arxivcs.CV2026-07-20
Reviving Ancient Paintings via Poem: A Colorization Framework for Aligning Cultural Semantics
Junming Gao, Biao Zhu, Xiaosong Wang, Tan Tang
The irreversible fading of ancient paintings disrupts the "congruence between poems and paintings", a core aesthetic principle where visual imagery harmonizes with literary inscriptions. Although diffusion models provide strong generative priors, restoring historically faithful c…