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Image colorization: A survey and dataset
Anwar, Saeed Tahir, Muhammad Li, Chongyi Mian, Ajmal Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Muzaffar, Abdul Wahab
Anwar, Saeed
Tahir, Muhammad
Li, Chongyi
Mian, Ajmal
Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
Muzaffar, Abdul Wahab
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2025
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Image colorization estimates RGB colors for grayscale images or video frames to improve their aesthetic and perceptual quality. Over the last decade, deep learning techniques for image colorization have significantly progressed, necessitating a systematic survey and benchmarking of these techniques. This article presents a comprehensive survey of recent state-of-the-art deep learning-based image colorization techniques, describing their fundamental block architectures, inputs, optimizers, loss functions, training protocols, training data, etc. It categorizes the existing colorization techniques into seven classes and discusses important factors governing their performance, such as benchmark datasets and evaluation metrics. We highlight the limitations of existing datasets and introduce a new dataset specific to colorization. We perform an extensive experimental evaluation of existing image colorization methods using both existing datasets and our proposed one. Finally, we discuss the limitations of existing methods and recommend possible solutions and future research directions for this rapidly evolving topic of deep image colorization. The dataset and codes for evaluation are publicly available at https://github.com/saeed-anwar/ColorSurvey
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S. Anwar, M. Tahir, C. Li, A. Mian, F. S. Khan, and A. W. Muzaffar, “Image colorization: A survey and dataset,” Information Fusion, vol. 114, p. 102720, Feb. 2025, doi: 10.1016/J.INFFUS.2024.102720.
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Image colorizationExperimental surveyNew colorization datasetColorization reviewDeep learningCNN model classification
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Elsevier