Milan Cathedral Digitized: A Stone-by-Stone Segmentation Approach Using SAM2

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Beitragende

  • Kai Zhang - (Autor:in)
  • Chiara Mea - (Autor:in)
  • Ahmad El-Alailyi - , Polytechnic University of Milan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Autor:in)
  • Luca Perfetti - (Autor:in)
  • Fausta Fiorillo - (Autor:in)
  • Francesco Fassi - (Autor:in)

Abstract

High-resolution architectural documentation goes beyond geometry—it requires a deep understanding of the building’s structure, materials, and historical layers. This often means interpreting hidden construction logic and identifying even the smallest components, such as individual stones or bricks, to produce meaningful data for conservation, analysis, and interpretation. Identifying and describing all the individual components that constitute the building, such as the type, arrangement, and state of preservation of stones, bricks, mortars, or decorative materials embedded in the walls, is a real challenge due to the large quantity and the complex spatial distribution of each element. Recent advances in AI, particularly foundational models and zero-shot models, offer potential solutions to speed up the documentation process. Taking the gothic complex of Milan Cathedral as the monument object of study, the research hereby presented implements a SAM2 (Segment Anything Model) based stone-by-stone segmentation, leveraging object detector for semantic interpretation. The proposed framework integrates 2D stone block segmentation with photogrammetric 3D reconstruction, enabling accurate projection of semantic labels and geometric data from images to 3D point cloud, allowing a detailed 3D segmentation in all the components of the structure.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel30th CIPA Symposium “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data-driven Heritage Conservation”
Seiten1683–1690
Seitenumfang8
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Okt. 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
BandXLVIII-M-9-2025
ISSN1682-1750

Externe IDs

Scopus 105020061249

Schlagworte

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Schlagwörter

  • Cultural Heritage, Segmentation, SAM2, Artificial Intelligence, Maintenance, Stone Blocks