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Traditional monochrome image colorization techniques require considerable user interaction and a lot of time. The segment-based colorization works fast but at the expense of detail loss because of the large segmentation; while the optimization based method looks much more continuous but takes longer time. This paper proposed a novel approach: Segmentation colorization based on random walks, which is a fast segmentation technique and can naturally handle multi-label segmentation problems. It can maintain smoothness almost everywhere except for the sharp discontinuity at the boundaries in the images. Firstly, with the few seeds of pixels set manually scribbled by the user, a global energy is set up according to the spatial information and statistical grayscale information. Then, with random walks, the global optimal segmentation is obtained fast and efficiently. Finally, a banded graph cut based refine procedure is applied to deal with ambiguous regions of the previous segmentation. Several results are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Liu, X., Liu, J., Feng, Z. (2009). Colorization Using Segmentation with Random Walk. In: Jiang, X., Petkov, N. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2_57
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