Visual object detection from mobile phone imagery for context awareness

Patrick Morris Luley, Lucas Paletta, Alexander Almer
2005 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services - MobileHCI '05  
We describe a system which proposes a solution for multisensor object awareness and positioning to enable stable location awareness for a mobile service in urban areas. The system offers technology of outdoors vision based object recognition that will extend state-of-the-art location and context aware services towards object based awareness in urban environments. In the proposed application scenario, tourist pedestrians are equipped with a GPRS or UMTS capable camera-phone. They are interested
more » ... hether their field of view contains tourist sights that would point to more detailed information. Multimedia type data about related history might be explored by a mobile user who is intending to learn within the urban environment. Ambient learning is in this way achieved by pointing the device towards an urban sight, capturing an image, and consequently getting information about the object on site and within the focus of attention, i.e., the user's current field of view. The described mobile system offers multiple opportunities for application in both mobile business and commerce, and is currently developed as an industrial prototype.
doi:10.1145/1085777.1085881 dblp:conf/mhci/LuleyPA05 fatcat:p5vkcxyuxvggxmt4hqb2ncyo2q