Our applications emphasize how new digital technologies can be used for analysis, promotion, dissemination, and accessibility of cultural heritage. The initiatives cover the area of virtual heritage and can be categorized based on their function:

• 3D Reconstruction
• Accessibility of Works of Art
• Augmented Reality and Multimedia Applications
• Image Processing

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Latest publications

• Virginio Cantoni, Luca Goretti, Mirto Musci, Alessandra Setti (2025). Virtual reconstruction of frescoes using generative AI: the case study of Mirabello castle, in Vito Cappellini ed., Electronic Media & the Visual Arts: EVA 2025, Florence, 26 May 2025, Leonardo Libri srl, pp. 22-27, ISBN: 978-88-596-2494-3.
• Martina Bellotti, Virginio Cantoni, Piercarlo Dondi, Alessio Gullotti, Luca Lombardi, Mauro Mosconi, Mirto Musci, Alessandra Setti (2024). 3D modeling for promotion of historical buildings: Mirabello Castle, past and present, in Vito Cappellini ed., Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts: EVA 2024, Florence, 27 May 2024, Polistampa, pp. 21-26.
• Piercarlo Dondi, Marco Porta (2023). Gaze-Based Human–Computer Interaction for Museums and Exhibitions: Technologies, Applications and Future Perspectives, in Electronics, 12(14):3064, DOI:10.3390/electronics12143064.
• Virginio Cantoni, Mauro Mosconi, Alessandra Setti (2023). New Technologies and the Support and Accessibility of Cultural Heritage, in Proceedings of the 24^th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies - CompSysTech’23, University of Ruse (Bulgaria), 16-17 June 2023, pp. 1-8, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States, DOI:10.1145/3606305.3606336.
• Alireza Rezaei, Emanuel Aldea, Piercarlo Dondi, Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle, Marco Malagodi (2023). Multi-temporal image analysis for preventive conservation of historical musical instruments, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Volume 16, Issue 2 Article No.: 35, pp. 1–19, DOI:10.1145/3575866.
• Virginio Cantoni, Elena Fede, Luca Lombardi, Mirto Musci, Alessandra Setti, Nikolay Stoimenov, Deborah Tandurella (2023). 3D Sculptures of the Ark of St. Augustine: the Apostles and the Angelic Hierarchies, in Vito Cappellini ed., Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts: EVA 2023 Florence, 5 June 2023, Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, pp. 32-39.