Colorization of BLACK & WHITE

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Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a

monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves

segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across

image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in

practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user

intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive

task.



In this paper we present a simple colorization method that requires

neither precise image segmentation, nor accurate region tracking.

Our method is based on a simple premise: neighboring pixels in

space-time that have similar intensities should have similar colors.

We formalize this premise using a quadratic cost function and obtain

an optimization problem that can be solved efficiently using standard

techniques. In our approach an artist only needs to annotate the

image with a few color scribbles, and the indicated colors are

automatically propagated in both space and time to produce a fully

colorized image or sequence. We demonstrate that high quality

colorizations of stills and movie clips may be obtained from a

relatively modest amount of user input.







Still image colorization examples



Progressive colorization example



Recoloring examples



Video clip colorization examples



Note: The camera ready version of the paper can be downloaded

here.



Matlab code of our algorithm can be downloaded here .



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THE RESEARCH ARTICLE





SAMPLE PROCESS



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[megg]

hey ya definately it is time consuming but!! u know it is great!!!

i think soon there will be a time when this will be not so difficult and time consuming!!!

nice topic buddy!!

[Shake5]

u kiddin??

which softre does it?? will some softwares thake this techonology in future??

i think i didnt got what u r tellin..

please anna tell me in detaill.

Or i think u talkin of somnething else..

otherwise those guys should had ysed this techonology in colring mughal-e-azam!!

please tell me what it is all bout??

at present im jus tracking my colored layer & putting it in some blending mode..

please please please cleare my things out..

 

thanks in advence

 

see u soon in india sir

 

[Sukhmeet]

There is diffrent software for adding colour into black & white films

In short i can tell you that each & evry frame has to be masked & then colour is applied .

every colur has its own mask..