SPColor: Semantic Prior Guided Exemplar-based Image Colorization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06255v3
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:32:10 GMT
• Title: SPColor: Semantic Prior Guided Exemplar-based Image Colorization
• Authors: Siqi Chen, Xueming Li, Xianlin Zhang, Mingdao Wang, Yu Zhang, Yue Zhang
• Abstract summary: We propose SPColor, a semantic prior guided-based image colorization framework. SPColor first coarsely classifies pixels of the reference and target images to several pseudo-classes under the guidance of semantic prior. Our model outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and qualitatively on public dataset.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Exemplar-based image colorization aims to colorize a target grayscale image based on a color reference image, and the key is to establish accurate pixel-level semantic correspondence between these two images. Previous methods search for correspondence across the entire reference image, and this type of global matching is easy to get mismatch. We summarize the difficulties in two aspects: (1) When the reference image only contains a part of objects related to target image, improper correspondence will be established in unrelated regions. (2) It is prone to get mismatch in regions where the shape or texture of the object is easily confused. To overcome these issues, we propose SPColor, a semantic prior guided exemplar-based image colorization framework. Different from previous methods, SPColor first coarsely classifies pixels of the reference and target images to several pseudo-classes under the guidance of semantic prior, then the correspondences are only established locally between the pixels in the same class via the newly designed semantic prior guided correspondence network. In this way, improper correspondence between different semantic classes is explicitly excluded, and the mismatch is obviously alleviated. Besides, to better reserve the color from reference, a similarity masked perceptual loss is designed. Noting that the carefully designed SPColor utilizes the semantic prior provided by an unsupervised segmentation model, which is free for additional manual semantic annotations. Experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and qualitatively on public dataset.

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