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Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, 2012, 4, 135-143 135 / 10.4236/jilsa.2012.42013 Published Online May 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jilsa) Automated Colorization of Grayscale Images Using Texture Descriptors and a Modified Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Christophe Gauge, Sreela Sasi Department of Computer and Information Science, Gannon University, Erie, USA. Email: gauge@, sasi001@ st st th Received May 31 , 2011; revised January 31 , 2012; accepted February 7 , 2012 ABSTRACT A novel example-based process for Automated Colorization of grayscale images using Texture Descriptors (ACTD) without any human intervention is proposed. By analyzing a set of sample color images, coherent regions of homoge- neous textures are extracted. A multi-channel filtering technique is used for texture-based image segmentation, com- bined with a modified Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm. This modified FCM clustering algorithm includes both the local spatial information from neighboring pixels, and the spatial Euclidian distance to the cluster’s center of gravity. For each area of interest, state-of-the-art texture descriptors are then computed and stored, along with corre- sponding color information. These texture descriptors and the color information are used for colorization of a grayscale image with similar textures. Given a grayscale image to be colorized, the segmentation and feature extraction processes are repeated. The texture descriptors are used to perform Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). The colorization process is performed by Chroma replacement. This research finds numerous applications, ranging from classic film restoration and enhancement, to adding valuable information into medical an