ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Course code
CM0579 (AF:513709 AR:286736)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
INF/01
Period
1st Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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This course is one of the activities of the master's degree program in Conservation Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage that enable the student to gain knowledge and understanding of foundational and advanced concepts in mathematical-statistical and computer science. The course aims to provide an overview of basic and advanced computational methodologies and tools for digitization, management and analysis of cultural heritage data.
By the end of the course, the student will be able to choose among different digitization techniques, organize and create relational and geospatial databases, and apply data analysis and computer vision methods on their own data.
Use of a calculator, statistics, calculus, computational thinking
Media acquisition/Digitalization:
- Cameras
- Color vision and models
- Image data compression
- Panoramic Images
- Multi/hyper-spectral imaging
- Vectorial Images
- 3D data acquisition
- 3D reconstruction from multiple images

Storage and Data organization
- Relational databases
- GIS (Geographic Information System), QGIS

Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence:
- Image Processing
- Fundations of Artificial Intelligence
- Image classification
- Image segmentation
- Object detection
Materials provided on Moodle by the teacher.
The exam consists of a written test on Moodle comprising a combination of multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions and a design exercise that requires the student to demonstrate his/her ability to analyze and solve a problem by means of the methodologies taught during the course.

The exam aims to verify the understanding of the theoretical concepts introduced during the course and the student's ability to apply them to real-world scenarios.
Frontal lectures and laboratory activities
English
written
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 08/03/2024