A colorization method for historical videos

The development of imaging technology has allowed people to move beyond the black-and-white era and into the age of color. However, preserved black-and-white historical footage remains a precious memory for people. We propose a coloring method for historical videos that combines historical image col...

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Published inCognitive robotics Vol. 3; pp. 201 - 207
Main Authors Jin, Xin, Rong, Yiqing, Liu, Ke, Xiao, Chaoen, Zhang, Xiaokun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2023
KeAi Communications Co. Ltd
Subjects
Computer vision
Deep learning
Video colorization
Deep learning
Computer vision
Video colorization
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Summary:The development of imaging technology has allowed people to move beyond the black-and-white era and into the age of color. However, preserved black-and-white historical footage remains a precious memory for people. We propose a coloring method for historical videos that combines historical image coloring methods with temporal consistency methods, thus achieving color editing for historical videos. The temporal consistency technique uses deep video priors to model the video structure and effectively ensure smoothness between frames after video color editing, even with a small amount of training data. Meanwhile, we have collected a historical video dataset named MHMD-Video, which facilitates further research on colorization of historical videos for researchers. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method through objective and subjective evaluation.
ISSN:2667-2413
2667-2413
DOI:10.1016/j.cogr.2023.07.001