A Survey on Mobile Landmark Recognition for Information Retrieval

Author

Chen, Tao ; Wu, Kui ; Yap, Kim-Hui ; Li, Zhen ; Tsai, Flora S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 May 2009

Firstpage

625

Lastpage

630

Abstract

The growing usage of mobile devices has led to proliferation of many mobile applications. A growing trend in mobile applications is centered on mobile landmark recognition. It is a new mobile application that recognizes a captured landmark using the mobile device and retrieves related information. This paper will present a survey on mobile landmark recognition for information retrieval. A general overview of existing mobile landmark recognition systems will be summarized. The techniques and algorithms used in the literatures, including content analysis of landmarks and classification methods for recognition, will be described.

Keywords

content-based retrieval; image classification; image retrieval; mobile computing; content analysis; image classification; information retrieval; mobile landmark recognition; Cameras; Cities and towns; Conference management; Global Positioning System; Image analysis; Image recognition; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Mobile handsets; Technology management; content analysis; content and context integration; image classification; information retrieval; mobile landmark recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware, 2009. MDM '09. Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4153-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3650-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MDM.2009.107

Filename

5089014