Mobile landmark guide system based on LOD and SURF

Abstract

In this paper, we present a mobile collaborative outdoor augmented reality system. The system will provide a user who captures image of a building facade with related introduction. The proposed system mainly consists of two major parts - annotation module and AR browsing module. Annotation module works with existing standards and linked data to allow users create annotations of the building. Annotation data in our system which only contains URI and metadata, such cluster ID, cluster centroid and the image feature vectors. When user using the system browsing the landmark in outdoor, the system first recognize the landmark and calculate the camera pose from the matching, and then the related introduction is retrieved from linked data through its URI. Experiments show that the proposed augmented reality system is efficient and robust in many cases.