Publications de Frédéric Kaplan

Segmentation and Clustering of Local Planimetric Distortion Patterns in Historical Maps of Jerusalem

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Beatrice Vaienti

The advancement of computational tools for cartometric analysis has opened new avenues for the identification and understanding of stemmatic relationships between historical maps through the analysis of their planimetric distortions. The 19th-century Weste ...

MDPI AG2025

Reconstructing Saint Mark’s Square in Venice: A 4D Model with Point Cloud Integration for Analyzing Historiographical Hypotheses

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Paul Robert Guhennec, Beatrice Vaienti

This study explores the 4D reconstruction of part of the monumental heritage of St. Mark’s Square in Venice, contextualizing the modeling of its evolution in the broader field of digital historiography. The presented methodology is based on comparing the p ...

MDPI AG2025

Exploring cartographic genealogies through deformation analysis: case studies on ancient maps and synthetic data

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Beatrice Vaienti

This paper presents a new methodology for identifying copying relationships in maps through cartographic deformation analysis, and introduces a novel approach for the creation of synthetic datasets for evaluation. Challenging traditional approaches that co ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Automatic Removal of Non-Architectural Elements in 3D Models of Historic Buildings with Language Embedded Radiance Fields

Frédéric Kaplan, Katrin Beyer, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero

Neural radiance fields have emerged as a dominant paradigm for creating complex 3D environments incorporating synthetic novel views. However, 3D object removal applications utilizing neural radiance fields have lagged behind in effectiveness, particularly ...

MDPI AG2024

Generation of LOD4 models for buildings towards the automated 3D modeling of BIMs and digital twins

Frédéric Kaplan, Katrin Beyer, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero

An image-based methodology is presented for the automatic generation of geometric building models at LOD4, incorporating both interior and exterior geometrical information. Existing approaches often focus on simplified geometries for either exteriors or in ...

Elsevier BV2024

Tracing Cartographic Errors in the Western Representation of 19th Century Jerusalem

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Beatrice Vaienti

DH2024 Program Committee Chairs and Local Organizer Committee2024

Prothèses linguistiques : typologie, auctorialité et prolétarisation

Frédéric Kaplan

Cet article propose une classification des prothèses linguistiques, outils, dispositifs ou technologies qui transforment le processus d’écriture. Les neuf familles de prothèses identifiées s’organisent autour des concepts d’autocomplétion, de correction, d ...

2024

Rhythmanalysis of Switzerland, Rethinking territorial typologies

Vincent Kaufmann, Frédéric Kaplan, Yann Francis Eric Dubois, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Patrick Rerat

Rhythmanalysis is a valuable analytical approach for charting daily rhythms, both for individuals and at the collective level, in order to feel the pulse of a territory and understand the way in which it is inhabited in terms of both space and time. Concep ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem, Emanuela Boros

The quality of automatic transcription of heritage documents, whether from printed, manuscripts or audio sources, has a decisive impact on the ability to search and process historical texts. Although significant progress has been made in text recognition ( ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2024

A fragment-based approach for computing the long-term visual evolution of historical maps

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre

Cartography, as a strategic technology, is a historical marker. Maps are tightly connected to the cultural construction of the environment. The increasing availability of digital collections of historical map images provides an unprecedented opportunity to ...

Springernature2024

Machine-Learning-Enhanced Procedural Modeling for 4D Historical Cities Reconstruction

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Beatrice Vaienti

The generation of 3D models depicting cities in the past holds great potential for documentation and educational purposes. However, it is often hindered by incomplete historical data and the specialized expertise required. To address these challenges, we p ...

2023

From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the "Accordi dei Garzoni"

Frédéric Kaplan, Orlin Biserov Topalov, Maud Ehrmann

If automatic document processing techniques have achieved a certain maturity for present time documents, the transformation of hand-written documents into well-represented, structured and connected data which can satisfactorily be used for historical study ...

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group2023

Ce que les machines ont vu et que nous ne savons pas encore

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

Cet article conceptualise l’idée qu’il existe une « matière noire » composée des structurations latentes identifiées par le regard machinique sur de grandes collections photographiques patrimoniales. Les campagnes photographiques de l’histoire de l’art, au ...

2023

Aux portes du monde miroir

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

The Mirror World is no longer an imaginary device, a mirage in a distant future, it is a reality under construction. In Europe, Asia and on the American continent, large companies and the best universities are working to build the infrastructures, to defin ...

2021

Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Sofia Ares Oliveira, Raphaël Barman, Maud Ehrmann

The massive amounts of digitized historical documents acquired over the last decades naturally lend themselves to automatic processing and exploration. Research work seeking to automatically process facsimiles and extract information thereby are multiplyin ...

2021

Une approche computationnelle du cadastre napoléonien de Venise

Frédéric Kaplan, Raphaël Barman, Isabella Di Lenardo, Federica Pardini

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Napoleonic administration introduced a new standardised description system to give an objective account of the form and functions of the city of Venice. The cadastre, deployed on a European scale, was offering for ...

2021

Method and system for generating a three-dimensional model based on spherical photogrammetry

Pierre-André Mudry, Frédéric Kaplan, Nils Hamel, Albane Bénédicte Descombes

A computer-implemented method is proposed for creating a three-dimensional model of the environment. The method comprises the steps of planning (105) a trajectory for a moving system carrying an omnidirectional camera comprising a first image sensor facing ...

2021

Automatic Content Curation of Visual Heritage

Mathieu Salzmann, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Frédéric Kaplan, Valentine Bernasconi

Digitization and preservation of large heritage induce high maintenance costs to keep up with the technical standards and ensure sustainable access. Creating impactful usage is instrumental to justify the resources for long-term preservation. The Museum fü ...

2021

Generic Semantic Segmentation of Historical Maps

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre

Research in automatic map processing is largely focused on homogeneous corpora or even individual maps, leading to inflexible models. Based on two new corpora, the first one centered on maps of Paris and the second one gathering maps of cities from all ove ...

2021

The Advent of the 4D Mirror World

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

The 4D Mirror World is considered to be the next planetary-scale information platform. This commentary gives an overview of the history of the converging trends that have progressively shaped this concept. It retraces how large-scale photographic surveys s ...

2020