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Auteurs principaux: Zhu, Shipeng, Chen, Ang, Nie, Na, Fang, Pengfei, Zhang, Min-Ling, Xue, Hui
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Publié: 2026
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author Zhu, Shipeng
Chen, Ang
Nie, Na
Fang, Pengfei
Zhang, Min-Ling
Xue, Hui
author_facet Zhu, Shipeng
Chen, Ang
Nie, Na
Fang, Pengfei
Zhang, Min-Ling
Xue, Hui
contents Ancient inscriptions, as repositories of cultural memory, have suffered from centuries of environmental and human-induced degradation. Restoring their intertwined visual and textual integrity poses one of the most demanding challenges in digital heritage preservation. However, existing AI-based approaches often rely on rigid pipelines, struggling to generalize across such complex and heterogeneous real-world degradations. Inspired by the skill-coordinated workflow of human epigraphers, we propose EpiAgent, an agent-centric system that formulates inscription restoration as a hierarchical planning problem. Following an Observe-Conceive-Execute-Reevaluate paradigm, an LLM-based central planner orchestrates collaboration among multimodal analysis, historical experience, specialized restoration tools, and iterative self-refinement. This agent-centric coordination enables a flexible and adaptive restoration process beyond conventional single-pass methods. Across real-world degraded inscriptions, EpiAgent achieves superior restoration quality and stronger generalization compared to existing methods. Our work marks an important step toward expert-level agent-driven restoration of cultural heritage. The code is available at https://github.com/blackprotoss/EpiAgent.
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spellingShingle EpiAgent: An Agent-Centric System for Ancient Inscription Restoration
Zhu, Shipeng
Chen, Ang
Nie, Na
Fang, Pengfei
Zhang, Min-Ling
Xue, Hui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Ancient inscriptions, as repositories of cultural memory, have suffered from centuries of environmental and human-induced degradation. Restoring their intertwined visual and textual integrity poses one of the most demanding challenges in digital heritage preservation. However, existing AI-based approaches often rely on rigid pipelines, struggling to generalize across such complex and heterogeneous real-world degradations. Inspired by the skill-coordinated workflow of human epigraphers, we propose EpiAgent, an agent-centric system that formulates inscription restoration as a hierarchical planning problem. Following an Observe-Conceive-Execute-Reevaluate paradigm, an LLM-based central planner orchestrates collaboration among multimodal analysis, historical experience, specialized restoration tools, and iterative self-refinement. This agent-centric coordination enables a flexible and adaptive restoration process beyond conventional single-pass methods. Across real-world degraded inscriptions, EpiAgent achieves superior restoration quality and stronger generalization compared to existing methods. Our work marks an important step toward expert-level agent-driven restoration of cultural heritage. The code is available at https://github.com/blackprotoss/EpiAgent.
title EpiAgent: An Agent-Centric System for Ancient Inscription Restoration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09367