Wikireality: Augmenting reality with community driven websites

Author

Gray, Douglas ; Kozintsev, Igor ; Wu, Yi ; Haussecker, Horst

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 3 2009

Firstpage

1290

Lastpage

1293

Abstract

We present a system for making community driven websites easily accessible from the latest mobile devices. Many of these new devices contain an ensemble of sensors such as cameras, GPS and inertial sensors. We demonstrate how these new sensors can be used to bring the information contained in sites like Wikipedia to users in a much more immersive manner than text or maps. We have collected a large database of images and articles from Wikipedia and show how a user can query this database by simply snapping a photo. Our system uses the location sensors to assist with image matching and the inertial sensors to provide a unique and intuitive user interface for browsing results.

Keywords

Web sites; augmented reality; image matching; image retrieval; mobile computing; user interfaces; Wikipedia; augmenting reality; community driven Websites; image database; inertial sensors; intuitive user interface; mobile devices; Cameras; Global Positioning System; Image databases; Image matching; Image sensors; Internet; Sensor systems; User interfaces; Web server; Wikipedia; Image Indexing; Image Search; Mobile Augmented Reality; Multimedia Databases; Multimedia HCI;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2009. ICME 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1945-7871

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4290-4

Electronic_ISBN

1945-7871

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2009.5202738

Filename

5202738