Learning to Color from Language

Varun Manjunatha, Mohit Iyyer, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Larry Davis


Abstract
Automatic colorization is the process of adding color to greyscale images. We condition this process on language, allowing end users to manipulate a colorized image by feeding in different captions. We present two different architectures for language-conditioned colorization, both of which produce more accurate and plausible colorizations than a language-agnostic version. Furthermore, we demonstrate through crowdsourced experiments that we can dramatically alter colorizations simply by manipulating descriptive color words in captions.
Anthology ID:
N18-2120
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
764–769
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-2120
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-2120
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Cite (ACL):
Varun Manjunatha, Mohit Iyyer, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Larry Davis. 2018. Learning to Color from Language. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 764–769, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Learning to Color from Language (Manjunatha et al., NAACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-2120.pdf
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 superhans/colorfromlanguage
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