Bias in Automated Image Colorization: Metrics and Error Types

Frank Stapel; Floris Weers; Doina Bucur

doi:10.48550/arXiv.2202.08143

Bias in Automated Image Colorization: Metrics and Error Types

Frank Stapel
, Floris Weers
, Doina Bucur

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We measure the color shifts present in colorized images from the ADE20K dataset, when colorized by the automatic GAN-based DeOldify model. We introduce fine-grained local and regional bias measurements between the original and the colorized images, and observe many colorization effects. We confirm a general desaturation effect, and also provide novel observations: a shift towards the training average, a pervasive blue shift, different color shifts among image categories, and a manual categorization of colorization errors in three classes.

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DOIs	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2202.08143
Publication status	Published - 16 Feb 2022

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