IAI4CH 2026
Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 11 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 4 were accepted as full papers and 7 as short papers.

Invited Industry Talk

• AI-Powered Visual Fingerprinting for Cultural Heritage Authentication
  Giorgio Fornara (Digital Téchne Sagl, Lugano, Switzerland)

Session 1: Historical Documents and Manuscript Analysis

• Toward an AI-based Tool for Paleographic Analysis – A Global Approach to the Scribal Characterization Step (full paper) 1-12
  Stefano Ferilli, Domiziana Piscopo
• Hands in the Dark: Semantically Rich Explanations for Open-Set Scribal Hand Discovery in Historical Manuscripts (short paper) 13-20
  Serena Ammirati, Riccardo De Cesaris, Paolo Merialdo, Antonella Poggi, Riccardo Torlone, Alessio Vernarelli
• Augmenting Historical Research through AI: A Case Study on Norcia (Italy) 1859 (short paper) 21-26
  Sara Alimenti, Carla Binucci, Giulio Biondi, Emilio Di Giacomo, Fabrizio Grosso, Marco Legittimo, Giuseppe Liotta, Regina Lupi, Paola Venuti
• A Multi-Agent Methodological Framework Enabling Knowledge-Based Digital Research Platforms for Cultural Heritage (full paper) 27-36
  Michele Colombino, Matteo Miceli, Laurentiu Jr Marius Zaharia, Francesca Davida Pizzigoni, Fabio Ciravegna

Session 2: Knowledge-Based and Generative AI for Heritage Access

• Knowledge-based Personalization of Cultural Heritage Fruition through User Profiles: A proposal for the HERITAS Project (short paper) 37-44
  Saba Asrari
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Exploring the Catalogues of Pistoia Museums (short paper) 45-50
  Luca Bindini, Marco Lippi, Simone Marinai
• Tracing Moral Values in LLMs: Towards a Dataset for Interpretability in Cultural Narrative Generation (short paper) 51-59
  Chiara Fulfaro, Enrico Mensa, Rossana Damiano

Session 3: Multimodal Analysis of Artworks and Intangible Heritage

• GRAIL: A Multimodal Genomic, Visual, and Blockchain Framework for Cultural Heritage Authentication (short paper) 60-67
  Giorgio Fornara, Roberto Pirrone, Stefania Montani, Manuel Striani
• Synthetic Multi-View Learning for Artist Attribution (full paper) 68-77
  Loris Bottegoni, Leonardo Cambiotti, Valerio Crocetti, Yassir Flavio Suarez Sanchez, Malvina Halilaj, Aldo Franco Dragoni
• Multimodal Dataset Normalization and Perceptual Validation for Music–Taste Correspondences (full paper) 78-87
  Matteo Spanio, Valentina Frezzato, Antonio Rodà
• Reconstructing Performed Homer: Metrically Constrained Speech Synthesis for Ancient Greek Epic (short paper) 88-95
  Federico Di Pasqua, Markus Hafner, Pierfrancesco Melucci, Paolo Merialdo, Riccardo Torlone