Publications

2026

R. Petitpierre; D. Gomez Donoso; B. Kriesel

Semantic Segmentation Map Dataset (Semap)

2026.

Aggregated Database on the History of Cartography (ADHOC)

2026.

ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking

Y. Lin; S. Tual; Z. Li; L. Jang; Y. Y. Chiang et al.

2026. 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2025), Wuhan, China, 2025-09-16 – 2025-09-21. p. 568 – 585. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-04630-7_33.

Georeferencing historical maps using local feature matching and Delaunay consistency

B. Vaienti; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 2025. p. 1 – 23. DOI : 10.1080/15230406.2025.2566789.

I. Di Lenardo; R. G. Petitpierre

Lausanne 1831

Cinisello Balsamo Milano : Silvana Editoriale Spa, 2025.

LLM-Powered Agents for Navigating Venice’s Historical Cadastre

T. Karch; J. Saydaliev; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

2025

Recognizing and Sequencing Multi-word Texts in Maps Using an Attentive Pointer

M. Zou; T. Dai; R. Petitpierre; B. Vaienti; F. Kaplan et al.

2025

Segmentation and Clustering of Local Planimetric Distortion Patterns in Historical Maps of Jerusalem

B. Vaienti; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2025. Vol. 14, num. 3. DOI : 10.3390/ijgi14030132.

Paris and Jerusalem Maps Text Dataset

T. Dai; K. T. Johnson; R. G. Petitpierre; B. Vaienti; I. di Lenardo

2025.

M. Zou; R. G. Petitpierre; I. Di Lenardo

London 1890s Ordnance Survey Text Layer

2025.

Reconstructing Saint Mark’s Square in Venice: A 4D Model with Point Cloud Integration for Analyzing Historiographical Hypotheses

I. di Lenardo; B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; Y. Ubelmann; I. Bianchi et al.

Heritage. 2025. Vol. 8, num. 2. DOI : 10.3390/heritage8020075.

A Genealogy of Jerusalem Maps (1810-1925): Reconstructing Cartographic Lineages through Computational Methods

B. Vaienti / F. Kaplan; I. Di Lenardo (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.

The Skin of Venice: A Computational Approach to the City’s Urban Structure

P. Guhennec / F. Kaplan; I. Di Lenardo (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.

Cartographic Sign Detection Dataset (CaSiDD)

R. Petitpierre; J. Jiang

2025.

Studying Maps at Scale: A Digital Investigation of Cartography and the Evolution of Figuration

R. G. Petitpierre / F. Kaplan; I. Di Lenardo (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.

LLM agents for interactive exploration of historical cadastre data: framework and application to Venice

T. Karch; J. Saydaliev; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Computational Humanities Research. 2025. Vol. 1. DOI : 10.1017/chr.2025.10014.

The 1808 Napoleonic Land Registers of Venice: Spatial and Textual Dataset

I. Di Lenardo; C. Viaccoz; P. Guhennec; C. Musso; F. Kaplan

Journal of Open Humanities Data. 2025. Vol. 11, p. 67. DOI : 10.5334/johd.371.

Exploring cartographic genealogies through deformation analysis: case studies on ancient maps and synthetic data

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 2024. p. 1 – 21. DOI : 10.1080/15230406.2024.2424891.

Cartographic Stemmatology: Segmenting Local Deformation Similarities in Historical Maps of Jerusalem

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

2024. 18th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Bologna, Italy, 2024-10-23 – 2024-10-25.

R. G. Petitpierre; I. Di Lenardo; L. A. A. Rappo

Revealing the Structure of Land Ownership through the Automatic Vectorisation of Swiss Cadastral Plans

2024. Digital History Switzerland 2024, Basel, Switzerland, 2024-09-12 – 2024-09-13. DOI : 10.13140/RG.2.2.26632.33281.

I. Di Lenardo; P. Guhennec

A computational eye for an architectural history of Venetian facades

36th CIHA World Congress: Materiality in History of Architecture and Urban Planning: evolutions of techniques, perceptions and analyzes, Lyon, 2024-06-23 – 2024-06-28.

A fragment-based approach for computing the long-term visual evolution of historical maps

R. Petitpierre; J. H. Uhl; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. 2024. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 363. DOI : 10.1057/s41599-024-02840-w.

Artificial Intelligence for Digital Heritage Innovation: Setting up a R&D Agenda for Europe

S. Muenster; F. Maiwald; I. di Lenardo; J. Henriksson; A. Isaac et al.

Heritage. 2024. Vol. 7, num. 2, p. 794 – 816. DOI : 10.3390/heritage7020038.

Tracing Cartographic Errors in the Western Representation of 19th Century Jerusalem

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

2024. Digital Humanities 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2024-08-06 – 2024-08-09.

P. Guhennec; I. Di Lenardo

The Skin of Venice: Automatic Facade Extraction from Point Clouds

2023. ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14 2023. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107943.

1805-1898 Census Records of Lausanne : a Long Digital Dataset for Demographic History

R. Petitpierre; M. Kramer; L. Rappo; I. di Lenardo

2023.

R. G. Petitpierre; M. Kramer; L. A. A. Rappo

An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). 2023. DOI : 10.1007/s10032-023-00428-9.

R. Petitpierre; P. Guhennec

Effective annotation for the automatic vectorization of cadastral maps

Digital Scholarship In The Humanities. 2023. DOI : 10.1093/llc/fqad006.

Recartographier l’espace napoléonien : Une lecture computationnelle du cadastre historique de Lausanne

R. Petitpierre; L. Rappo; I. di Lenardo

2023. Humanistica 2023, Association francophone des humanités numériques, Geneva, Switzerland, June 26-28, 2023.

Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

L. Rappo; R. Petitpierre; M. Kramer

2023.

From Automated Bootstrapping to Collaborative Editing: A Framework for 4D City Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; D. Dupertuis; R. Petitpierre

2023. Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023. p. 310 – 313. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107906.

Mapping Memes in the Napoleonic Cadastre: Expanding Frontiers in Memetics

2023. Digital Humanities 2023 (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107916.

Ce que les machines ont vu et que nous ne savons pas encore

I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Sociétés & Représentations. 2023. num. 1, p. 249 – 267. DOI : 10.3917/sr.055.0249.

Machine-Learning-Enhanced Procedural Modeling for 4D Historical Cities Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; R. G. Petitpierre; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Remote Sensing. 2023. Vol. 15, num. 13, p. 3352. DOI : 10.3390/rs15133352.

A data structure for scientific models of historical cities: extending the CityJSON format

B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; I. di Lenardo

2022. 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, Seattle, Washington, November 1, 2022. p. 20 – 23. DOI : 10.1145/3557919.3565813.

The Replica Project: Co-Designing a Discovery Engine for Digital Art History

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2022. DOI : 10.3390/mti6110100.

R. G. Petitpierre; F. Kaplan; I. Di Lenardo

Generic Semantic Segmentation of Historical Maps

2021. CHR 2021: Computational Humanities Research Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 17-19, 2021. p. 228 – 248.

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Aux portes du monde miroir

I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Revue Histoire de l’art : Humanités numériques. 2021. Vol. 87.

Une approche computationnelle du cadastre napoléonien de Venise

I. Di Lenardo; R. Barman; F. Pardini; F. Kaplan

Humanités numériques. 2021. Vol. 3/2021, num. 3. DOI : 10.4000/revuehn.1786.

Historical City Maps Semantic Segmentation Dataset

2021.

I sistemi di immagini nell’archivio digitale di Vico Magistretti

Narrare con l’Archivio. Forum internazionale, 19 novembre 2020, Milan, Italy, Novembre 19, 2020.

The Advent of the 4D Mirror World

Urban Planning. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 307. DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i2.3133.

Reconstruire la densité historique du « Quartier Richelieu »

2020.

Neural networks for semantic segmentation of historical city maps: Cross-cultural performance and the impact of figurative diversity

R. G. Petitpierre

2020.

Building a Mirror World for Venice

The Aura in the Age of Digital Materiality : Rethinking Preservation in the Shadow of an Uncertain Future; Milan: SilvanaEditoriale, 2020.

A deep learning approach to Cadastral Computing

S. Ares Oliveira; I. di Lenardo; B. Tourenc; F. Kaplan

2019. Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2019.

Repopulating Paris: massive extraction of 4 Million addresses from city directories between 1839 and 1922

I. di Lenardo; R. Barman; A. B. Descombes; F. Kaplan

2019. Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht , the Netherlands, July 9-12, 2019. DOI : 10.34894/MNF5VQ.

Can Venice be saved?

S. Settis; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Apollo, The International Art Magazine. 2019.

Frederic Kaplan Isabella di Lenardo

Apollo-The International Art Magazine. 2019. Vol. 189, num. 671, p. 21 – 21.

New Techniques for the Digitization of Art Historical Photographic Archives – the Case of the Cini Foundation in Venice

B. L. A. Seguin; L. Costiner; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Archiving Conference. 2018. Vol. 2018, num. 1, p. 1 – 5. DOI : 10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2018.1.0.2.

Extracting And Aligning Artist Names in Digitized Art Historical Archives

B. Seguin; L. Costiner; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

2018. Digital Humanities Conference 2018 Puentes-Bridges, Mexico City, June 26-29, 2018.

Dürer tra Norimberga e Venezia, 1506-1507

Dürer e il Rinascimento, tra Germania e Italia; 24 Ore Cultura, 2018.

Making large art historical photo archives searchable

B. L. A. Seguin / F. Kaplan; I. di Lenardo (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018.

“Een Italische Keucken van Dirick de Vriese” The Commercialisation of the Artistic Identity between Venice and the ‘North’

Artibus Et Historiae. 2018. num. 78, p. 83 – 93.

B. L. A. Seguin; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

Tracking Transmission of Details in Paintings

2017. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), Montréal, Canada, 8-11 ; 08 ; 2017.

Big Data of the Past

Frontiers in Digital Humanities. 2017. Vol. 4, num. 12, p. 1 – 12. DOI : 10.3389/fdigh.2017.00012.

Optimized scripting in Massive Open Online Courses

Dariah Teach, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, March 23-24, 2017.

S. Ares Oliveira; I. di Lenardo

Machine Vision Algorithms on Cadaster Plans

Premiere Annual Conference of the International Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (DH 2017), Montreal, Canada, August 8-11, 2017.

S. Ares Oliveira; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

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Machine Vision Algorithms on Cadaster Plans

2017. Premiere Annual Conference of the International Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (DH 2017), Montreal, Canada, August 8-11, 2017.

I. di Lenardo; B. L. A. Seguin; F. Kaplan

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Visual Patterns Discovery in Large Databases of Paintings

2016. Digital Humanities 2016, Krakow, Polland, July 11-16, 2016.

Visual Link Retrieval in a Database of Paintings

B. L. A. Seguin; C. Striolo; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

2016. VISART Workshop, ECCV, Amsterdam, September, 2016. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_52.

Venice Time Machine : Recreating the density of the past

I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan

2015. Digital Humanities 2015, Sydney, June 29 – July 3, 2015.

Venezia e l’invenzione del paesaggio urbano tra laguna e città

Acqua e Cibo. Storie di Laguna e Città; Marsilio, 2015. p. 35 – 39.

Carlo Helman : merchant, patron and collector in the Antwerp – Venice migrant network

Art and Migration. Netherlandish Artists on the Move, 1400-1750; Leiden: Brill, 2014. p. 325 – 347.

“Cities of Fire”. Iconography, Fortune and the Circulation of Fire Paintings in Flanders and Italy in the XVI Century.

The Wounded City. The representation of Urban Disasters in European Art (XV-XX Centuries); Leiden: Brill, 2014. p. 100 – 115.

The Ghetto inside out

S. Bassi; I. di Lenardo

Venice: Corte del Fondego, 2013.

From calle to insula: the case of Santa Maria della Carità in Venice

Built city, designed city, virtual city, the museum of the city; Roma: Croma, 2013. p. 153 – 169.

The oltramontani Network in Venice: Hans von Aachen in Context

2010. Hans von Aachen in Context, Proceedings of the International Conference, Prague, September 22–25, 2010. p. 28 – 37.

The oltramontani Network in Venice: Hans von Aachen in Context

Hans von Aachen in Context : Proceedings of the International Conference, Prague 22–25 September 2010; Prague: Artefactum, 2010.