Title
Hand-drawn grayscale image colorful colorization based on natural image
Abstract
This paper presents a novel colorization technique for hand-drawn grayscale images, such as cartoons and sketches, based on reference natural images and simple user interactions, which can generate colorful and natural results. Firstly, to solve the problem of inputting complex color scribbles by simple interactions, we introduce a region thinning method for generating color scribbles and then map these scribbles to the corresponding regions in the hand-drawn image via region mapping method based on the scanning line. Secondly, to maintain the color fidelity, a luminance downward modification method is proposed. Next, a optimization method for colorization is proposed, where the feature vectors are adjusted by a smooth feature map, thus maintaining smooth color transitions in the smooth areas and controlling the color overflow in the texture areas. Thirdly, to fuse the colorized image with a highlight effect, a luminance upward modification method by weights, which are determined by color distance and boundary distance, is proposed. The experimental results of the proposed algorithm show the smooth color transition in the intensity-continuity areas, color overflow controlling in the texture-continuity areas and natural effect of light and shadow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s00371-018-1613-8
The Visual Computer
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hand-drawn grayscale image, Colorful colorization, Region mapping, Gabor filter, Highlight effect fusion
Computer vision,Shadow,Feature vector,Computer science,Gabor filter,Artificial intelligence,Fuse (electrical),Luminance,Color difference,Grayscale
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35.0
SP11
1432-2315
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liyang Fang100.34
Jin Wang203.04
Guodong Lu36814.74
Dong-Liang Zhang4507.55
Jianhui Fu500.34