Raissa Garozzo

University of Catania | UNICT · Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture

In recent years, laser scanning and other survey techniques have become popular for documenting and preserving architectural and structural heritage, including masonry bridges. These bridges require careful monitoring to ensure proper structural integrity analyses. However, analysing large datasets of complex point clouds can be challenging and tim...

Augmented reality is the process of using technology to superimpose video, images, text or sound onto what a person can already see with their own eyes in the reality around them. It is enough to have a smartphone or tablet to change the reality in front of you. In fact, by means of an app, the user can display on his or her device content related...

Masonry arch railway bridges represent a historically built heritage to be preserved. The multidisciplinary approach requires the construction of a common language, namely the creation of a formal conceptualisation of bridge domain that could serve as basis for both adding new layers of knowledge in H-BIM modeling and aiding the automatic segmentat...

p class="VARAbstract">This paper addresses the challenge of digitally reconstructing ruined architectural sites and retracing their history, in order to virtually recompose their geometrical, stylistic and material integrity. To this end, the research team analyzed the ruins of the church of Santa Maria de Monasterio Albo, located in the ancient vi...

This study shows the results of an interdisciplinary research aimed at devising artificial intelligence methods to support data understanding in Cultural Heritage. The objective is to create automated methods for automatically classifying and successively retrieving photographic data leveraging the current breed of AI methods based on Deep Learning...

Il contributo illustra gli esiti di una ricerca condotta sullo spazio urbano su cui si trova la scala monumentale che conduce alla Chiesa Madre di San Nicola di Bari, del piccolo comune di Trecastagni (CT), posto alle pendici dell’Etna, attraverso gli strumenti del disegno e del rilievo, l'analisi grafica, la ricerca storica, lo studio percettivo e...

The study proposes the experience conducted at the Museo Della Rappresentazione (MuRa) of Dicar, belonging to the Sistema Museale d’Ateneo of Catania. This museum keeps and exhibits the projects of some Sicilian architects who contributed to define the local architectural and urban identity. MuRa is both an archive for scholars and a museum that ex...

This paper describes the results of a participatory approach experienced during the training of university and high school students at the MuRa (Museo della Rappresentazione). Mura is a university museum belonging to the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at University of Catania. It houses and exhibits the collections of architectura...

This chapter combines traditional artificial intelligence (AI) concepts, i.e., computational ontologies, with more recent trends, i.e., deep learning for content-based semantic retrieval in Cultural Heritage. More specifically, the proposed AI-empowered system employs computational ontologies for modelling photographs of religious historical buildi...

This paper is focused on the valorization and the communication about the Mother church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in the Ancient Misterbianco (Catania), one of the rare surviving vestiges of the eruption of Mount Etna in 1669 and the earthquake in Val di Noto in 1693. The project, starting from a 3D digital surveys carried out through reality-bas...

The research proposes a novel and expeditious approach starting from direct and SfM (Structure from Motion) surveying up to H-BIM to provide a supporting tool to the knowledge of traditional bell towers, also useful for the seismic vulnerability assessment. The research draws on the possibility to enrich the H-BIM model with a semantic layer that t...

In recent years, there has been an increasing attention towards the use of the BIM (Building Information Modeling) approach in the cultural heritage domain. The stringent regulatory requirements in terms of BIM adoption in the field of public works in the short term will also have an impact on the historical heritage that characterises most Europea...

Nowadays 3D digital imaging constitute an effective solution for preserving the expression of human creativity across the centuries, as well as is a great tool to guarantee global dissemination of knowledge and wide access to these invaluable resources of the past. Nevertheless, in several cases, a massive digitization of cultural heritage items—f...

This paper proposes CulTO, a software tool relying on a computational ontology for Cultural Heritage domain modelling, with a specific focus on religious historical buildings, for supporting cultural heritage experts in their investigations. It is specifically thought to support annotation, automatic indexing, classification and curation of photogr...