Enhancing image colorization with semantic-guided diffusion and lightweight fine-tuning
摘要
Image colorization, a challenging task in computer vision, aims to restore color to grayscale images. This study introduces a novel diffusion-based framework that integrates semantic conditioning for high-fidelity colorization. Our approach involves training a grayscale-adapted encoder and a CLIP model separately to extract and align semantic features. The U-Net component of a pre-trained stable diffusion model is fine-tuned using low-rank adaptation (LoRA) for efficient and high-quality color generation. Experimental results demonstrate strong performance, achieving an FID of 13.53 and a PSNR of 24.42, outperforming existing baselines in both accuracy and perceptual quality. These findings underscore the effectiveness of combining diffusion models with semantic guidance and lightweight fine-tuning for robust and generalizable image colorization. Our implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/mohsenosl99/colorization_SD_Lora.