Overview
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the study, preservation, and interpretation of cultural and artistic heritage. With the rapid expansion of digital archives and datasets, computational methods have become essential for analyzing, classifying, and enhancing a wide range of historical and artistic materials.
This special session aims to bring together researchers from computer vision, AI, and cultural and artistic heritage studies to foster multidisciplinary collaboration and showcase the latest advancements in AI-driven methodologies. We focus on machine learning techniques applied to textual, visual, and multimodal data to deepen our understanding of cultural artifacts, artworks, and historical records.
We invite contributions on AI innovations in cultural and artistic heritage analysis, including text recognition, image classification, restoration, and multimodal interpretation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Image Analysis & Artifact Classification
- AI-driven Reconstruction, Restoration and Enhancement of Cultural and Artistic Artifacts
- Machine Learning for Historical Document Understanding
- Computational Systems for Creativity
- Multimodal AI Approaches for Cultural Heritage Analysis
- AI in Art History and Artistic Style Analysis
- Understanding AI-generated images in the context of art and culture.
This special session is promoted by the IAPR Technical Committee 19 (Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications).
Important Dates:
- Deadline for paper submissions: May 10, 2025
- Notification of paper acceptance: June 24, 2025 (Tentative)
- Deadline for camera-ready paper submissions: July 15, 2025 (Tentative)
- Special session date:: TBW
Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit 6 pages full-length papers, including figures and references.
All accepted and presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore .
Please observe that MLSP uses a double-blind review process. Thus, it is important that all potentially identifying information (such as author names and affiliations) is removed from the initial submission pdf file. For further information, please follow the guidelines provided on the main conference website .
Organizers
Sinem Aslan
Hazım Kemal Ekenel
Gennaro Vessio
Hassan Ugail
Anthony Bourached
Gabriele Gattiglia
Technical Program Committee
- Bahar Aydemir, EPFL, Switzerland
- Federico Beccatini, University of Siena, Italy
- Fabio Bellavia, University of Palermo, Italy
- Deblina Bhattacharjee, University of Bath, UK
- Herve Le Borgne, CEA-List, France
- Guillaume Caron, CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, Japan
- Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
- Eva Cetinic, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Lucia Cipolina Kun, University of Bristol, UK
- Giovanni Colavizza, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Aykut Erdem, Koç University, Turkey
- Erkut Erdem, Hacettepe University, Turkey
- Sara Ferro, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
- Marco Fiorucci, University of Padova, Italy
- Martin Kampel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Ronak Kosti, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany
- Melda Küçükdemirci, Istanbul University, Turkey
- Albert Ali Salah, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Mathias Zinnen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany
Keynote Speaker
David G. Stork, Stanford University (To be Confirmed)
Program
Schedule and session details.
Registration
Each accepted paper must be covered by at least one registered author.
More information is available on the main conference website .
Venue
Special session will be held at Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre . More information is available on the main conference website .