal: SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING Year:2019 | Volume:16 | Issue:1 (39) Page(s): 57-74

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Automatic Colorization of Grayscale Images Using Generative Adversarial Networks

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Haji Esmaeili Mohammad Mahdi | MONTAZER GHOLAMALI | Issue Writer Certificate

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colorizationQ1

gray scale imagesQ1

deep neural networksQ1

generative adversarial networksQ1

image information retrievalQ1

Abstract

Automatic colorization of gray scale images poses a unique challenge in Information Retrieval. The goal of this field is to colorize images which have lost some color channels (such as the RGB channels or the AB channels in the LAB color space) while only having the brightness channel available, which is usually the case in a vast array of old photos and portraits. Having the ability to colorize such images would give us a multitude of possibilities ranging from colorizing old and historic images to providing alternate colorizations for real images or artistic creations. Be that as it may, the progress in this field is trivial compared to what the professionals are able to do using special-purpose applications such as Photoshop or GIMP. On the other hand, losing the information stored in color channels and having only access to the primary brightness channel, makes this problem a unique challenge, since the main aim of automatic colorization is not to find the image’ s “ real” color but to colorize it in such a way that makes it “ seem real” as the original color information is lost forever and the only way to colorize it, is to provide a somewhat “ proper” estimation. In this research we propose a model to automatically colorize gray human portraits. We start by reviewing the methods used for the task of image colorization and provide an explanation as to why most of them collapse to a situation known as “ Averaging” . To counteract this effect, we design our end-to-end model with two separate deep neural networks forming a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), one to colorize the images and the other to evaluate the colorization of the first network and guide it towards the proper distribution. The results show improvements over other proposed methods in this field especially in the case of colorizing human portraits along faster train times. This method not only works on real human portraits but also on non-human and artistic portraits that can be leveraged to colorize hand-drawn images some of which may take minutes up to hours by hand.

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Haji Esmaeili, Mohammad Mahdi, & MONTAZER, GHOLAMALI. (2019). Automatic Colorization of Grayscale Images Using Generative Adversarial Networks. SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING, 16(1 (39) ), 57-74. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/160890/en

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Haji Esmaeili Mohammad Mahdi, MONTAZER GHOLAMALI. Automatic Colorization of Grayscale Images Using Generative Adversarial Networks. SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING[Internet]. 2019;16(1 (39) ):57-74. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/160890/en

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Mohammad Mahdi Haji Esmaeili, and GHOLAMALI MONTAZER, “Automatic Colorization of Grayscale Images Using Generative Adversarial Networks,” SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING, vol. 16, no. 1 (39) , pp. 57–74, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/160890/en

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