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Image compression-decompression methods have become increasingly crucial in modern times, facilitating the transfer of high-quality images while minimizing file size and internet traffic. Historically, early image compression relied on rudimentary codecs, aiming to compress and decompress data with minimal loss of image quality. Recently, a novel compression framework leveraging colorization techniques has emerged. These methods, originally developed for infusing grayscale images with color, have found application in image compression, leading to colorization-based coding. Within this framework, the encoder plays a crucial role in automatically extracting representative pixels—referred to as color seeds—and transmitting them to the decoder. The decoder, utilizing colorization methods, reconstructs color information for the remaining pixels based on the transmitted data. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to image compression, wherein we decompose the compression task into grayscale image compression and colorization tasks. Unlike conventional colorization-based coding, our method focuses on the colorization process rather than the extraction of color seeds. Moreover, we employ the Denoising Diffusion Null-Space Model (DDNM) for colorization, ensuring high-quality color restoration and contributing to superior compression rates. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves higher-quality decompressed images compared to standard JPEG and JPEG2000 compression schemes, particularly in high compression rate scenarios.

Colorization is a method using computer to add color to a black and white image automatically. The input is a grayscale image and some representative pixels (RPs). The RPs contain the color information for the image, and it indicates each region's color information. Colorization-based coding is a novel way for lossy image compression, it decodes a color image to get grayscale image and extracts RPs from the image. Because RPs decides the region's color and we also want small data size for image compression, form this viewpoint the paper proposes a way to get better and fewer RPs based on watershed segmentation. According to the segmentation result we also improve the original chrominance blending colorization method to save decode time and get better reconstruct image.

In this paper, we proposed automatically video colorization method with partial color sources in first frame. The input color sources are propagated to other gray pixels with the high correlation between two pixels. To robust again the errors in portion of the weak boundary, we calculate correlation between two pixels using dual-path comparison. Video colorization method should maintain the color connectivity between frames. Accordingly, we define reliability of primarily color by compare the color of neighborhood frames. We perform the color correction by blending neighboring color when the reliability of primarily color is low. We formalize this premise with energy function, and find the color to minimize the energy function. In this way, using property of video, we reduce the error caused by propagation and get result of natural changes between frames. Through simulation results, we show the proposed method derive a natural result more than previous method.

Image coloration refers to adding plausible colors to a grayscale image or video. Image coloration has been used in many modern fields, including restoring old photographs, as well as reducing the time spent painting cartoons. In this paper, a method is proposed for colorizing grayscale images using a convolutional neural network. We propose an encoder-decoder model, adapting FusionNet to our purpose. A proper loss function is defined instead of the MSE loss function to suit the purpose of coloring. The proposed model was verified using the ImageNet dataset. We quantitatively compared several colorization models with ours, using the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) metric. In addition, to qualitatively evaluate the results, our model was applied to images in the test dataset and compared to images applied to various other models. Finally, we applied our model to a selection of old black and white photographs.

The Chinese Ink Painting is an art with long history in Chinese culture. Painters can obtain various kinds of scenery by mixing water and ink properly. These papers provides a colorization technique that can transfer gray scale paintings to color paintings. Various colorization techniques for photorealistic images have good results. But these techniques are uncertainly suitable for Chinese Ink Painting. In our method, users only provide a gray scale Chinese Ink Painting and a similar color Chinese Ink Painting subjectively, system can automatically transfer the color from color painting to gray scale painting. We also provide a method for users to refine the automatically generated result.

채색화는 흑백 영상에 색 정보를 추가하거나 영상의 색을 변환하는 영상 개선 기법이다. 본 연구는 최소한의 사용자 개입을 통해 흑백 영상을 자연스러운 칼라 (color) 영상으로 전환하는 채색화 기법을 제안한다. 우리는 우선 자연스러운 채색 결과를 위한 채색화 함수를 정의한다. 제안하는 채색화 함수는 유사한 밝기 정보를 가지는 이웃 픽셀들은 비슷한 색 정보를 가질 확률이 높다는 간단한 가정 하에 MRF (Markov Random Field)에 기반하여 모델링한다. 채색화 함수에 의해 색이 전체적으로 자연스럽게 분포될 수 있도록, 확산 신뢰도를 정의한 후 신뢰도에 따라 채색 순서를 결정한다. 이후, 채색 순서에 따라 각 픽셀에 채색화 함수를 적용하여 자연스러운 채색 결과를 도출한다. 실험 결과에서 보듯이, 제안 기법은 적은 색상 정보의 입력을 통해 효과적으로 채색화 하며, 기존 기법에 비해 자연스러운 결과를 제시한다.

컬러 사진을 흑백으로 바꿔 데이터 셋을 구축해 CNN 모델을 트레이닝 시킨다. HSI 컬러 모델에서 흑백 사진으로부터 밝기 값은 알고 있음으로, 나머지 두 컬러 영역 색상, 채도를 CNN 모델이 추측하도록 학습을 시켜, 흑백사진으로부터 컬러 사진을 만들어낸다. 이 기술을 채색이 안된 불교 미술 그림에 적용하여 채색을 시키는 것에 대한 연구를 진행하였다.

컬러 사진을 흑백으로 바꿔 데이터 셋을 구축해 CNN 모델을 트레이닝 시킨다. HSI 컬러 모델에서 흑백 사진으로부터 밝기 값은 알고 있음으로, 나머지 두 컬러 영역 색상, 채도를 CNN 모델이 추측하도록 학습을 시켜, 흑백사진으로부터 컬러 사진을 만들어낸다. 이 기술을 채색이 안된 불교 미술 그림에 적용하여 채색을 시키는 것에 대한 연구를 진행하였다.

본 레터논문에서는 컬러라이제이션(Colorization)기반 영상압축방법을 위해 평균이동기반의 영상분할법을 사용하여 컬러라이제이션 행렬을 분할하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 제안한 방법을 사용할 경우 계산 속도는 대략 30배 이상 빨라지고, 기존의 역컬러라이제이션 기반의 압축방법에서 생기는 번짐(smearing) 현상도 많이 제거가 되는 것을 볼 수 있었다.

In this letter, we propose a method for colorization based coding, which divides the colorization matrix into smaller sub-matrices using the meanshift segmentation. Using the proposed method the computation speed becomes more than 30 times faster. Furthermore, the smearing artifact, which appears in conventional colorization based compression method, is greatly reduced.

최근 급속한 기술발전을 이루고 있는 전자종이 디스플레이의 컬러화가 대부분 를 기반으로 하는 바람직하지 않은 방법인 컬러필터를 적용하고 있다 따라서 본 연구에서는 산업에서의 연구개발 동향을 쉽게 확인할 수 있는 특허동향을 조사하였으며 컬러화와 관련이 없는 입자나 디바이스 분야를 제외하고 컬러입자 및 전극구조의 연구분야를 상세하게 분류 및 분석하였으며 그 결과 컬러입자 및 전극구조 기술은 특허에서에서 공백기술임을 확인하였으며 이 분야의 연구는 전자종이의 컬러화를 이루는데 중요한 접근인 것으로 판단된다.

The colorization of a electronic paper display which is recently achieved rapid technical development have mostly applied undesirable color filter based on LCD. So we investigate the patent trend easily to ascertain R&D trend in industry, classify and analyze the research area of the color particle and the electrode structure in detail except the particle and the device, resultantly confirm that this area is a vacancy technology, which is a important approach to establish the colorization of electronic paper display.

In this study, we tested possibility of replacing nitrite salts, which were always added during the meat product processing, with the metabolites produced by antimicrobial and red pigment producing Monascus strains. We have already shown that Monascus No. 116 strain has the highest antimicrobial activity among the strains isolated from Ang-Khak. Monascus isolate No. 229 was chosen due to its outstanding red pigment producing ability. The red pigment production by No. 229 was highest in the medium containing 8% sucrose, 2% yeast extract, 0.1% K2HPO4, 0.5% MgSO4. Optimum pH and temperature for the red pigment production were pH 6.2 and 3$0^{\circ}C$, was found in spot or Rf value 0.54 on TLC plate using ethyl acetate-acetone-water (4:4:1, v/v/v) as development solvent system. Isolate No. 116 and No. 229 were cultured in a optimal condition for the antimicrobial activity and red pigmentation. The culture concentrates were applied in situ to the production of instantly processed ham. Mixed application of 89 ppm Na-nitrite and 300 ppm of culture broth concentrate of Monascus isolate No. 116 and 500 ppm of red color produced by Monascus isolate No. 229 showed similar results with the single application of 94 ppm Na-nitrite. These results confirmed that the antimicrobial activity and red pigment of Monascus strains might be valuable to replace Na-nitrite salt in meat processing.