mohaned-abid/old-tunisian-images-colorizer

this project uses deep learning to bring old tunisian images from history back to life using caffe framework and deploying it with python flask app **this project is largely dependent on richzhang paper and its pre-trained model** this project uses deep learning to bring old tunisian images back to life. Making use of an already pretrained model I ceated a flask app that allows users to colorize their own black and white photos as well as explore our gallery.Then I managed to deploy this project on HEROKU ( link: imgcol.herokuapp.com ) **challenges:** -one of the challenges that I went through during this project is dealing with output images from the model and then using them in the front this issue is caused by image caching in the browser. -Also since heroku is a saas I had to use custom buildpacks in order to add necessary dependcies to heroku's OS in order for OPENCV to work. HOSTED PROJECT LINK: imgcol.herokuapp.com used links: *Black and white image colorization with OpenCV and Deep Learning: This article was very useful to inderstand the research paper and to make use of the model loading it with OPENCV pyimagesearch.com @inproceedings{zhang2016colorful, title={Colorful Image Colorization}, author={Zhang, Richard and Isola, Phillip and Efros, Alexei A}, booktitle={ECCV}, year={2016} }