I am a mobile, I am your tourist guide

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Written by team josh
Monday, 14 April 2008
Hi, please tell me how may I assist you. I am your tourist guide and trust me I am a mobile! It may become a reality. Future cellphones may act as a tourist guide. Pechtl and Geiger who are co-owners of the Germany-based SuperWise Technologies AG, has developed the Apollo image-recognition system that lies behind what they call the “eye-Phone.”. This novel use of satellite technology, combines three of today’s modern technologies: Satellite navigation localisation services, object recognition and relevant information retrieval from the Internet. “The key to the eye-Phone system is the object recognition done by our Apollo software,” said Pechtl. “The software can recognise objects from images; is self-learning, and after a short, simple training session can identify any object in the world.” To use the technology, all that a tourist needs to do is to take a photograph of a thing of interest with a phone, and select the item with the cursor. “It could be a building, a mountain, a tree, plant or a special event such as a local festival,” said Pechtl. The pre-processed information on the selected object will then be sent back to the mobile phone, via the Internet in real time. SuperWise Technologies now has its eyes set on collaboration with mobile phone operators to provide the eye-Phone functionality as an additional function for subscription. A prototype of this gadget should be ready by mid-2008. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 378 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Website Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage. Write the displayed characters
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