{"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/dating-historical-color-images","title":"Dating historical color images","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2012-10-07","proceeding":"ECCV 2012 10","authors":["Frank Palermo","James Hays","Alexei A. Efros"],"abstract":"We introduce the task of automatically estimating the age\r\nof historical color photographs. We suggest features which attempt to\r\ncapture temporally discriminative information based on the evolution of\r\ncolor imaging processes over time and evaluate the performance of both\r\nthese novel features and existing features commonly utilized in other\r\nproblem domains on a novel historical image data set. For the challenging\r\nclassification task of sorting historical color images into the decade during which they were photographed, we demonstrate significantly greater\r\naccuracy than that shown by untrained humans on the same data set.\r\nAdditionally, we apply the concept of data-driven camera response function estimation to historical color imagery, demonstrating its relevance\r\nto both the age estimation task and the popular application of imitating\r\nthe appearance of vintage color photography.","url_abs":"https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33783-3_36","url_pdf":"https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33783-3_36","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":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"age-estimation","task_name":"Age Estimation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"historical-color-image-dataset","name":"Historical Color Image Dataset","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}