FAPER 2025 : 4th International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition

Aim & Scope

Cultural heritage, especially fine arts, plays an invaluable role in our societies’ cultural, historical, and economic growth. Fine arts are primarily developed for aesthetic purposes and are mainly expressed through painting, sculpture, and architecture. In recent years, thanks to technological improvements and drastic cost reductions, a large-scale digitization effort has been made, which has led to the increasing availability of large digitized fine art collections. This availability, coupled with recent advances in computer vision, has disclosed new opportunities, especially for researchers in this field, to assist the art community with automatic tools to analyze and better understand fine arts. Among other benefits, a deeper understanding of fine arts has the potential to make them more accessible to a broader population, both in terms of fruition and creation, thus supporting the spread of culture.

Following the success of the first three editions, the workshop aims to provide an international forum for those wishing to present advancements in state-of-the-art, innovative research, ongoing projects, and academic and industrial reports on applying visual pattern extraction and recognition for a better understanding and fruition of fine arts. The workshop solicits contributions from computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and image processing.

FAPER is promoted by the IAPR Technical Committee 19 (Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications (https://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IAPR-TC19/).


Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Computer vision and multimedia data processing for fine arts
- Creative AI
- 3D reconstruction of historical artifacts
- Point cloud segmentation and classification for cultural heritage
- Content-based retrieval in the art domain
- Smart interactive experiences in cultural sites
- Visual question answering and artwork captioning
- Art history and computer vision
- Projects, products, or prototypes for cultural heritage restoration, preservation, and fruition


Submission guidelines

All submissions must be made electronically via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faper2025).

Authors are required to prepare their papers following the Springer guidelines. The manuscript must not exceed 12 pages, including references. Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process and will be evaluated based on originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance, and technical quality.

Upon acceptance, at least one author must register for the event, attend the workshop, and present the paper orally.


Important Dates

- Workshop submission deadline: June 13, 2025 *extended*
- Author notification: July 4, 2025
- Camera-ready submission: July 10, 2025
- Registration: TBA
- Workshop date: September 15 or 16, 2025


Organizing committee

Gennaro Vessio (University of Bari, Italy)
Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy)
Fabio Bellavia (University of Palermo, Italy)
Sinem Aslan (University of Milan, Italy)
Raffaele Scaringi (University of Bari, Italy)
Nicola Fanelli (University of Bari, Italy)


Venue

The ICIAP 2025 main conference and workshops will be held at Sapienza University of Rome. See https://sites.google.com/view/iciap25 for more information