Synthetic Craquelure Generation for Unsupervised Painting Restoration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12742v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:13:46 GMT
• Title: Synthetic Craquelure Generation for Unsupervised Painting Restoration
• Authors: Jana Cuch-Guillén, Antonio Agudo, Raül Pérez-Gonzalo,
• Abstract summary: We propose a fully annotation-free framework driven by a domain-specific synthetic craquelure generator.<n>Our approach couples a classical morphological detector with a learning-based refinement module.<n>Our pipeline significantly outperforms state-of-the-art photographic restoration models in zero-shot settings.
• Score: 17.344021694835345
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Cultural heritage preservation increasingly demands non-invasive digital methods for painting restoration, yet identifying and restoring fine craquelure patterns from complex brushstrokes remains challenging due to scarce pixel-level annotations. We propose a fully annotation-free framework driven by a domain-specific synthetic craquelure generator, which simulates realistic branching and tapered fissure geometry using Bézier trajectories. Our approach couples a classical morphological detector with a learning-based refinement module: a SegFormer backbone adapted via Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Uniquely, we employ a detector-guided strategy, injecting the morphological map as an input spatial prior, while a masked hybrid loss and logit adjustment constrain the training to focus specifically on refining candidate crack regions. The refined masks subsequently guide an Anisotropic Diffusion inpainting stage to reconstruct missing content. Experimental results demonstrate that our pipeline significantly outperforms state-of-the-art photographic restoration models in zero-shot settings, while faithfully preserving the original paint brushwork.

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