5th DARIAH-HR International Conference Digital Humanities & Heritage 2025

MobiLab participated in the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference Digital Humanities & Heritage, which was held in Osijek, Croatia, from October 22nd to 24th, 2025.

Our contribution, presented during the poster session (viewable here), was titled “3D in Cultural Heritage: 25 years of (r)evolution from the new millennium to AI”.

The research analyzed how 3D technologies consolidated their position in the methodology for documenting, analyzing, and disseminating cultural heritage between 2000 and 2025. This evolution, which profoundly transformed tools, workflows, and costs, established Digital Heritage as an autonomous and mature discipline.

The analysis focused on the two fundamental research lines of 3D: the acquisition of tangible heritage and 3D modelling for historical reconstruction.

Regarding acquisition, the poster illustrated the transition from initial systems like 3D Scanners and Structure from Motion (SfM) applications to the recent techniques of Generative AI (GenAI), such as Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). These innovations were shown to increase accessibility by enabling high-resolution acquisition straight from video with minimal post-processing.

For historical modelling, the research mapped the fragmentation of the methodological workflow: moving from a single-software environment to the combined use of various specialized applications.

Finally, the study highlighted the impact of AI, which, by automating the creation of complete 3D models from image or text input, is opening new frontiers for the realization of historical virtual scenes and digital characters.