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Awesome Software for Image Coloring !Awesome (https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg) (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
 
A curated list of awesome AI-powered image coloring frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning. It's a good idea to explore the GitHub topic as well - Topic "Image colorization"
(https://github.com/topics/image-colorization). In comparison to the awesome list MarkMoHR/Awesome-Image-Colorization (which focuses on research papers), I focus on practical open-source software.
 
Considerations
 
Most of the software runs in Python, and requires some kind of an AI frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow) - which means you may need a GPU with a configured CUDA toolkit to run it in a reasonable time.
 
Frameworks and libraries
 
:snake: Python
 
Tensorflow
 
Automatic Image Colorization (https://github.com/Armour/Automatic-Image-Colorization) - Automatic Image Colorization using TensorFlow based on Residual Encoder Network http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/
Image Colorization using Convolutional Networks (https://github.com/shekkizh/Colorization.tensorflow) - Image colorization using CNNs in tensorflow.
Image and video colorizer (https://github.com/PrimozGodec/ImageColorization) - Image and video colorizer is package for automatic image and video colorization. Models are already trained.
PIC - Probabilistic Image Colorization (https://github.com/ameroyer/PIC) - Probabilistic Image Colorization https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04258
Photo Coloring Using End2end CNN based Model! (https://github.com/AbdelrahmanRadwan/photo-coloring) - A Deep Learning based coloring tool, which can color a black-white or gray picture.
 
Tensorflow with GANs
 
Image Colorization with Generative Adversarial Networks (https://github.com/ImagingLab/Colorizing-with-GANs) -
Grayscale Image Colorization with Generative Adversarial Networks. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05400
Image-colorization-using-CycleGAN (https://github.com/ArkaJU/Image-Colorization-CycleGAN) - Colorization of grayscale images using CycleGAN in TensorFlow.
 
Keras
 
Coloring Black and White photos with Neural Networks (https://github.com/emilwallner/Coloring-greyscale-images) - Coloring black and white images with deep learning.
JadeBlue96 (https://github.com/JadeBlue96/Image-Colorization-of-Historical-Paintings) - Recolorizing grayscaled historical paintings and photos with Deep Learning using an Autoencoder CNN.
Image-Coloring (https://github.com/aman-chauhan/Image-Coloring) - Deep Neural Net for coloring grayscale images using local and global image features
Image-Colorization (https://github.com/thevarunsharma/Image-Colorization) - Automatic Image Colorization using a Convolutional Network (U-Net)
 
Fast.AI
 
DeOldify (https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify) - A Deep Learning based project for colorizing and restoring old images.
 
Caffee
 
Colorful Image Colorization (https://github.com/richzhang/colorization) - Automatic colorization using deep neural networks. "Colorful Image Colorization." In ECCV, 2016. http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/
Interactive Deep Colorization (https://github.com/junyanz/interactive-deep-colorization) - Deep learning software for colorizing black and white images with a few clicks. https://richzhang.github.io/ideepcolor/
 
PyTorch
 
Interactive Deep Colorization in PyTorch (https://github.com/richzhang/colorization-pytorch) - PyTorch reimplementation of Interactive Deep Colorization https://richzhang.github.io/ideepcolor/
Automatic Image Colorization (https://github.com/kainoj/colnet) - Automatic Image Colorization with Simultaneous Classification – based on "Let there be Color!".
Image colorization with GANs (https://github.com/karoly-hars/GAN_image_colorizing) - Image colorization with generative adversarial networks on the CIFAR10 dataset.
Colorful Image Colorization PyTorch
(https://github.com/Time0o/pytorch-colorful-colorization) - A from-scratch PyTorch implementation of "Colorful Image Colorization" by Zhang et al. created for the Deep Learning in Data Science course at KTH Stockholm.
Colorful Image Colorization (https://github.com/Epiphqny/Colorization) - Pytorch implementation of the paper Colorful Image Colorization https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08511
Square-Images-Colorization (https://github.com/done1892/Square-Images-Colorization) - Colorization algorithms for images depicting cities squares
 
C++
 
Beyond Landscapes: An Exemplar-based Image colorization method (https://github.com/saulo-p/Exemplar-Image-Colorization) - Exemplar-based Image Colorization method based on superpixel segmentation and classification.
 
C#
 
StyleTransfer-Colorization-SuperResolution (https://github.com/ColorfulSoft/StyleTransfer-Colorization-SuperResolution) - Demonstration implementations of neural network image processing algorithms.
 
Language-based colorization
 
SketchySceneColorization (https://github.com/SketchyScene/SketchySceneColorization) - Language-based Colorization of Scene Sketches. (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019) https://sketchyscene.github.io/SketchySceneColorization/
 
Implementations / apps
 
iOS
 
Colorizer iOS (https://github.com/alex011235/Colorizer-iOS) - Transform grayscale photos to color photos in iOS
 
:books: Relevant knowledge, books and papers
 
Awesome-Image-Colorization (https://github.com/MarkMoHR/Awesome-Image-Colorization) - A collection of Deep Learning based Image Colorization and Video Colorization papers.
 
Build a Photo Restoration App with Python (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgQpalRRW3A) - YouTube tutorial from AssemblyAI on how to build a photo restoration app with Python and Flask.
 
:dark_sunglasses: Related awesome lists
Awesome Machine Learning (https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning) - A curated list of awesome Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software.
Awesome Deep Learning (https://github.com/ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learning) - A curated list of awesome Deep Learning tutorials, projects and communities.
Awesome Deep Vision (https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-deep-vision) - A curated list of deep learning resources for computer vision.
 
imagecoloring Github: https://github.com/oskar-j/awesome-image-coloring