Tour Guide System using Augmented Reality: A Review
Umashankar Thakur1, Vaibhav Nagare2, Mita Shimpi3, Mubarak Pathan4, Nuzhat F. Shaikh5
1Mr. Umashankar Thakur, pursuing degree in Computer Science and Engineering, from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India..
2Mr. Umashankar Thakur, pursuing degree in Computer Science and Engineering, from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India.
3Ms. Mita Shimpi, pursuing degree in Computer Science and Engineering, from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India.
4Mr. Mubarak Pathan, pursuing degree in Computer Science and Engineering, from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India.
5Nuzhat F. Shaikh, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Computer Engineering, Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, Pune (Maharashtra). India.
Manuscript received on October 19, 2015. | Revised Manuscript received on October 27, 2015. | Manuscript published on November 05, 2015. | PP: 52-56 | Volume-5 Issue-5, November 2015 . | Retrieval Number: E2749115515/2015©BEIESP
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Abstract: One of the largest, most important and constantly growing industries in the world is, without doubt, tourism. Such rapid growth calls for enticing ways to engage tourists and keep them interested, which is a big challenge for the professionals, having to maintain standards and increasing expectations of tourists. Tools such as augmented reality (AR) hold a vast potential in attracting and retaining visitors. The rise in smart mobile devices only boosts this further as it becomes possible to have information and tour generation at one’s fingertips. In this paper, we first try to enlist all the limitations and challenges encountered while utilizing concepts of AR to develop a tour guide system. We describe various state-of-the-art AR applications that provide such service, having their own set of drawbacks, and we give a brief introduction to our proposed system. All the facts and literature we have surveyed and studies related to various aspects of developing an AR-based tourism system are presented in the paper, which include several methods and algorithms that can be used for image comparison required to recognize objects of interest.
Keywords: Augmented reality (AR), image comparison, tourism, mobile AR.