Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre

EPFL CDH DHI-GE
CM 1 468 (Centre Midi)
Station 10
1015 Lausanne

2026

Conference Papers

[1] ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking

Y. LinS. TualZ. LiL. JangY. Y. Chiang  et al.

2026. 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2025), Wuhan, China, 2025-09-16 - 2025-09-21. p. 568 - 585. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-04630-7_33.

2025

Books

[2] Lausanne 1831

I. Di LenardoR. G. Petitpierre

Cinisello Balsamo Milano : Silvana Editoriale Spa, 2025.

Theses

[3] Studying Maps at Scale: A Digital Investigation of Cartography and the Evolution of Figuration

R. G. Petitpierre

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11559.

Datasets

[4] Paris and Jerusalem Maps Text Dataset

T. DaiK. T. JohnsonR. G. PetitpierreB. VaientiI. di Lenardo

2025.

[5] London 1890s Ordnance Survey Text Layer

M. ZouR. G. PetitpierreI. Di Lenardo

2025.

2024

Conference Papers

[6] Revealing the Structure of Land Ownership through the Automatic Vectorisation of Swiss Cadastral Plans

R. G. PetitpierreI. Di LenardoL. A. A. Rappo

2024. Digital History Switzerland 2024, Basel, Switzerland, 2024-09-12 - 2024-09-13. DOI : 10.13140/RG.2.2.26632.33281.

2023

Journal Articles

[7] An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing

R. G. PetitpierreM. KramerL. A. A. Rappo

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). 2023. DOI : 10.1007/s10032-023-00428-9.

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

B. VaientiR. G. PetitpierreI. Di LenardoF. Kaplan

Remote Sensing. 2023. DOI : 10.3390/rs15133352.

2021

Conference Papers

[9] Generic Semantic Segmentation of Historical Maps

R. G. PetitpierreF. KaplanI. Di Lenardo

2021. CHR 2021: Computational Humanities Research Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 17-19, 2021. p. 228 - 248.

2020

Student Projects

[10] Neural networks for semantic segmentation of historical city maps: Cross-cultural performance and the impact of figurative diversity

R. G. Petitpierre

2020

Teaching & PhD

Digital urban history: Lausanne Time Machine

HUM-450, HUM-454 - Teaching assistant. Website