Now, if are traveling across unknown zones of the planet, don’t forget to keep your mobile phones with you. No, not just to keep in touch with your dear one, but to match images of maps on mobile phones! Yes, you can now do this by using an amazing algorithm – named ‘MapSnapper’. Thanks to the Southampton University researchers.
With the help of this algorithm, you can first take a photograph of a section of a map using your mobile phone cameras. It would come back to you with all your points of interest added in details – such things like events, facilities, opening times and even accommodation in the selected geographical area.
Returning a high quality photograph with details, the new amazing algorithm combines a number of computer vision techniques, which include interest point extraction and local description generator with multidimensional indexing. Thus, it allows mobile phone users to query a remote information system on paper map-based photos taken with a cellphone camera, using MapSnapper.
Via: theengineer
