Video colorization is a challenging and highly ill-posed problem. Although recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in single image colorization, there is relatively less research effort on video colorization, and existing methods always suffer from severe flickering artifacts (temporal incon-sistency) or unsatisfactory colorization. We address this problem from a new perspective, by jointly considering colorization and temporal consistency in a unified framework. Specifically, we propose a novel temporally consistent video colorization (TCVC) framework. TCVC effectively propagates frame-level deep features in a bidirectional way to enhance the temporal consistency of colorization. Furthermore, TCVC introduces a self-regularization learning (SRL) scheme to minimize the differences in predictions obtained using different time steps. SRL does not require any ground-truth color videos for training and can further improve temporal consistency. Experiments demonstrate that our method can not only provide visually pleasing colorized video, but also with clearly better temporal consistency than state-of-the-art methods. A video demo is provided at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dczMs-olE, while code is available at https://github.com/lyh-18/TCVC-Temporally-Consistent-Video-Colorization.
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Computational Visual Media 2024, 10(2): 375-395
Published: 03 January 2024
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