The 4th International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER 2025) aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals working at the intersection of computer vision, artificial intelligence, and cultural heritage. The workshop seeks to bridge the gap between computational methods and the humanities, fostering collaboration between AI researchers, art historians, and museum professionals.

We invite submissions on innovative research, ongoing projects, and industrial applications related to AI and computer vision in fine arts and cultural heritage. The goal is to advance state-of-the-art methodologies while ensuring that AI solutions align with the analytical depth expected in the humanities and cultural preservation sectors.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be made electronically via EasyChair.

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.

List of Topics

• Machine learning and deep learning for cultural heritage and digital humanities

• Creative AI and computational creativity

• Multimodal AI for art understanding

• Generative AI for artistic style transfer and restoration

• Explainable AI for art and cultural analysis

• AI-Driven art provenance and authentication

• Interactive AI and conversational agents for museums and galleries

• Personalized art recommendation systems using deep learning

• 3D reconstruction and point cloud processing of historical artifacts

• Content-based image retrieval and search in the art domain

• Speech, audio, and music analysis from historical archives

• Art history and computer vision

• Projects, products, and prototypes for cultural heritage restoration, preservation, and engagement

Organizing committee

• Gennaro Vessio, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
• Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
• Fabio Bellavia, University of Palermo, Italy
• Sinem Aslan, University of Milan, Italy
• Raffaele Scaringi, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
• Nicola Fanelli. University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Publication

All accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings of ICIAP 2025 as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.

Venue

The conference will be held in conjunction with ICIAP 2025, taking place in Rome, Italy, from 15 to 19 September 2025. The workshop will be held on either 15 or 16 September 2025. Further instructions will be published on the workshop website as soon as they become available.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to gennaro.vessio@uniba.it.