Fig. 9: Comparison of restoration results on synthetically degraded manuscripts (The Pillow Book). | npj Heritage Science

Fig. 9: Comparison of restoration results on synthetically degraded manuscripts (The Pillow Book).

From: Restoration of ancient Japanese manuscripts via the diffusion denoising restoration model and color space-based masking

Fig. 9

Each row shows different samples from the dataset. The first column displays the clean reference image, the second shows the restoration by CycleGAN, the third presents results from DDRM guided by binarized images, and the fourth shows outputs generated by our proposed mask-guided DDRM. Red boxes highlight enlarged regions for detailed visual comparison, demonstrating that our method effectively restores fine character structures and suppresses background artifacts.

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