作者: Bernd Girod , Vijay Chandrasekhar , David Chen , Ngai-Man Cheung , Radek Grzeszczuk
关键词: Camera phone 、 Video processing 、 Mobile telephony 、 Wireless broadband 、 Multimedia 、 Mobile computing 、 Computer science 、 Image processing 、 Visual search 、 Graphics
摘要: Mobile phones have evolved into powerful image and video processing devices equipped with high-resolution cameras, color displays, hardware-accelerated graphics. They are also increasingly a global positioning system connected to broadband wireless networks. All this enables new class of applications that use the camera phone initiate search queries about objects in visual proximity user (Figure 1). Such can be used, e.g., for identifying products, comparison shopping, finding information movies, compact disks (CDs), real estate, print media, or artworks.