This repo contains the TIR2Lab model and weights presented in the PBVS2018 paper with the same name:

A. Berg, J. Ahlberg, and M. Felsberg, Generating Visible Spectrum Images from Thermal Infrared, 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), (2018)

OBS! This is the same repo that previously resided here: https://gitlab.ida.liu.se/amabe60/PBVS2018

Example of how to load the model and pre-trained weights in Keras 2.0:

with open('TIR2Lab_model.json') as f:
        json_string = f.readline()
transformer = model_from_json(json_string)
transformer.load_weights('TIR2Lab_weights.h5')

I preprocessed the input images and stored them as .npy files to speed up the processing time. The multiplication by 16 for nTrainFiles is simply because each .npy file contained 16 images. If you want to do the same, you can use the functions generate_image_data and generate_image_lab_data in utils.py like this in a loop and then just save them to .npy's:

LWIRimages = generate_image_data(LWIRtrainDataFiles[step*batch_size:(step+1)*batch_size], scaleFactor, 640, 512, 
                                 normalize_to_interval_01 = False, reduce_to_one_channel = True)
RGBimages = generate_image_lab_data(RGBtrainDataFiles[step*batch_size:(step+1)*batch_size], scaleFactor, 640, 512, 
                                    normalize_to_interval_01 = False, quantizeAccToZhang2016 = False)

Please note that the output images will be in a normalized Lab color space. Use the following function (postprocess_tir2lab_results) to convert an output image from the nomalized Lab color space to RGB:

import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
from skimage import color

def postprocess_tir2lab_results(batch, validationPath):		
	rescaled_batch = lab_rescale(batch)
	for idx, image in enumerate(rescaled_batch):
		image = color.lab2rgb(image.astype('float64'))
		image = image*255
		im = Image.fromarray(np.squeeze(image).astype('uint8'))
		im.save(validationPath + '/I000' + str(idx) + '.png')
		
def lab_rescale(im):
    im[:,:,:,0] = im[:,:,:,0]*100.0
    im[:,:,:,1] = im[:,:,:,1]*185.0 - 87.0
    im[:,:,:,2] = im[:,:,:,2]*203.0 - 108.0
    return im

Since many have asked, I have now uploaded the source code as well. Be aware that even though it has been organized and cleaned, it is still in a kind of "development" stage. Use at your own risk!