Adaptive training of video sets for image recognition on mobile phones

  • Authors:
  • Erich Bruns;Oliver Bimber

  • Affiliations:
  • Bauhaus-University Weimar, Weimar, Germany 99423;Bauhaus-University Weimar, Weimar, Germany 99423

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present an enhancement towards adaptive video training for PhoneGuide, a digital museum guidance system for ordinary camera-equipped mobile phones. It enables museum visitors to identify exhibits by capturing photos of them. In this article, a combined solution of object recognition and pervasive tracking is extended to a client---server-system for improving data acquisition and for supporting scale-invariant object recognition. A static as well as a dynamic training technique are presented that preprocess the collected object data differently and apply two types of neural networks (NN) for classification. Furthermore, the system enables a temporal adaptation for ensuring a continuous data acquisition to improve the recognition rate over time. A formal field experiment reveals current recognition rates and indicates the practicability of both methods under realistic conditions in a museum.