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Black-and-White Photo Colourisation

Adds plausible colour to old black-and-white photos with a GAN

3-4 weeks build

Overview

Photos are converted to Lab colour space so the network only has to predict the two colour channels from lightness. A pix2pix-style GAN with a pretrained ResNet encoder is trained on a subset of COCO, and its results are compared with a plain regression model to show why adversarial training avoids washed-out, sepia-looking output.

What makes it stand up

  • 01Lab colour space formulation that predicts only the ab channels
  • 02U-Net generator with a pretrained ResNet encoder
  • 03L1-only baseline compared against the adversarial model
  • 04Batch colourisation of scanned family photos
  • 05Colourfulness score and a small user preference study in the report

Module breakdown

  1. 01

    Colour pipeline

    RGB to Lab conversion and reconstruction utilities.

  2. 02

    Baseline

    Regression model trained with L1 loss alone.

  3. 03

    GAN

    Conditional generator and PatchGAN discriminator.

  4. 04

    Training

    Encoder pretraining followed by adversarial fine-tuning.

  5. 05

    App

    Streamlit upload with side-by-side and batch download.

After this, you will be able to

  • Explain why colourisation is framed in Lab rather than RGB
  • Defend why adversarial loss gives more vivid colours than L1 alone
  • Demo colourising a photo from a family album

Technology stack

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • OpenCV
  • scikit-image
  • Streamlit

Complete kit

₹7,299₹12,399
-41%

Delivered in under 48 hours

Level
Major Project
Domain
Artificial Intelligence
Build time
3-4 weeks
Difficulty

You receive

  • Complete, commented source code
  • 60-90 page project report (IEEE format)
  • Editable presentation deck
  • Architecture, ER and UML diagrams
  • Local setup and deployment guide
  • Sample dataset or seed data
  • Viva question bank with answers
  • One 45-minute walkthrough call
  • 30 days of doubt-clearing support
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