Blurred character image restoration in Mawangdui silk manuscripts using receptive field transformer networks
摘要
Silk manuscripts contain important historical information, but their characters are often degraded by fading, blurring, broken strokes, and local structural loss. This paper proposes a receptive-field-enhanced Transformer restoration model for blurred character images from Mawangdui silk manuscripts. Built on a U-Net-style framework, the model introduces a perception former block (PFB) to capture multi-scale stroke context and long-range dependencies, and a skip feature fusion (SFF) module to improve cross-level feature transmission and preserve stroke details. A task-specific dataset with 4202 training images and 427 test images is constructed, and experiments are conducted under random, 10%–35%, and 35%–60% mask settings. Compared with representative restoration methods and a diffusion-based text-image inpainting baseline, the proposed method improves structural restoration and achieves higher PSNR and SSIM under most mask settings. Model complexity, inference time, NIQE, and CLIP-IQA are also reported.