On Using Perceptual Loss within the U-Net Architecture for the Semantic Inpainting of Textile Artefacts with Traditional Motifs

It is impressive when one gets to see a hundreds or thousands years old artefact exhibited in the museum, whose appearance seems to have been untouched by centuries. Its restoration had been in the hands of a multidisciplinary team of experts and it had undergone a series of complex procedures. To t...

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Main Authors: Stoean, Catalin, Bacanin, Nebojsa, Stoean, Ruxandra, Ionescu, Leonard, Alecsa, Cristian, Hotoleanu, Mircea, Atencia, Miguel, Joya, Gonzalo
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
cultural heritage
Deep learning
Image restoration
Museums
Numerical models
Scientific computing
semantic inpainting
Semantics
textile artefacts
traditional motifs
Visualization
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Summary:It is impressive when one gets to see a hundreds or thousands years old artefact exhibited in the museum, whose appearance seems to have been untouched by centuries. Its restoration had been in the hands of a multidisciplinary team of experts and it had undergone a series of complex procedures. To this end, computational approaches that can support in deciding the most visually appropriate inpainting for very degraded historical items would be helpful as a second objective opinion for the restorers. The present paper thus attempts to put forward a U-Net approach with a perceptual loss for the semantic inpainting of traditional Romanian vests. Images taken of pieces from the collection of the Oltenia Museum in Craiova, along with such images with garments from the Internet, have been given to the deep learning model. The resulting numerical error for inpainting the corrupted parts is adequately low, however the visual similarity still has to be improved by considering further possibilities for finer tuning.
ISSN:2470-881X
DOI:10.1109/SYNASC57785.2022.00051