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Efficient image colorization based on seed pixel selection

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胡敏 (Min Hu)
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Bo Ou *
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Yi Xiao
DOI:10.1007/s11042-016-4112-9delete
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Colorization is a technique to automatically produce color components for monochrome images and videos based on a few input colors. Generally, image colorization is initialized from a number of seed pixels whose colors are specified by users, and then the colors are gradually prorogating to the monochrome surroundings under a given optimization constraint. So, the performance of colorization is highly dependent on the selection of seed pixels. However, little attention has been paid to the selection of seed pixels, and how to improve the effectiveness of manual input remains a challenging task. To address this, an improved colorization method using seed pixel selection is proposed to assist the users in determining which pixels are highly required to be colorized for a high-quality colorized image. Specifically, the gray-scale image is first divided into non-overlapped blocks, and then, for each block, two pixels that approximate the average luminance of block are selected as the seeds. After the seed pixels are colored by users, an optimization that minimizes the difference between the seeds and their adjacent pixels is employed to propagate the colors to the other pixels. The experimental results demonstrate that, for a given amount of inputs, the proposed method can achieve a higher PSNR than the conventional colorization methods.
Keywords:
Image colorization
Seed pixel selection
Manual input alleviation
High-quality
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Multimedia Tools and Applications
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