You are right. The insomnia or sun is getting to me. 
Still, it would be a good idea to explore the ability to transfer colours in a way where a colourful reference could make a dull target just, or at least half, as colourful. There are probably some papers on that subject.
I joked about the machine learning but it is what the cool kids are using nowadays and, if I recall correctly, there were musings on the possibility. 