New Coloring Software

[dan64]

Could you add in the section "1.1 Software / Demo" the project: vs-deoldify. Despite its name the software is combining DeOldify (reference benchmark for Video Colorization) and DDColor (one of the best image coloring models). While DDColor is good in coloring images, it is terrible when is applied to coloring videos. I used DeOldify to "stabilize" DDColor and a set of specific filters developed to stabilize both DDColor than the final colored video. The final result is quite satisfactory.

[dan64]

The project has now reached a good level of maturity and changed its name in: Hybrid Automatic Video Colorizer (aka DDeoldify). This project do not address the problem of coloring pictures, which is already explored by many researches. This project aim to solve a more complex problem that is the colorization of movies. To do that this project is using some of the best models available for coloring pictures: DeOldify , DDColor, Colorization, Deep Exemplar based Video Colorization and ColorMNet. The aim of this project is to find a way to put together the available models to get movies with good and stable colors. Given the characteristics of HAVC, it represents a unique project of its kind. I suggest to read the HAVC User Guide to get a clear idea of this filter and properly evaluating it. Thanks, Dan