A lightweight enhanced EfficientNet model for Chinese eaves tile dynasty classification
摘要
As fundamental components of Chinese architectural eaves ornaments since the Western Zhou Dynasty, eaves tiles integrate structural protection with artistic value. This study develops an automated dynasty recognition system using an enhanced lightweight EfficientNet-B0. Innovations include integrating Convolutional Block Attention Modules (CBAM) after initial convolution and MBConv6 blocks, replacing Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) with CBAM, and introducing Widthwise-Transform Convolution (WTConv) to form CWConv blocks. Focal Loss mitigates class imbalance. A comprehensive dataset of 16,312 eaves tile images across eight dynasties from Shang-Zhou to Ming-Qing was constructed using field photography and public museum archives, augmented to address sample scarcity. The optimized model achieves 87.8% accuracy in eight-dynasty classification, surpassing the baseline by 6.3%, with improved precision, recall, and F1-score. It demonstrates robustness for monochromatic, texturally similar tiles under low computational cost, supporting mobile deployment for architectural heritage preservation and historical analysis.