Pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques for cultural heritage

This paper is the editorial of the virtual special issue (VSI) “Pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques for cultural heritage”, of which the authors of this paper have been the guest editors. It aims to bring together the work of experts from the fields of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence and that of cultural heritage. This multidisciplinary subject covers a wide spectrum spanning from the study of the cultural heritage to the development of tools based on PR/AI techniques for cultural heritage analysis, reconstruction and understanding. The papers included in this special issue allowed us to highlight the advances on this subject from a wide-angle perspective, as well as to stimulate new theoretical and applied researches for better characterizing the state of the art in this domain.