A team from the University of Southampton have developed a new technology that will allow users to take an image of a map on their mobile phone which can generate a high resolution, clickable image. Users can then use the image to find points of interest and more information.
Developed by Dr Jonathon Hare and Professor Paul Lewis from Southampton’s School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) the service, called MapSnapper, will be presented publicly for the first time at the Electronic Imaging conference in San Jose, California, from 27-31 January.
Quality remote information
“The vision was a product that would allow users to query a remote information system based on photos of a paper map taken with a camera phone. The information system could then return useful information to the user via the device. For example, the returned information could include such things as events, facilities, opening times and accommodation in the selected geographical area” commented Dr Hare.
The service is designed around computer vision techniques and multidimensional indexing and is operates via a fast, robust algorithm.
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Date Published: January 24, 2008
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