“Outline Colorization through Tandem Adversarial Networks”, 2017-04-28 (; backlinks; similar):
When creating digital art, coloring and shading are often time-consuming tasks that follow the same general patterns.
A solution to automatically colorize raw line art would have many practical applications. We propose a setup using two networks in tandem: a color prediction network based only on outlines, and a shading network conditioned on both outlines and a color scheme. We present processing methods to limit information passed in the color scheme, improving generalization.
Finally, we demonstrate natural-looking results when colorizing outlines from scratch, as well as from a messy, user-defined color scheme.