DDColor

Why we included this project

DDColor does one thing well: it puts believable color back into black-and-white photos. It's an ICCV 2023 method from Alibaba's DAMO Academy, and the code here lets you run it yourself with just PyTorch. The model learns reusable color tokens from multi-scale visual features, which tends to look more natural than earlier deep colorizers. Pretrained weights ship with the repo, including a lighter 'tiny' variant, and there are Replicate and ModelScope demos if you want to sample the output before installing anything. People restoring old family photos, digitized film archives, or even anime game landscapes that want a more realistic finish will find a solid baseline they can retrain on their own data.