Publications by Paul Robert Guhennec

The Skin of Venice: A Computational Approach to the City's Urban Structure

This thesis explores the how computational methods can be used to enrich the history of architecture. Using Venice as a case study, it establishes a rich and multifaceted information system, made up of temporal, stylistic, photographic, architectural, and ...

EPFL2025

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

From Automated Bootstrapping to Collaborative Editing: A Framework for 4D City Reconstruction

Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Paul Robert Guhennec, Beatrice Vaienti, Didier Louis Dupertuis

We propose a framework for the construction of 4D scientific models for cities of the past. It leverages both the use of computational methods for bootstrapping, and a collaborative interface for visualisation and edition. This permits to continuously enri ...

Zenodo2023

Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap

Paul Robert Guhennec, Valentine Bernasconi, Ludovica Schaerf

This article explores the conception, design, and implementation of a hypertextual map that we call hypermap. Using Giovanni Nolli's 1748 map of the city of Rome as a backbone, we conducted an experiment based on one of the routes defined by Giuseppe Vasi' ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Effective annotation for the automatic vectorization of cadastral maps

Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Paul Robert Guhennec

The great potential brought by large-scale data in the humanities is still hindered by the time and technicality required for making documents digitally intelligible. Within urban studies, historical cadasters have been hitherto largely under-explored desp ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

The Skin of Venice: Automatic Facade Extraction from Point Clouds

Isabella Di Lenardo, Paul Robert Guhennec

We propose a method to extract orthogonal views of facades from photogrammetric models of cities. This method was applied to extract all facades of the city of Venice. The result images open up new areas of research in architectural history. ...

Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz2023

A data structure for scientific models of historical cities: extending the CityJSON format

Isabella Di Lenardo, Paul Robert Guhennec, Beatrice Vaienti

In the field of the 3D reconstruction of cities in the past there is a raising interest in the creation of models that are not just geometrical, but also informative, semantic and georeferenced. Despite the advancements that were done in the historical rec ...

Association for Computing Machinery2022