DDColor: Towards Photo-Realistic Image Colorization via Dual Decoders

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11613v5
• Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 07:16:52 GMT
• Title: DDColor: Towards Photo-Realistic Image Colorization via Dual Decoders
• Authors: Xiaoyang Kang, Tao Yang, Wenqi Ouyang, Peiran Ren, Lingzhi Li, Xuansong Xie
• Abstract summary: DDColor is an end-to-end method with dual decoders for image colorization. Our approach includes a pixel decoder and a query-based color decoder. Our two decoders work together to establish correlations between color and multi-scale semantic representations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods can deliver better results, they often rely on manually designed priors, suffer from poor generalization ability, and introduce color bleeding effects. To address these issues, we propose DDColor, an end-to-end method with dual decoders for image colorization. Our approach includes a pixel decoder and a query-based color decoder. The former restores the spatial resolution of the image, while the latter utilizes rich visual features to refine color queries, thus avoiding hand-crafted priors. Our two decoders work together to establish correlations between color and multi-scale semantic representations via cross-attention, significantly alleviating the color bleeding effect. Additionally, a simple yet effective colorfulness loss is introduced to enhance the color richness. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DDColor achieves superior performance to existing state-of-the-art works both quantitatively and qualitatively. The codes and models are publicly available at https://github.com/piddnad/DDColor.

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