Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding (VIPERC 2023)

Background

Cultural heritage is related to all the tangible and intangible aspects of historical, archaeological, architectural and artistic relevance. Each item of cultural heritage tells legends and traditions of people, families, communities and countries worldwide. Cultural heritage is a precious return to the society to find its origin and build the future from the past. It is a relevant part of everyday life, visible everywhere, from ruins of ancient places to modern natural scenes and art.

Tangible items of the cultural heritage include ancient buildings, archaeological sites, monuments, sculptures, paintings, coins, underwater ruins and cities, shipwrecks, manuscripts, photographs, films and other elements of artistic, archaeological, architectural and historical value. Intangible items can collect the acoustic heritage of ancient buildings, traditional crafts and festivals, oral traditions and expressions, dialects and sub-dialects, music, culinary traditions and ways of life.

The process of knowledge discovery and representation from the cultural heritage mainly consists of the extraction, recognition and modelling of visual patterns, which become of prior importance for the analysis and exploration of hidden features, new hypotheses, relationships, trends, and modes from the data of cultural heritage. A visual pattern refers to any characteristic which can be captured by the human senses.

Today partly, the extraction, recognition and modelling of visual patterns have been accomplished using simulation models, artificial intelligence, software computing, information retrieval and statistical analysis in multiple real-life contexts and scenarios.

Goals

The 2nd International Conference on Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding aims to be a premier forum for presenting the state-of-the-art, new research, ongoing work, academic and project reports in advanced statistics and machine learning, 3D modelling and simulation, knowledge representation, intelligent systems, information retrieval and software engineering, for visual pattern extraction, analysis and recognition to preserve the cultural heritage.

VIPERC 2023 conference welcomes contributions from different research areas such as Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Modelling and Simulation. It is also proposed as a stimulating environment for Industrial partners that want to exhibit, describe and promote innovation in products and services and to show their features from a scientific and technological sight, and their impact under an economical and society view in the field of cultural heritage.