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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B2-2026-809-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>AI-Driven 3D reconstruction and quality assessment for Cultural Heritage: first results from the HERITALISE project</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chiabrando</surname>
<given-names>Filiberto</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4982-5236</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lingua</surname>
<given-names>Andrea Maria</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Martino</surname>
<given-names>Alessio</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Matrone</surname>
<given-names>Francesca</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Spadaro</surname>
<given-names>Alessandra</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Laboratory of Geomatics for Cultural Heritage (LabG4CH), Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), Politecnico di Torino, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli, 39, Torino (TO), Italy</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Geomatics Lab, Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, Torino (TO), Italy</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B2-2026</volume>
<fpage>809</fpage>
<lpage>817</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Filiberto Chiabrando et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>The accurate digital documentation of Cultural Heritage (CH) assets demands workflows capable of integrating heterogeneous, multiscale datasets while preserving both geometric fidelity and radiometric completeness. This paper presents the first results of the AI-based processing pipeline developed within the HERITALISE project (Horizon Europe, 2025&amp;ndash;2028), applied to three multiscale case studies at the &lt;em&gt;Reggia di Venaria Reale&lt;/em&gt; (Turin, Italy): an outdoor-indoor UAV photogrammetric survey, a kinematic SLAM acquisition of a contemporary sculpture garden, and a close-range dataset of an 18th-century decorative artefact. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is evaluated as a novel view synthesis method across all three scenarios, demonstrating strong photorealistic rendering capabilities, particularly for complex material properties and geometrically challenging interiors, whilst highlighting current limitations for metric surveying applications. A two-stage crack detection workflow, combining tile-based text-prompted segmentation with SAM3 and multiview ray-based reprojection onto the reconstructed mesh, is validated on UAV imagery, achieving an 84.9% ray&amp;ndash;mesh intersection rate. Finally, a standardised evaluation framework is proposed, encompassing adaptive, scale-dependent geometric and radiometric metrics organised into reference-based and no-reference assessment scenarios, aggregated into a transparent synthetic quality score with three adaptive quality classes. The proposed methodology contributes toward a reproducible, sensor-agnostic standard for the assessment of AI-generated CH documentation products.</p>
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