{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/bias-in-automated-image-colorization-metrics","title":"Bias in Automated Image Colorization: Metrics and Error Types","arxiv_id":"2202.08143","date":"2022-02-16","proceeding":null,"authors":["Frank Stapel","Floris Weers","Doina Bucur"],"abstract":"We measure the color shifts present in colorized images from the ADE20K dataset, when colorized by the automatic GAN-based DeOldify model. We introduce fine-grained local and regional bias measurements between the original and the colorized images, and observe many colorization effects. We confirm a general desaturation effect, and also provide novel observations: a shift towards the training average, a pervasive blue shift, different color shifts among image categories, and a manual categorization of colorization errors in three classes.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08143v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.08143v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"bias-in-automated-image-colorization-metrics","repo_url":"https://github.com/weersproductions/colorization-bias","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"colorization","task_name":"Colorization"},{"task_slug":"image-colorization","task_name":"Image Colorization"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"colorization","method_name":"Colorization"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}