Photo from history

Team:Zhaochun Ren

Ran XUEMax Ukhanov

Dmitry Ivashchenko

Topicality

Tourist

Solution lookup

Do not reinvent the wheel (use existing technologies and

services)

Make application easy to use

Save users from routine

information retrieval (maps,

books)

Solution

Building Tourist

Photo

Photo From HistoryHistorical

info

Server : A CBIR system on GPS

• What is CBIR system:• Content-based Information Retrieval System

Retrieval Process

Analyze the image content: Color, Local Shape, Texture

Find similar images in file system

Crawling and IndexingMachine Learning

Our Server retrieval process• Find similar images

from file system

• Refine using GPS

• Give the context with the right image

PHOTO

GPS position

Client part

Key features:

• Simple design

• Integration with social

networks (Twitter, Facebook)

• Possible to work without

GPS-module*

*could use the GPRS-positioning

Techniques behind the scene 1. Crawl images from the web:• Building photos with various angles • History description in Wikipedia and other

sources.• Positions of them (“Heritrix” is used in this

application)2. Index all Photos in one file System:• Using “Lucene” to do this indexing…

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