This paper is the editorial of the virtual special issue (VSI) “Pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques for cultural heritage”, of which the authors of this paper have been the guest editors. It aims to bring together the work of experts from the fields of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence and that of cultural heritage. This multidisciplinary subject covers a wide spectrum spanning from the study of the cultural heritage to the development of tools based on PR/AI techniques for cultural heritage analysis, reconstruction and understanding. The papers included in this special issue allowed us to highlight the advances on this subject from a wide-angle perspective, as well as to stimulate new theoretical and applied researches for better characterizing the state of the art in this domain.

本文是虚拟特刊（VSI）“文化遗产的模式识别和人工智能技术”的社论，该论文的作者一直是特邀编辑。它旨在汇集来自模式识别和人工智能领域以及文化遗产领域的专家的工作。这个多学科的学科涵盖了从文化遗产的研究到基于PR / AI技术的工具的广泛发展，这些工具用于文化遗产的分析，重建和理解。本期特刊中包含的论文使我们能够从广角角度突出该主题的进展，并激发新的理论和应用研究，以更好地表征该领域的技术水平。