Abstract
Historical Manchu documents preserve invaluable linguistic and cultural heritage, yet their digitization is hindered by severe degradations and the scarcity of paired training data. Existing document restoration methods primarily optimize pixel-level reconstruction, which can produce visually plausible results while failing to preserve the structural identity of Manchu glyphs. To address this limitation, we propose a retrieval-guided glyph-aware restoration framework that goes beyond pixel reconstruction by explicitly incorporating glyph-level structural knowledge. Our method retrieves relevant glyph exemplars to provide structural guidance during restoration and integrates this information into the reconstruction process, improving the recovery of degraded character structures under low-resource conditions. Extensive experiments on Manchu historical documents demonstrate that the proposed approach improves both image restoration quality and glyph-level fidelity compared with existing restoration methods. These results highlight the importance of incorporating character-aware structural priors for reliable restoration of low-resource historical documents.
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APA 7
Huang, T., Wang, D., Liang, M., & Lu, S. (2026). Beyond Pixel Reconstruction: Retrieval-Guided Glyph-Aware Restoration for Low-Resource Manchu Historical Documents. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/beyond-pixel-reconstruction-retrieval-guided-glyph-aware-restoration-for-low-resource-manchu-historical-documents
MLA 9
Huang, Ting, et al. "Beyond Pixel Reconstruction: Retrieval-Guided Glyph-Aware Restoration for Low-Resource Manchu Historical Documents." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/beyond-pixel-reconstruction-retrieval-guided-glyph-aware-restoration-for-low-resource-manchu-historical-documents.
Chicago (author–date)
Huang, Ting, Dongdong Wang, Mingqiu Liang, and Siyang Lu. 2026. "Beyond Pixel Reconstruction: Retrieval-Guided Glyph-Aware Restoration for Low-Resource Manchu Historical Documents." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/beyond-pixel-reconstruction-retrieval-guided-glyph-aware-restoration-for-low-resource-manchu-historical-documents.
Harvard
Huang, T., Wang, D., Liang, M. and Lu, S. (2026) 'Beyond Pixel Reconstruction: Retrieval-Guided Glyph-Aware Restoration for Low-Resource Manchu Historical Documents', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/beyond-pixel-reconstruction-retrieval-guided-glyph-aware-restoration-for-low-resource-manchu-historical-documents.
Vancouver
Huang T, Wang D, Liang M, Lu S. Beyond Pixel Reconstruction: Retrieval-Guided Glyph-Aware Restoration for Low-Resource Manchu Historical Documents. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/beyond-pixel-reconstruction-retrieval-guided-glyph-aware-restoration-for-low-resource-manchu-historical-documents
IEEE
T. Huang, D. Wang, M. Liang, and S. Lu, "Beyond Pixel Reconstruction: Retrieval-Guided Glyph-Aware Restoration for Low-Resource Manchu Historical Documents," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/beyond-pixel-reconstruction-retrieval-guided-glyph-aware-restoration-for-low-resource-manchu-historical-documents.