The days of lugging around and pulling out hefty guide books could be nearing an end: The eyePhone, a program currently being developed in Europe, uses a combination of satellite information, object-recognition software and Internet data to provide information on landmarks in a scene captured through a mobile phone’s lens.
The user snaps a photo, highlights a building or mountain or some other major site, then waits as the object-recognition program, developed by SuperWise Technologies AG, identifies this image and links it to the relevant facts. Initially, the search draws on pre-processed information, but by clicking on "more," you can gather additional details. The advantage of the Apollo object-recognition system, according to its developers, is that it can work in a variety of weather or lighting conditions, and effectively picks out objects regardless of the person’s position. In other words, you don’t need to be standing in a certain place for it to recognize a church or mountain peak.
Check out this promo video; but don’t get too anxious, since the technology probably won’t be available for consumers until 2009 or 2010.
-From Popular Science,USA
用移动电话作旅行向导
目前在欧洲,研究人员正在研究一个称之为Apollo的项目:使用卫星提供的信息、目标确认软件和因特网数据的组合,通过移动视频手机镜头捕获的图像来提供陆上标志的信息。
用户摄到一张照片后,着眼于某一座建筑物或某一座山脉或某个其它主要场所,再等待由高新技术公司(AG)研制的目标识别程序鉴定该图像且将它连接到相关数据.起初,该搜索利用预处理信息,但是点击更多操作后,你就能搜索到许多额外的信息.根据其研制者称,Apollo目标识别系统的优点是,它能在不同的天气或光照环境下工作,并且无论人的位置在哪里,都能有效地分辨出目标.换句话说,你不需要站在某个特定的位置来分辨一个教堂或山峰.这样你在旅途中能够避免许多毫无目的的晃荡及避免不时地掏出地理指南书查阅的沉重负担。
该项目的研究人员认为这种技术到2009年最迟到2010年就能够投入使用。
-编译自 Popular Science,美
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