arXiv:2606. 09855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Korean folk painting (minhwa) is built from a small vocabulary of auspicious symbols, a tiger for protection, a pair of birds for marital harmony, a peony for wealth, that recur across many of its painted genres.
By Joonhyung Bae
We introduce ChinaHeritaQA, a multimodal benchmark dataset for evaluating the cultural reasoning abilities of vision-language models (VLMs) on UNESCO World Heritage sites in China. The dataset comprises 2,279 in-the-wild images paired with 14,133 bilingual (Chinese/English) multiple-choice QA pairs spanning seven cognitive dimensions, from basic identity recognition to historical periodization and architectural analysis.
Vision-language models (VLMs) have made interactive digital museums increasingly feasible by connecting 3D digitization with natural-language artifact exploration. However, in cultural heritage domains such as ancient Greek pottery, reliable VLM assistance is limited by two challenges.
arXiv:2606. 30026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audiovisual arts encompass diverse creative disciplines, including cinema, visual arts, stage performance, and game design, where artistic meaning arises from deliberate combinations of visual, auditory, and narrative elements (e.
By Yuxuan Fan, Gyusik Seo, Jing Hao, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal, Jaehong Yoon
arXiv:2608. 06751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artist-grounded image generation requires more than appending an artist name to a prompt.
By Kuan Xing, Ye Wang, Changyi Gan, Yuheng Li, Thao Nguyen, Yi Chang, Yilin Wang
arXiv:2606. 24984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning representations that remain robust across centuries of variation in handwriting is a key challenge in diachronic representation learning.
By John Pavlopoulos, Spyros Barbakos, Lavinia Ferretti, Dionysis Voulgarakis, Asimina Paparrigopoulou, Maria Konstantinidou, Giuseppe De Gregorio, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Paraskevi Platanou, Holger Essler
arXiv:2605. 16409v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography.
By Qinwu Xu, Yifan Jiang, Haoyu Ren
arXiv:2608. 11741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The scholarly exegesis of ancient Chinese characters demands integrating visual observation, linguistic analysis, and historical context.
By Ran Li, Huiguo He, Jiahuan Cao, Junle Liu, Hiuyi Cheng, Lianwen Jin
arXiv:2608. 14032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing multimodal RAG methods often flatten structured documents into isolated text and image units, weakening the source organization and local text-image logic needed for faithful evidence selection and placement.
By Yin Li, Ziyang Hu, Zhiyu Guo, Xiangyu Liu, Wenbin Li, Boo-Ho Yang, Rav Lawana, Ziyue Li, Wei Zeng, Fugee Tsung
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether newer generative models are getting better at pastiching contemporary artworks.
arXiv:2608. 06938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The visual reasoning ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is crucial for downstream applications, particularly counter-commonsense reasoning, which requires models to reason beyond common assumptions.
By Chen Ling, Hanqian Li, Dongnan Liu, Keyu Qian, Jungang Li, Xinglong liu, Shiyi Wang, Xin Dong, Pengcheng Zhu, Wei Zhou, Linjian Mo, Nai Ding
The scholarly exegesis of ancient Chinese characters demands integrating visual observation, linguistic analysis, and historical context. However, existing computational approaches focus narrowly on subtasks such as character recognition and retrieval, lacking the structured datasets and benchmarks required for comprehensive scholarly analysis.