Emotion-driven multimodal generation of Dunhuang murals with spatial motif priors for interactive digital heritage
摘要
Dunhuang murals suffer from fragile pigments and complex iconography due to aging and historical interventions, making culturally faithful digital restoration challenging. Existing methods rely on static emotion–style mappings, offer limited interactivity, and overlook Dunhuang-specific symbolic semantics. This study proposes an emotion-driven multimodal generative framework for mural synthesis and restoration. Spatial motif priors are extracted using 2D-FFT and CNNs to capture periodic ornament structures. Text and speech inputs are fused into a continuous emotion embedding that regulates interpretable style parameters. An asynchronous latent-space partitioning strategy enables localized editing while preserving structural coherence, and a Dunhuang Symbol Knowledge Graph constrains iconographic semantics. Experiments on an expert-annotated dataset demonstrate improved emotion–style alignment, cultural-symbol fidelity, and motif consistency. Results are evaluated using CLIP similarity, CSA, PCI, and FID. Seed-level verification records support recomputation of reported metrics, offering a traceable, culturally grounded approach for digital heritage generation.