2025 IEEE CH Workshop on Protecting the future of cultural heritage: Secure Digital Twins for sustainable preservation (ARGUS)

Download ARGUS workshop Call For Papers

We invite contributions for the IEEE CH workshop: ‘Protecting the Future of Cultural Heritage: Digital Twins for Sustainable Preservation’. Cultural heritage faces significant challenges due to environmental, climatic, anthropogenic and digital threats. Innovative digital solutions such as digital twins, AI and multimodal data fusion for monitoring and analysis are essential to address them, which are necessary steps for heritage protection. This workshop is organised in the framework of the ARGUS
Horizon Europe project.
The ARGUS project focuses on building a sustainable and dynamic decision support system (DSS) that integrates multi-scale datasets, including GIS, remote sensing and in situ sensor data, to support adaptive heritage management. These digital twins serve as tools for real-time monitoring and risk assessment, but also as critical digital archives, ensuring the preservation of cultural heritage even in adverse circumstances. In scenarios where physical heritage is at risk of severe damage, digital twins can also provide accurate reference models for restoration or reconstruction. This example highlights the role of cybersecurity in protecting digital repositories used in heritage protection from potential threats. The workshop will be held in unction with the IEEE CH 2025 conference as a hybrid event, during September 8–10, 2025.

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

Topic of Interest

› Digital twins and data integration for heritage preservation
› Cybersecurity and infrastructure for digital heritage

› AI and risk management
› Conservation strategies and case studies

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: May 5, 2025
Authors’ notification: May 20, 2025
Camera-ready submission: May 28, 2025
Registration deadline (authors): May 30, 2025
Workshop dates: September 8–10, 2025

Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CH conference are applicable to ARGUS workshop. Please visit the instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via Easychair, please make sure that the workshop’s track WS-ARGUS is selected.

Workshop Committees

Program Chiars

George Pavlidis, (Greece)
Emeri Farinetti, University of Roma Tre (Italy)
Fernando Moreno-Navarro (Italy)

Technical Program Committee

Emanuele Bellini, University of Roma Tre (Italy)
Apostolos Sarris (Cyprus)
Athos Agapiou (Cyprus)
Marcel Janer (Spain)

Publicity Chairs

Emeri Farinetti, University of Roma Tre (Italy)

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