Building facade classification by architectural styles allows categorization of large databases of building images into semantic categories belonging to certain historic periods, regions and cultural influences. Image databases sorted by architectural styles permit effective and fast image search for the purposes of content-based image retrieval, 3D reconstruction, 3D city-modeling, virtual tou...

Historic gardens are often seen in the context of botanical heritage, which emphasizes their aesthetic and value. Yet, architectural importance as an integral part heritage bastion castle ensemble is ignored. Finding relationship between garden presently complicated by considerable changes townscape since 17th century lack details on these gardens’ depictions maps. The paper demonstrates how hi...

Despite the widespread adoption of building information modelling (BIM) for the design and lifecycle management of new buildings, very little research has been undertaken to explore the value of BIM in the management of heritage buildings and cultural landscapes. To that end, we are investigating the construction of BIMs that incorporate both quantitative assets (intelligent objects, performanc...