Accurate digital elevation models represent the basic tool for a large spectrum of
applications, including geological, architectonic, archaeological, and urbanistic studies …

In the coming years, Italy will need to take on a great challenge concerning the digitization of
its archaeological and architectural heritage, one of the richest and most problematic in the …

More and more digital 3D city models might evolve into spatiotemporal instruments with time
as the 4th dimension. For digitizing the current situation, 3D scanning and photography are …

Cultural heritage studies often require the analysis of buildings that have undergone several
changes and alterations during their lifetime. This often implies the loss of architectural …

The role of 3D virtual reconstruction of lost heritage artefacts is acquiring ever-greater
importance, as a support for archaeological research and art history studies, as well as a …

The advent of the metaverse, a large-scale three-dimensional networked virtual environment
that combines physical and digital world, has opened new avenues for preserving and …

This contribution proposes a workflow for a completely automatic orientation of historical
terrestrial urban images. Automatic structure from motion (SfM) software packages often fail …

The process for automatically creating 3D city models from contemporary photographs and
visualizing them on mobile devices is now well established, but historical 4D city models are …

The SFM photogrammetry (Structure from Motion) is a technique developed in the field of
computer vision that allows obtaining 3D models from images taken from different angles …

This contribution shows the comparison, investigation, and implementation of different
access strategies on multimodal data. The first part of the research is structured as a …