5th International Conference on Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding

Pescara, 21-22 July 2027

Background and Goals

The VIPERC 2027 Conference on Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding aims to be an international event, presenting academic and industry papers on big data, data mining and knowledge discovery, machine learning and deep learning, 3D modelling and simulation (structural, thermal, functional and acoustic analysis), software engineering, and, more generally, aspects related to digital transition for visual pattern extraction, analysis, and recognition to preserve cultural heritage.

VIPERC 2027 welcomes contributions from various research areas related to the digitization of cultural heritage, building recovery, conservation, and maintenance, leveraging current technologies and the support of robotics and automation.

It also favours the participation of young research scholars who want to present their early-stage in-progress academic work.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Disruptive technologies

• Machine learning and data science for cultural heritage multimedia data
• Artificial intelligence in the recovery, analysis, and enhancement of cultural heritage
• Augmented and virtual reality systems
• 3D printing
• Internet of things in cultural heritage

Diagnostics

• Intelligent sensor systems for building monitoring, recovery, conservation, maintenance and art restoration
• Discrete geometry techniques for pattern recognition and pattern matching in cultural heritage images
• Image processing, texture, shape analysis and natural language processing in historical data

Acoustics and digital technology

• Acoustics in cultural heritage
• Soundscape planning and preservation

Analysis

• 3D reconstruction and model processing
• 3D modelling and simulation (e.g. structural, thermal, functional and acoustic analysis) for cultural heritage
• Remote sensing for cultural heritage preservation
• Surrogate models (computational models that approximate the behaviour of complex systems or processes)

Manufacturing and intervention

• Robotics and digital manufacturing for built heritage
• Digitization of industrial products, projects, prototypes, and artefacts for cultural heritage preservation
• Cutting-edge and sustainable digital-supported materials for built heritage
• Metamaterials fabricated with specific patterns
• Climate changes and intelligent mitigation strategies to preserve cultural heritage sites 

VIPERC 2027 is technically co-sponsored by the International Neural Network Society (INNS)