An image search for tourist information using a mobile phone

  • Authors:
  • Wichian Premchaiswadi

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Technology, Siam University, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Currently, Mobile phones perform like a personal computer. In searching for information, people generally use keywords or character sets to search for information using a computer or mobile phone. When using keyword to search, users have to define the appropriate keywords for things that they want to search for. In some cases, multiple keywords must be given in order to obtain satisfactory results. However, defining the appropriate keyword is sometimes difficult. This paper proposes a mobile application for searching travel related information by using images to search instead of keywords. The image used in this application is taken from a mobile phone camera and sent to the server. The Auto-correlogram and Color Different Correlogram (AC/CDC) algorithms are deployed in the image retrieval system. The images and travel related information are sent back and forth through the Internet by using Web-services. This proposed system could provide more convenience for users and/or tourists and decrease the restriction of searching information from a mobile phone through GPRS.