The ambition of SUMAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current trends in the analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub-fields of machine learning, signal processing, multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics:

– Information retrieval for multimedia heritage

– Automated archaeology and heritage data processing

– Multi-modal deep learning and time series analysis for heritage data

– Heritage modeling, visualization, and virtualization

– Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data

– Open heritage data and bench-marking

The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes:

– Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts

– Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation

– Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage

– Education

– Smart and sustainable tourism

– Urban planning

– Digital Twins

– Paper submission: July 24, 2023 

– Author acceptance notification: August 9, 2023

– Camera-Ready: August 12, 2023

– Workshop date: TBA (29 Oct – 3 Nov, 2023)

Best Paper Award: following tradition, SUMAC 2023 will also be awarding a best paper award, accompanied with a certificate and a trophy. 

Journal Special Issue: authors of the best papers from SUMAC 2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version for consideration for Special Issue on Cultural Heritage in the Springer journal Multimedia Tools and Applications.

*** Submission guidelines: see website https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2023/  

Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN – Gustave Eiffel University, France)

Ronak Kosti (Picsart AI Research Lab, Germany)

Li Weng (Zhejiang Financial College, China)

Looking forward to seeing you in Ottawa!

The workshop organizers