Elisa Mariarosaria Farella

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2017: Research position at 3DOM research unit, FBK Trento, Italy.

• 2014-2017:  PhD in Architecture, University of Naples Federico II

• 2011-2017:  Master degree in Architecture, University of Naples Federico II

Research interest and areas

• Cultural Heritage 3D documentation and valorization

• Data and sensors fusion 

• Automated 3D modelling

• AR-VR in the Geomatic sector

• Geoprocessing of aerial and satellite imagery

• Point cloud filtering

• Application of AI methods to heritage and Geomatics topics

• Underground 3D mapping

PhD Thesis

Farella, E. M., 2017: “Lo spazio virtuale del passato. Documentazione, modellazione e fruizione virtuale del partrimonio archeologico. Il Parco Archeologico di Pausilypon”

Awards

SIFET Young Authors Awards 2016 for the article: “3D Mapping of underground environments with a hand-held laser scanner", 61th SIFET Congress, June 2016

Scientific and Organization Committee of International Events

• GeoAI workshop, Trento (Italy), 28-29 November 2024.

• 10th International ISPRS/CIPA Workshop 3D-ARCH, Siena (Italy), 21-23 February 2024.

• 9th International Workshop 3D-ARCH "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures", Mantua (Italy), 2-4 March 2022. 

• 8th International Workshop 3D-ARCH "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures", Bergamo (Italy), 6-8 February 2019. 

• CIPA 27th International Symposium “Documenting the Past for a Better Future”, Avila (Spain), 1-5 September 2019.

• ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium, “Towards Photogrammetry 2020”, Riva del Garda (Italy), 3-7 June 2018.

Editorial activities

o   Editor for the journal – Heritage: Special issue “Advanced 2D and 3D Modeling Techniques and AI Applications for Archaeological Site Documentation and Preservation”.

o   Guest editor for the journal – Geomatics: Special Issue "The Role of Remote Sensing and GIS in Mapping the Earth’s 2D and 3D Geometry".

o   Guest editor for the journal – APPLIED SCIENCES: Special Issue “Geo-Processing of Historical Aerial Images”.

o   Guest editor for the journal – SUSTAINABILITY: Special Issue “Remote Sensing and GIS  for Cultural Heritage Monitoring and Preservation”.

o   Editorial board member of the journal AGATHON.

Reviewing activities

• Journals: Remote Sensing (MDPI), Sensors (MDPI), ISPRS International Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Elsevier), Applied Science (MDPI), Heritage (MDPI), The Visual Computer, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage.

Involvement in International Projects 

• Revitaliser (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02)

• XRCulture (DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-DATA-AI-05, 2025-2026)

• 3DBigDataSpace (DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-DATA-AI-05, 2025-2026)

• 3D-4CH (DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-AI-06, 2025-2028)

• CICATRICI (CARITRO, 2024-2025)

• TRACENET (EU Programme Union Civil Protection Mechanism [UCPM], 2023-2025)

• 5DCulture (DIGITAL-2022-CULTURAL-02-HERITAGE, 2023-2025)

• InCUBE (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01-02, 2022-2025)

• TOTEM (CARITRO, 2019-2021)

• JUDIT  (CARITRO, 2021)

• TIME (EuroSDR, 2020-2021)

• PhotoMatch (ISPRS, 2020)

• VOLTA (EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE, 2017-2022)

• BOOSTEE-CE (Interreg-CE, 2017-2020)

• SLICE3D (H2020 - Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation, 2017-2018)

• VIRTUAL-ARCH (Interreg-CE, 2017-2020)

• VAST (CARITRO, 2014-2017)

Publications

• Geospatial

o   Farella, E.M., Morelli, L., Remondino, F., Qin, R., Schachinger, B. and Legat, K., 2025. Investigating the New Ultracam Dragon Hybrid Aerial Mapping System. International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, 48, pp.117-125.

o  Kostrzewa A., Farella E.M., Ostrowski W., Morelli L., Krzysztof B., Remondino F., 2024. Digitizing historical aerial images: evaluation of scanning quality on aerial triangulation and dense image matching. Applied Science, 14(9), p.3635.

o   Marelli, D., Morelli, L., Farella, E.M., Bianco, S., Ciocca, G., Remondino, F., 2023. ENRICH: Multi-purposE dataset for beNchmaRking In Computer vision and pHotogrammetry. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 198, pp.84-98.

o   Farella E.M., Remondino F., Cahalane C., Qin R., Loghin A.M. , Di Tullio M., Haala N., Mills J., Geometric processing of very high-resolution satellite imagery: quality assessment for 3D mapping needs. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.47-54.

o   Farella E.M., Morelli L., Remondino F., Mills J.P., Haala N., Crompvoets J., 2022. The EuroSDR TIME benchmark for historical aerial images. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B2-2022, pp.1175–1182.

o   Qin, R., Ling, X., Farella, E.M., Remondino, F., 2022. Uncertainty-guided depth fusion from multi-view satellite images to improve the accuracy in large-scale DSM generation. Remote Sensing, 14(6), p.1309.

o   Toschi, I., Farella, E.M., Welponer, M., Remondino, F., 2021. Quality-based registration refinement of airborne LiDAR and photogrammetric point clouds. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 172, pp.160-170.

o   González-Aguilera, D., Ruiz de Oña, E., López-Fernandez, L., Farella, E.M., Stathopoulou, E.K., Toschi, I., Remondino, F., Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, P., Hernández-López, D., Fusiello, A. and Nex, F., 2020. Photomatch: An open-source multi-view and multi-modal feature matching tool for photogrammetric applications. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 43, pp.213-219.

• Machine Learning applied to geospatial data

o   Bayrak O.C., Ma Z., Farella E.M., Remondino F., Uzar M., 2024. ESTATE. A large dataset of under-represented urban objects for 3D point cloud classification. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.25-32.

o   Yan, Z., Mazzacca, G., Rigon, S., Farella, E.M., Trybala, P. and Remondino, F., 2023. NeRFBK: a holistic dataset for benchmarking NeRF-based 3D reconstruction. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48(1), pp.219-226.

o   Nex, F., Zhang, N., Remondino, F., Farella, E.M., Qin, R. and Zhang, C., 2023. Benchmarking the extraction of 3D geometry from UAV images with deep learning methods. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.123-130.

o   Mazzacca, G., Karami, A., Rigon, S., Farella, E.M., Trybala, P. and Remondino, F., 2023. NERF for heritage 3d reconstruction. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.1051-1058.

o   Garofalo, P.S., Capitanio, L., Remondino, F., Farella, E.M., Rigon, S., Callegari, I. and Rappuoli, D., 2023. Large-scale structural controls on hot spring mineral deposits of geothermal systems (Mt. Amiata, Italy) highlighted by machine learning algorithms?. In Mineral Resources in a Changing World, pp. 1-4. CHE.

o   Farella, E.M., Malek, S. and Remondino, F., 2022. Colorizing the Past: Deep Learning for the Automatic Colorization of Historical Aerial Images. Journal of Imaging, 8(10), p.269.

o   Farella, E.M., Özdemir, E. and Remondino, F., 2021. 4D Building Reconstruction with Machine Learning and Historical Maps. Applied Sciences, 11(4), p.1445.

o  Grilli, E., Farella, E.M., Torresani, A. and Remondino, F., 2019. Geometric feature analysis for the classification of cultural heritage point clouds. ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Vol.  XLII-2/W15, pp. 541–548.

• Heritage

o   Farella, E.M., Rigon, S., Remondino, F., Stan, A., Ioannidis, G., Münster, S., Medici, M., Maietti, F., Sánchez, A., 2024. Methods, data and tools for facilitating a 3D cultural heritage space. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.197-204.

o   Medici M., Sterpin A., Settimo S., Perda G., Farella E.M., Remondino F., 2024. Separate and integrated data processing for the 3D reconstruction of a complex architecture. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-2-2024, pp.249–256.

o  Farella, E.M., Morelli, L., Rigon, S., Grilli, E. and Remondino, F., 2022. Analysing key steps of the photogrammetric pipeline for Museum artefacts 3D digitisation. Sustainability, 14(9), p.5740.

o   Farella, E.M., Morelli, L., Grilli, E., Rigon, S. and Remondino, F., 2022. Handling critical aspects in massive photogrammetric digitization of museum assets. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 46, pp.215-222.

o   Farella, E.M., Torresani, A. and Remondino, F., 2020. Refining the joint 3D processing of terrestrial and UAV images using quality measures. Remote Sensing, 12(18), p.2873.

o   Farella, E.M., Torresani, A. and Remondino, F., 2019. Sparse point cloud filtering based on covariance features. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 42, pp.465-472.

o   Farella, E.M., Torresani, A. and Remondino, F., 2019. Quality features for the integration of terrestrial and UAV images. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 42, pp.339-346.

o   Nocerino, E., Rieke-Zapp, D.H., Trinkl, E., Rosenbauer, R., Farella, E.M., Morabito, D., Remondino, F., 2018. Mapping VIS and UVL imagery on 3D geometry for non-invasive, non-contact analysis of a vase. ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Vol. XLII-2, pp. 773-780.

o   Nocerino, E., Menna, F., Morabito, D., Remondino, F., Toschi, I., Abate, D., Ebolese, D., Farella, E.M., Fiorillo, F., Minto, S., Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, P., 2017. The Vast Project: Valorisation of History and Landscape for Promoting the Memory of WWI. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., IV-2/W2, pp. 179–186.

o   Farella, E.M., Lopez, G., Fontana, A., Bernardi, M., Barbieri, N., Rodriguez-Prieto, A., Deflorian, M.C. and Tombolato, D., 2017. Fabbricazione digitale per la valorizzazione del patrimonio museale: tre casi studio al MUSE-Museo delle Scienze di Trento. Museologia Scientifica Vol.11, pp. 108-113.

o   Farella, E.M, Menna, F., Nocerino, E., Morabito, D., Remondino, F. and Campi, M., 2016. Knowledge and valorization of historical sites through 3d documentation and modeling. ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Vol. XLI-B5, pp. 255-262.

o   Farella, E.M., Menna, F., Remondino, F., Campi, M., 2016. 3D modeling and virtual applications for the valorization of historical heritage. Proc. 8th Arqueologica 2.0, pp. 456-459.

o  Campi, M., Cera, V., Farella, E.M., Iovane, D., 2016. Un catalogo semantico per la conoscenza e la ricostruzione del paesaggio incompiuto. Il caso di San Leucio. Delli Aspetti de Paesi. Vecchi e nuovi Media per l'immagine del Paesaggio. Vol. II, Rappresentazione, Memoria, Conservazione. CIRICE. ISBN: 9788899930011.

o  Cera V., Farella E.M., Iovane D., 2016. Di-Segno, ricostruzione 3D e navigazione virtuale. Il racconto dell'utopia interrotta di Ferdinandopoli. Le Ragioni del Disegno/Pensiero, Forma e Modello nella Gestione della Complessità. XIII UID Congress. ISBN: 9788849232950.

o   Farella, E.M., Campi M., Remondino F., 2015. "I teatri del Pausilypon. Documentazione, o modellazione e fruizione virtuale del patrimonio archeologico". Sistemi di conoscenza per l'archeologia. I luoghi dei teatri e degli anfiteatri romani in Campania. ISBN:9788899130374.

o  Caputo, P., Farella, E.M., Mauriello, F., 2015. "La Crypta Romana di Cuma". Spazi e culture del Mediterraneo 4 : Costruzione di un atlante del patrimonio culturale mediterraneo : conoscenza, comunicazione, governance : progetto di un sistema interattivo. Esiti della ricerca PRIN 2009-2011. ISBN 9788865424087.

• Underwater / Underground

o  Di Stefano, F., Torresani, A., Farella, E.M., Pierdicca, R., Menna, F., Remondino, F., 2021. 3D Surveying of Underground Built Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges of Mobile Technologies. Sustainability, 13, 13289.

o  Nocerino, E., Menna, F., Farella, E.M. and Remondino, F., 2020. A Cost-effective 3D Photogrammetric Approach for Semi-submerged Caves. British Cave Research Association. Cave Radio & Electronics Group. ISSN: 1361-4800 Vol.112.

o  Nocerino, E., Menna, F., Farella, E.M., Remondino, F., 2019. 3D virtualization of an underground semi-submerged cave system. ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Vol. XLII-2/W15, pp. 857-864.

o  Farella, E.M., 2016. 3D mapping of underground environments with a hand-held laser scanner. In Proceedings of the SIFET Annual Conference, 2016.

• Industry

o  Yan, Z., Padkan, N., Trybała, P., Farella, E.M. and Remondino, F., 2025. Learning-Based 3D Reconstruction Methods for Non-Collaborative Surfaces—A Metrological Evaluation. Metrology, 5(2), p.20.

o  Menna, F., Nocerino, E., Morabito, D., Farella, E.M., Perini, M. and Remondino, F., 2017. An open source low-cost automatic system for image-based 3D digitization. ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Vol. XLII-2/W8, pp. 155-162.

• VR/AR

o  Rigon S., Perda G., Farella E.M., Battisti R., Remondino F., Reis V., Marchesi S., Vaccari P., Wran-Schumer D., 2024. TRACENET- A VR framework to support online collaborative training activities. In: De Paolis, L.T., Arpaia, P., Sacco, M. (eds) Extended Reality. XR Salento 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15027. Springer, Cham.

o  Torresani, A., Rigon, S., Farella, E.M., Menna, F., Remondino, F., 2021. Unveiling Large-Scale Historical Contents with V-Slam and Markerless Mobile AR Solutions. ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-M-1-2021, pp. 61–768.

• BIM / Energy

o  Roman, O., Bassier, M., Ricciuti, S., Farella, E.M., Remondino, F. and Viesi, D., 2025. Digital Twins and CFD simulations for accurate sensor positioning. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.1291-1298.

o  Rocca Vera A.P., Zanni T., Roman O., D’Agaro P., Valluzzi M.R., Farella E.M., Remondino F. Integrated HBIM and IFC protocols for sustainable conservation and energy efficiency of historic buildings. SAHC 2025 Conference, International Journal of Architectural Heritage. Under publication.

o  Roman O., Bassier M., De Geyter S., De Winter H., Farella E.M., Remondino F., 2024. BIM Module for Deep learning-driven parametric IFC reconstruction. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.403-410.

o  Roman O., Mazzacca G., Farella E.M. , Remondino F., Bassier M., Agugiaro G., 2024. Towards automated BIM and BEM generation with a B-REP based method. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., X-4-2024, pp. 287–294.

o  Roman, O., Avena, M., Farella, E.M., Remondino, F., Spanò, A., 2023. A semi-automated approach to model architectural elements in SCAN-to-BIM processes. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.1345-1352.

o  Roman, O., Farella, E.M., Rigon, S., Remondino, F., Ricciuti, S., Viesi, D., 2023. From 3D surveying data to BIM to BEM: the InCUBE dataset. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48, pp.175-182.