Recent Approaches for Image Colorization

In the last years, image and video colorization has been considered from many points of view. The technique consists of the addition of a color component to a grayscale image. This operation needs additional priors which can be given by manual intervention of the user from an example image or be extracted from a large dataset of color images. A very large variety of approaches has been used to solve this problem, like PDE models, non-local methods, variational frameworks, learning approaches, etc. In this chapter, we aim at providing a general overview of state-of-the-art approaches with a focus on few representative methods. Moreover, some recent techniques from the different types of priors (manual, exemplar-based, dataset-based) are explained and compared. The organization of the chapter aims at describing the evolution of the techniques in relation to each other. A focus on some efficient strategies is proposed for each kind of methodology.