InfoScope: Link from real world to digital information space
Ismail Haritaoğlu · 2001
Abstract. We describe an information augmentation system (infoS-cope) and applications which integrates handheld devices, such as per-sonal digital assistants, with color camera to provide enhance information perception services to users. InfoScope uses a color camera as an input device by capturing scene images from the real world and using computer vision techniques to extract information from real world, convert them into digital world as text information and augment them back to original location so that user can see both the real world and information together in display of their handheld devices. We implemented two applications: First one is an automatic sign/text translation for foreign travelers where user can use infoScope whenever they want to see texts or signs in their own language where they are originally written in foreign language in the scene and extracted from scene images automatically by using computer vision techniques, second one is Information Augmentation in the City where user can see information, which is associated with building, places or attraction, overlaid onto real scene images on their PDA's display. We would like to presents our system with 5-minutes presentation with a possible demonstration. 1