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This is rather impressive. Similarly to the cited work http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/ http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/, it does however seem to have a slight bi
by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
This is rather impressive. Similarly to the cited work http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/ http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/, it does however seem to have a slight bias towards brownish colors (giving many images a sepia look).
One thing very noticeable in both works is also the tendency to overshoot borders when coloring. In many images it can be seen that the color of the main subject bleeds into the background. A good example is e.g. the fifth picture in
http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/resources/images/exs_sel_aa.jpg http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/resources/images/exs... , where parts of the sky get assigned the same color as the mesa. This looks like something that should be fixable if one tries to detect these kind of edges and gives less weight to information from the other side of such an edge.
Does anyone know what the differences between this and the previous neural net approach are on a technical level?
- neckro23 11y agoThe Ansel Adams examples are interesting because AA very deliberately manipulated the relative intensity of tones in his photographs. In fact, I'm not sure how applicable the current training method (desaturate a color photo, colorize it, compare it to the original) is to actual B&W photographs. Black-and-white photography is not a simple matter of desaturation.