[2603.28474] CiQi-Agent: Aligning Vision, Tools and Aesthetics in Multimodal Agent for Cultural Reasoning on Chinese Porcelains

Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2603.28474 (cs) [Submitted on 30 Mar 2026] Title:CiQi-Agent: Aligning Vision, Tools and Aesthetics in Multimodal Agent for Cultural Reasoning on Chinese Porcelains Authors:Wenhan Wang, Zhixiang Zhou, Zhongtian Ma, Yanzhu Chen, Ziyu Lin, Hao Sheng, Pengfei Liu, Honglin Ma, Wenqi Shao, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yu Qiao View a PDF of the paper titled CiQi-Agent: Aligning Vision, Tools and Aesthetics in Multimodal Agent for Cultural Reasoning on Chinese Porcelains, by Wenhan Wang and 10 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The connoisseurship of antique Chinese porcelain demands extensive historical expertise, material understanding, and aesthetic sensitivity, making it difficult for non-specialists to engage. To democratize cultural-heritage understanding and assist expert connoisseurship, we introduce CiQi-Agent -- a domain-specific Porcelain Connoisseurship Agent for intelligent analysis of antique Chinese porcelain. CiQi-Agent supports multi-image porcelain inputs and enables vision tool invocation and multimodal retrieval-augmented generation, performing fine-grained connoisseurship analysis across six attributes: dynasty, reign period, kiln site, glaze color, decorative motif, and vessel shape. Beyond attribute classification, it captures subtle visual details, retrieves relevant domain knowledge, and integrates visual and textual evidence to produce coherent, explainable connoisseurship descriptions....