SUMAC 2025

The 7th workshop on analysis, understanding
and promotion of heritage contents

Advances in machine learning, signal processing,
multimodal techniques and human-machine interaction

In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2025
27 October, 2025, Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)



News and Updates


Overview

The seventh version of the SUMAC (analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents) workshop, like its predecessors, focuses on analyzing, processing and valorizing all types of data related to cultural heritage, including tangible and intangible heritage. As stated by UNESCO, cultural heritage provides societies with a wealth of resources inherited from the past, created in the present for the benefit of future generations.

Digital heritage data acquired are naturally massive and address a large diversity of monomodal modalities (text, structured referentials, image, video, 3D, music, sensor data). Their processing and promotion put into light several scientific challenges as well as various new use cases that are of topical interest today for the ACM Multimedia community, both for academics and industries. Like in the previous editions, we will strive to value the sharing of knowledge, algorithms and experiments; and also open source software and open data, by encouraging the submission of articles that promote this sharing policy.

Abundant heritage data is available in the most recent years. Older data, that can be called the big data of the past, are mostly locked -- they currently remain largely “hidden” from the public, in galleries, libraries, archives, museums or data producers' infrastructures. Processing heritage data to increase their visibility will act as a game changer and contribute to a large panel of communities, by enabling an outstanding pool of inter-operable data, not only as a service to citizens but also to public or private actors, by challenging the research methods at the crossing of computer science, artificial intelligence and digital humanities.


Call for Papers

The ambition of SUMAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current trends in the analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub-fields of machine learning, signal processing, multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics:

  • Monomodal analysis: image, text, video, 3D, music, sensor data and structured referentials
  • Information retrieval for multimedia heritage
  • Automated archaeology and heritage data processing
  • Multi-modal deep learning and time series analysis for heritage data
  • Heritage modeling, visualization, and virtualization
  • Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data
  • Open heritage data and bench-marking

The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes:

  • Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts
  • Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation
  • Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage
  • Education
  • Smart and sustainable tourism
  • Urban planning
  • Digital Twins


Important dates (tentative)

  • Paper submission: June 13 July 11, 2025 UTC-0
  • Author acceptance notification: July 24 August 1, 2025
  • Camera-Ready: August 3 August 11, 2025
  • Workshop date: Oct. 27, 2025


Submission guidelines

Submission format All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work (full paper) as well as work in progress (short paper). Two submission formats are accepted:

  • 4 pages plus 1-page reference (short paper);
  • 8 pages plus up to 2-page reference (full paper).
They must be encoded as PDF using the ACM Article Template of the main conference ACM Multimedia 2025 (https://acmmm2025.org/information-for-authors/).

Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. The workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Profile Registration A registered profile at OpenReview (submissions' portal) is required to submit a paper.

IMP NOTES:

  • New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
  • New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically.

Submissions' Site https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/SUMAC


Special Highlights

Best Paper Award - We will present a best paper award, accompanied with a certificate and a trophy, similar to previous editions.


Keynote Speakers

Johan Oomen
Dr.
Johan Oomen
Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, The Netherlands
Website

Johan Oomen works at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision as manager of the department Research and Heritage. He is also a researcher at the “User Centric Data Science” research group at VU University. Besides that, he is secretary of the PublicSpaces foundation, co-initiator of the Culture and Media workgroup within the National AI Coalition and chairman of the EUscreen Foundation. Johan Oomen is a member of the National Heritage Research Council, the NDE domain group 'Usable' and the advisory board of the Europeana Foundation.

Diego Jiménez Badillo
Dr.
Diego Jiménez Badillo
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
Website

One of the pioneers in the field of Computational Humanities in Mexico who combines his expertise in Mexican Colonial History, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Computer Science and Geographical Information Systems to develop methodologies for the analysis and dissemination of cultural heritage. One of his main research areas is the application of 3D computer vision and machine learning techniques to automate the recognition, retrieval and classification of archaeological objects, particularly from Aztec repositories. Currently collaborates in a Digital Humanities project focused on data mining of texts and pictorial documents from sixteenth century New Spain.


Accepted Papers


Program Committee

  • Jenny Benois-Pineau (Université de Bordeaux/LABRI, France)
  • Marin Ferecatu (Cnam, France)
  • Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap/EPFL, Switzerland)
  • Andres Gomez (ITAM, Mexico)
  • Octavio Gutierrez-Garcia (ITAM, Mexico)
  • Haibin He (Wuhan University, China)
  • Rui Hu (Utopia Music, Switzerland)
  • Diego Jimenez-Badillo (INAH, Mexico)
  • Ronak Kosti (404-GEN, Germany)
  • Theodoros Kostoulas (University of the Aegean, Greece)
  • Rocio Lizarraga (DICIS, Mexico)
  • Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Marco Morales (ITAM, Mexico)
  • Michal Muszynski (IBM, Ireland)
  • Armanda Rodrigues (NOVA LINCS, NOVA Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Margarita Roos (Fujitsu, France)
  • John Samuel (CPE Lyon, France)
  • Sylvie Treuillet (Univ. Orléans/PRISME, France)
  • Jing Zhang (Wuhan University, China)


Organizers

Valerie Gouet-Brunet
Valerie Gouet-Brunet
IGN, Gustave Eiffel University, France
Website
Edgar Roman-Rangel
Edgar Roman-Rangel
ITAM, Mexico
Website
Li Weng
Li Weng
Zhejiang Financial College, China
Website


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