Location-Based Technology for Real-Time Artifact Recognition in Businesses

Abstract

The recognition of historical artifacts play a crucial role in sustaining cultural heritage and advancing tourism. Despite advancements in object detection technologies, accurately identifying artifacts in diverse geographical and environmental contexts remains a significant challenge. Existing models often struggle to adapt to region-specific features and the complexity of historical artifacts, limiting their practical applications. To address these limitations, this study evaluates the potential of YOLOv4, YOLOv7-X, and YOLOv9c models for historical artifact recognition, with a particular focus on location-based segmentation. Geographically distinct datasets were utilized for training and evaluation, enabling the models to achieve higher accuracy in region-specific artifact detection. Among the tested models, YOLOv9c demonstrated superior performance, achieving the highest metrics across accuracy (96%), precision (93%), recall (95%), and mean average precision (mAP, 71%), making it the best-performing model. These results highlight YOLOv9c’s robustness and adaptability to complex datasets and diverse artifact characteristics. A user-friendly application interface was also developed, allowing real-time detection and providing detailed historical information about the artifacts. However, challenges such as the high computational cost of training YOLOv9c on high-resolution datasets were observed, particularly when compared to YOLOv4, which was computationally efficient but less accurate. YOLOv7-X offered a balance between performance and computational efficiency. The results demonstrate that location-based segmentation significantly enhances detection accuracy, making this approach highly effective for real-world applications in cultural heritage preservation and tourism.