Mobile travel guide using image recognition and GPS/Geo tagging: A smart way to travel

Abstract

In our current tourism system, whenever a tourist visits a monument or a famous spot, to know more about the place, he/she hires a guide. With the advancement in the technology, the role of the guide is being taken up by the different services and applications. The increase in the use of mobile phones has made it easier to provide different applications available to the tourists `on the go'. In this project, we are making an android based mobile application that can be used as a guide by the tourists. The main function of this application is to recognize a monument or a famous spot from the picture clicked/uploaded by the user and to provide detailed information regarding it. This is achieved by using open-cv for image recognition. It then displays the information that is associated with that monument. The information is available in the JSON database. It will also be able to point the location of that monument on the map.