The activities performed and main achievements obtained between M1 and M15 include: the submission of 12 deliverables; definition of a scientific and theoretical base for the entire project; Development of the Concept for the Open Space Museum; set-up of five Working Groups; Set-up the common SharePoint; Development of a NextCloud Federated Cloud; Started an extensive Data acquisition campaign; Designed the PERCEIVE colour knowledge repository; Defined the Requirements for WP4 and WP5; Started to develop AI and IBR core, platform, tools and services; Carried out Co-Design activities focused on the development of the prototypes; Created a visual identity and logo; Developed the PERCEIVE website and Newslettet (www.perceive-horizon.eu); Co-organised a scientific conference (
https://www.gch2023.eu/)(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie); Prepared an open access book on the PERCEIVE theory and technologies (‘Chromatic Visions’); Initiated networking activities with the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster network.
This final reporting period (M15–M36, May 2024–January 2026) marks PERCEIVE’s transition from foundational setup and early prototyping to the delivery, validation, and public deployment of its main results:
(i) consolidated scientific protocols and datasets for coloured heritage scenarios;
(ii) AI/IBR methods and training pipelines.
(iii) an operational platform with reusable tools and services; and
(iv) experience prototypes and evaluation frameworks that translate research outputs into visitor-facing and professional applications.
Across M15–M36 the consortium consolidated an end-to-end workflow for “coloured collections” that goes from acquisition and knowledge structuring to material/appearance modelling and AI-IBR-enabled processing, to access through platform services, and finally to interpretation, mediation, and assessment through prototypes and user studies.
Key advancements include:
- Data governance, quality and compliance were finalised and integrated into consortium practice (final DMP; final quality/risk framework; policy recommendations) [D1.2 D1.4]
- Scientific workflows and repository infrastructure were completed: protocols and datasets were formalised and the Colour Knowledge Repository extended with interoperability mechanisms and API; the “dynamic data workflow” approach was consolidated to manage heterogeneous scenario data end-to-end [D3.3].
- Material appearance and colour-change modelling matured into documented methods covering physically based, data-driven, and hybrid approaches across the PERCEIVE scenarios [D3.2].
- AI/IBR core and training / inference framework were delivered as reusable architectures, including training data strategies and consumption patterns compatible with platform services [D4.2].
- The PERCEIVE Platform (final) was documented and validated, providing a production-oriented service ecosystem and an integrated toolset (e.g. analysis, reconstruction, stylisation, light-damage estimation, visualisation) [D5.2].
- Experience prototypes reached deployment-ready maturity (Caring, Authenticity, Participation/Open Space Museum), supported by implementation templates and replication-oriented documentation; the Design Toolbox was finalised as a practitioner resource [D6.1 D6.2]
- Main exhibitions have been designed and set-up in public events and museums as a bridge with the scientific and citizens community and a place for evaluation activities (DigitalHeritage 2025 “Perceive Isis’ Colours” and Perceive tools & services, Munch “Tiny Conservator” exhibition, Trondheim Museum “Fragile Colours” exhibition [D8.3];
- A structured evaluation strategy and assessment campaigns were completed, providing both methodological framing and field-based results for tools and prototypes [D7.2].
- Dissemination, exploitation and clustering activities culminated in major public/scientific moments (mainly the world congress Digital Heritage 2025), publications (as the two volumes Chromatic Visions published with Springer in open access), and demonstrator showcases [D8.3 Chromatic Visions, Annex 1]
- Training activities in the form of 13 online webinars, “PERCEIVE talks”, published in the YouTube channels [D2.3]
