AIxIA 2026 · Workshop

AI4CH 2026

Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage

Tuesday, 6th October – “Pittura 2” room

10:30–16:00 11 accepted contributions 3 thematic sessions Invited talk

Opening

Welcome and Opening

Workshop Chairs

10:30–10:40

Opening

Welcome and Opening

Rossana Damiano · Stefano Ferilli · Manuel Striani · Gianmaria Silvello · Maria Angela Pellegrino

Invited Talk

Industry Invited Talk

Chair: Manuel Striani

10:40–11:30

Invited Talk · 50 min

AI-Powered Visual Fingerprinting for Cultural Heritage Authentication

Giorgio Fornara — Digital Téchne Sagl, Lugano, Switzerland

11:30–11:50 · Break

Session 1

Historical Documents and Manuscript Analysis

Chair: Rossana Damiano

11:50–12:05

Toward an AI-based Tool for Paleographic Analysis – A Global Approach to the Scribal Characterization Step

Stefano Ferilli · Domiziana Piscopo

12:05–12:20

Hands in the Dark: Semantically Rich Explanations for Open-Set Scribal Hand Discovery in Historical Manuscripts

Serena Ammirati · Riccardo De Cesaris · Paolo Merialdo · Antonella Poggi · Riccardo Torlone · Alessio Vernarelli

12:20–12:35

Augmenting Historical Research through AI: A Case Study on Norcia (Italy) 1859

Sara Alimenti · Carla Binucci · Giulio Biondi · Emilio Di Giacomo · Fabrizio Grosso · Marco Legittimo · Giuseppe Liotta · Regina Lupi · Paola Venuti

12:35–12:50

A Multi-Agent Methodological Framework Enabling Knowledge-Based Digital Research Platforms for Cultural Heritage

Michele Colombino · Matteo Miceli · Laurentiu Jr Marius Zaharia · Francesca Davida Pizzigoni · Fabio Ciravegna

12:50–13:00

Discussion

Plenary Discussion for Session 1

13:00–14:00 · 🍔 Lunch Break

Session 2

Knowledge-Based and Generative AI for Heritage Access

Chair: Manuel Striani

14:00–14:15

Knowledge-based Personalization of Cultural Heritage Fruition through User Profiles: The HERITAS Project

Saba Asrary · Stefano Ferilli

14:15–14:30

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Exploring the Catalogues of Pistoia Museums

Luca Bindini · Marco Lippi · Simone Marinai

14:30–14:45

Tracing Moral Values in LLMs: Towards A Dataset for Interpretability in Cultural Narrative Generation

Chiara Fulfaro · Enrico Mensa · Rossana Damiano

14:45–14:55

Discussion

Plenary Discussion for Session 2

Session 3

Multimodal Analysis of Artworks and Intangible Heritage

Chair: Stefano Ferilli

14:55–15:10

GRAIL: A Multimodal Genomic, Visual, and Blockchain Framework for Cultural Heritage Authentication

Giorgio Fornara · Roberto Pirrone · Stefania Montani · Manuel Striani

15:10–15:25

Synthetic Multi-View Learning for Artist Attribution

Loris Bottegoni · Leonardo Cambiotti · Valerio Crocetti · Yassir Flavio Suarez Sanchez · Malvina Halilaj · Aldo Franco Dragoni

15:25–15:40

Multimodal Dataset Normalization and Perceptual Validation for Music–Taste Correspondences

Matteo Spanio · Valentina Frezzato · Antonio Rodà

15:40–15:55

Reconstructing Performed Homer: Metrically Constrained Speech Synthesis for Ancient Greek Epic

Federico Di Pasqua · Markus Hafner · Pierfrancesco Melucci · Paolo Merialdo · Riccardo Torlone

Closing

Closing and Wrap up

15:55–16:00