Automatically Colorize Face Photos

Introduction

Colors bring life to our photos and make them feel lively, exciting, or melancholic. The importance of color is twofold:

• It enables us to tell visual stories with our photos.

• It helps evoke emotions and create a mood for the viewers.

Objective

This lesson will show us how to use AI to colorize photos of faces. The face colorizer will convert our photos to a black and white format, then add natural and realistic colors to the detected faces. This lightweight colorizer, developed in Python and utilizing deep learning, will employ a pretrained Caffe model.