Mobile Visual Search -- Linking the virtual and physical worlds (2011)
BibTeX
@MISC{Girod11mobilevisual,
author = {Bernd Girod and Vijay Chandrasekhar and David M. Chen and Ngai-man Cheung and Radek Grzeszczuk and Yuriy Reznik and Gabriel Takacs and Sam S. Tsai and Ramakrishna Vedantham},
title = {Mobile Visual Search -- Linking the virtual and physical worlds},
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
Mobile phones have evolved into powerful image and video processing devices equipped with high-resolution cameras, color displays, and hardware-accelerated graphics. They are also increasingly equipped with a global positioning system and connected to broadband wireless networks. All this enables a new class of applications that use the camera phone to initiate search queries about objects in visual proximity to the user (Figure 1). Such applications can be used, e.g., for identifying products, comparison shopping, finding information about movies, compact disks (CDs), real estate, print media, or







