Papers › Image Colorization with Generative Adversarial Networks

Image Colorization with Generative Adversarial Networks

14 Mar 2018arXiv:1803.05400archive 2025-07-28

Kamyar Nazeri, Eric Ng, Mehran Ebrahimi

Over the last decade, the process of automatic image colorization has been of significant interest for several application areas including restoration of aged or degraded images. This problem is highly ill-posed due to the large degrees of freedom during the assignment of color information. Many of the recent developments in automatic colorization involve images that contain a common theme or require highly processed data such as semantic maps as input. In our approach, we attempt to fully generalize the colorization procedure using a conditional Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN), extend current methods to high-resolution images and suggest training strategies that speed up the process and greatly stabilize it. The network is trained over datasets that are publicly available such as CIFAR-10 and Places365. The results of the generative model and traditional deep neural networks are compared.

PaperPDFCode

In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.

Code

ImagingLab/Colorizing-with-GANs officialmentioned in papermentioned on GitHubtf report
elad205/PhotoLife mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
hbenbel/Colorization mentioned on GitHubpytorch report

Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.

Code Syntology ran Syntology

Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.

Tasks

ColorizationImage Colorization

1 archive task tag without a task page not shown.

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.

Methods

ColorizationSPEED

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections