Colorization Using Optimization

This is a bit advanced, but the outcome is very cool. This process takes a black and white (or color) image, lets you scribble in some colors, and the colorization application accurately fills in and shades the rest. It can even do animated clips, as shown below.

More examples can be found at:

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/ The application that does this can be downloaded from: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/colorization.zip Please note that you’ll need a C++ compiler available to build the application, but it will compile on both Windows and Linux (view the README file in the download).