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Interactive visual information processing, interactive image retrieval, segmentation .... (link ...)

Example-based Image Processing  ...  (link ...)

Unifying histogram-based image content descriptor for content-based image retrieval - the CPAM and AI framework  ... (link ...)

Integrated framework for image coding, indexing, and content-based image retrieval ... (link ...)

Visual guided browsing and navigation for fast image retrieval ... (link ...)

Fast comprehensive tone mapping for high dynamic range image visualization ...  (link ...)

Colorizing black and white photos ...

Making beautiful pictures,  computational photography ... (link ....)

Machine learning, pattern recognition ... (link ...)

Image data mining, image and feature co-clustering .... (link...)


A monochrome image is scribbled with some initial colors (left), these colors are then propagated to the whole image using our color by linear neighborhood embedding method (middle). For reference, the original image is shown on the right.

Colorizing black and white photos

We have deveoped a computational method for colorizing black and white photos. Following computational methods of the locally linear embedding (LLE) algorithm, we compute the geometry of the monochrome image by solving a constrained least squares problem and embed the computed geometry in the chrominance images by solving a linearly constrained quadratic optimization problem, both in closed forms. The two steps of our computational algorithm are

Step 1: Compute the neighbourhood relationships from the achromatics image


Step 2: Embed the neighbourhood relationships in the chrominance images


G Qiu and J. Guan, "Color by Linear Neighborhood Embedding", ICIP2005, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 11 - 14, 2005 (PDF)

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