Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

Image Colorization

Colors are smiles of nature.

– Leigh Hunt

The world was captured in black and white until the 1840s. With a Nobel prize in physics in 1908, Gabriel Lippmann started the age of color captures. It was in 1935 when Eastman Kodak came out with an integral tripack color film, called Kodachrome, to capture color photographs.

Color images are not just about aesthetics and beauty, they capture a whole lot more information than black and white images. Color is an important property of real-world objects and it adds another dimension to our perception of the world around us. The importance of colors is such that there have been a number of projects to color historical works of art and photography throughout history. With the advent ...