Compensating for Scarce Historical Images in Cross-Domain Cultural Heritage Retrieval Using Synthetic Aging
Cultural heritage collections often contain contemporary and historical visual records of the same physical object. Linking these records is difficult because corresponding images may differ in viewpoint, acquisition conditions, color reproduction, framing, resolution, and degradation, while genuine historical images are frequently scarce. This study investigates whether synthetically aged contemporary images can replace or complement missing historical training data in bidirectional instance-level retrieval. Synthetic old-domain images are generated using degradation-oriented transformations. An EfficientNetV2-M model is evaluated on identity-disjoint training, validation, and test sets ...
| Authors | Marcin Iwanowski, Adam Mazgaj, Ferdynand Gorski et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 8 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 September 2026 |
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