A mobile image search for tourist information system
Wichian Premchaiswadi · International Conference on Signal Processing · 2009
Currently, the functions of capturing pictures and VDO, sending and receiving data through wireless network are simple for a mobile phone. Mobile phones nowadays act like a personal computer. However, people generally use the keywords or character set to search for information through the computer or mobile phone. In using keywords search, users have to define the appropriate keywords for things that they wanted to search for. Otherwise, the needed information may not be retrieved. In some cases, multiple keywords must be given in order to obtain the satisfied results. However, defining the appropriate keyword is sometimes difficult. This paper proposed a mobile application for searching traveling information by using images taken from a mobile phone camera. The images and traveling information are sent back and forth through the Internet by using Web-services. This proposed system could provide more convenient to users and/or tourists and decreases the restriction of searching information from a mobile phone through GPRS.