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Generative AI in Digital Cultural Heritage

Professor, Director of IXLAB at IXLAB - Dresden University of Technology

Dresden, Germany

About

From image restoration and enhancements and AI "in-painting" and "out-painting" to fill in gaps, to tghe creation of 3D models from images and reconstruction of entire virtual places or structures from fragments, generative AI promises to radically transform both the digitisation of artefacts and the capture of intangible heritage. However, it produces new challenges regarding veridicality and truth. How will we clearly mark out what is "true" and what is "inferred"? This is particularly true when considering future researchers may only have access to the virtual copy of artefacts.

In this project we research and pilot methods for the adoption of generative AI in the digitisation of museum archives.

Desired Partners: Museum and heritage institutions, researchers in digital cultural heritage, AI, XR and relevant technologies.

HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-03: AI integration in CCSI work practice: catalysing innovation and competitiveness

HORIZON-CL2-2027-01-HERITAGE-08: Safeguarding & transmission of intangible cultural heritage

HORIZON-CL2-2027-02-HERITAGE-09-two-stage: Open topic: Impact-driven research on realising the full potential of cultural heritage, arts and cultural and creative industries

Stage

  • Ideation - identifying the project idea
  • Design - setting the project scope
  • Completing the consortia

Call

  • Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries

Type

  • Partners for an existing consortium
  • A consortium to join as partner

Organisation

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    Researcher at eM+ Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL

    Lausanne, Switzerland