Colorizing Black & White images with Deep Learning
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Jair Ribeiro
Originally published on Towards AI.
Deep Learning

Source: Colorful Image Colorization Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros University of California, Berkeley
Since the beginning of photography, Image colorization may have been reserved for those with artistic talent in the past. Still, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, is it possible to colorize black and white images and videos with outstanding quality.
One exciting example is the paper Fully Automatic Video Colorization with Self-Regularization and Diversity ( you can read it here), which refers to one experiment by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which presents a fully automatic method for colorizing black and white films without any human… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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