This paper provides an overview of some of the most relevant deep learning approaches to
pattern extraction and recognition in visual arts, particularly painting and drawing. Recent …

This paper reviews the literature concerning technology used for creating and delivering
accessible museum and cultural heritage sites experiences. It highlights the importance of …

The growing availability of large collections of digitized artworks has disclosed new
opportunities to develop intelligent systems for the automatic analysis of fine arts. Among …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society have received a great deal of attention in
the past five years since the first Stanford AI100 report. AI already globally impacts …

Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI advocate for AI technology that is, among other things,
more inclusive. Explainable AI (XAI) aims at making state of the art opaque models more …

Cultural heritage images are among the primary media for communicating and preserving
the cultural values of a society. The images represent concrete and abstract content and …

To automatically generate accurate and meaningful textual descriptions of images is an
ongoing research challenge. Recently, a lot of progress has been made by adopting …

Image captioning implies automatically generating textual descriptions of images based only
on the visual input. Although this has been an extensively addressed research topic in …

Art and humanities fields can all benefit from the wide range of digital materials,
methodologies, and tools available to researchers. It is the merging of conventional …

This paper is the editorial of the virtual special issue (VSI)“Pattern recognition and artificial
intelligence techniques for cultural heritage”, of which the authors of this paper have been …