EpiAgent: An Agent-Centric System for Ancient Inscription Restoration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09367v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:37:54 GMT
• Title: EpiAgent: An Agent-Centric System for Ancient Inscription Restoration
• Abstract summary: EpiAgent is an agent-centric system that formulates inscription restoration as a hierarchical planning problem.<n>EpiAgent achieves superior restoration quality and stronger generalization compared to existing methods.<n>Our work marks an important step toward expert-level agent-driven restoration of cultural heritage.
• Score: 60.77886293107454
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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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