VIPERC 2025
Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding 2025

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 20 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 14 papers were accepted for this volume.

Session 1: AI and data science for cultural heritage (Chair: Prof. Luciano Caroprese)

• MULTI-TWIN: AI-based Digital Twins for Multi-Risk Analysis of Historic Centers
  Cristina Cantagallo, Giorgia Cianchino, Guido Camata, Luigi Berardi, Samuel Bignardi, Paolo Boncio, Giuseppe Brando, Maria Giovanna Masciotta, Bruno Pace, Valerio Piattelli, Simone Ripani, Enrico Spacone, Giovanna Vessia, Luciano Caroprese
• Empowering Clients: Transformation of Design Processes Due to Generative AI
  Johannes Schneider, Sinem Kilic, Daniel Stockhammer
• Scalable Multimedia Retrieval in Cultural Heritage Archives Using Big-Data Analytics
  Zulfiqar Ali, Israr Ur Rehman, Rehan Ali Qazi, Muhammad Ismail, Umair Shabbir, Muhammad Bilal Khan

Session 2: Acoustics and soundscape preservation (Chairs: Dr. David Ramirez-Solana, Dr. Samantha Di Loreto)

• Acoustic Heritage Mapping of Florence Historic Center: A Digital Soundscape Preservation Approach along the Vasari Corridor
  Samantha Di Loreto, Alessandro Ricciutelli, Valentino Sangiorgio, Sergio Montelpare
• TPMS Wall Patterns to Improve Acoustic Diffusion in Cultural Heritage
  David Ramirez-Solana, Valentino Sangiorgio, Javier Redondo, Muhammad Gulzari
• Acoustics of Vanvitelli's place
  Gino Iannace

Session 3: Smart diagnostics and pattern recognition (Chairs: Prof. Christian Morbidoni, Dr. Alessandro Ricciutelli)

• EpiSignum: Taxonomy and Annotated Dataset for Symbol Recognition in Late Antique Latin Inscriptions
  Alessandro Locaputo, Martina Siderini, Davide Redaelli, Andrea Brunello, Nicola Saccomanno, Stefano Magnani, Giuseppe Serra
• The Gestalt Principles for Cultural Heritage Understanding. The Ermete Novelli Theater Case Study: an a-Posteriori Methodological Application
  Regina Finocchiaro, Samuele Biondi, Sergio Montelpare
• OMVMLP: 3D Texture Classification by Orthographic Multi-View Data Characterization and MLP (short paper)
  Ahmed Hazem Youssef, Halim Benhabiles, Adnane Cabani, Ruiwen He, Karim Hammoudi

Session 4: 3D reconstruction and simulation (Chairs: Dr. Cristina Cantagallo, Dr. Davide Rapone)

• Collection of 3D Data Useful for Surveying and Digitizing Cultural Heritage Using UAV Photogrammetry and Lidar Sensors: Iuvanum 3D Dataset
  Massimiliano Pepe, Donato Palumbo, Ahmed Dewedar
• Is OpenAI the Future for Historical 3D Reconstruction? Analysis of a Suitable Pipeline Applied to the Iuvanum Case Study
  Vincenzo Saverio Alfio, Alessia Amelio, Massimiliano Pepe, Domenica Costantino

Session 5: Special Session ETech-CH: Emerging Technologies for History and Memory. Cultural and Industrial Heritage Between Complexity and Digital Transformation (Chairs: Prof. Christian Morbidoni, Dr. Jacopo Bassetta)

• AnRoll: Analytic Unrolling of Painted Pottery Surfaces
  Aaron Giner, Reinhold Preiner
• Industrial Landscapes, Photographic Description and Generative AI: Testing GPT-5.0 'Thinking' and 'Instant'
  Elisa Angeles Fernandez
• Decoding Diplomacy: GPT in Historical Archives, AI neutrality, Linguistic Biases and Multilingual Challenges (Tunisia Czechoslovakia, 1956–1992)
  Amani Mansouri