Multi-scale progressive Swin Transformer for ancient Tai Lue palm leaf manuscript restoration
摘要
Ancient Tai Lue palm-leaf manuscripts commonly exhibit complex deteriorations, including irregular perforations, seal impressions, missing strokes, and blurring. This paper introduces MSPR-TL, a progressive restoration framework designed for such compound degradations. The network employs a three-level architecture operating at local, structural, and global scales, where multi-scale branches collaboratively integrate cross-level features to recover both fine details and overall layout consistency. A bidirectional feature fusion module facilitates inter-scale information exchange, while Swin Transformer blocks model long-range dependencies to enhance stroke reconstruction and suppress background interference. The training objective combines pixel fidelity, structural preservation, and perceptual quality through a dynamically weighted hybrid loss that incorporates a nonlinear diffusion regularizer. To support this work, we present TLADIRD2026, a dedicated dataset comprising palm-leaf and cotton paper manuscript images. Experimental evaluations on this dataset and public benchmarks demonstrate that MSPR-TL achieves competitive performance on multiple metrics, exhibiting robust generalization across diverse degradation patterns.