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New benchmark and model tackle ancient book image restoration challenges

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Researchers have introduced AncBench, a large-scale benchmark dataset featuring 100,000 paired images designed to simulate realistic degradations found in ancient books. This dataset aims to improve the generalization capabilities of image restoration models, which are currently limited by existing benchmarks that use simplified degradation simulations. The accompanying AncRestore network dynamically integrates visual priors based on learned degradation representations, employing both expert-wise and region-wise routing strategies to adaptively adjust prior contributions for optimal restoration of global appearance and local text details. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to better preservation of historical documents through improved image restoration techniques.

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New benchmark and model tackle ancient book image restoration challenges

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Shumin Fan, Tianyu Song, Hongming Chen, Xiaodong Zhou, Xiang Chen ·

    Preserving Cultural Records: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Visual-Prior Routing Network for Ancient Book Image Restoration

    arXiv:2611.13010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ancient books preserve invaluable cultural heritage, yet their images often suffer from complex degradations caused by long-term ageing, environmental exposure, and physical damage. Existing ancient book image restoration benchmarks…

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